Talk:Valerie Solanas

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Valerie Solanas/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Cirt (talk · contribs) 18:51, 15 October 2012 (UTC) I will review this article. — Cirt (talk) 18:51, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Good article nomination on hold

This article's Good Article promotion has been put on hold. During review, some issues were discovered that can be resolved without a major re-write. This is how the article, as of October 24, 2012, compares against the six good article criteria:

1. Well written?: Article is well written, with good structure.

2. Factually accurate?: A few issues here:

1. Early life = "Citation needed" tag, in 4th paragraph. This must needs be addressed promptly.
2. New York City and the Factory = "Citation needed" tag, in 3rd paragraph.
3. The shooting = Uncited paragraphs and sentences scattered throughout. Particularly 'quotations, quotes must have cites after them, even if this block of text is cited to the next appearing cite. Not just at end of paragraph, but also cites at end of each quote or at the very least each sentence where a quote appears.
4. The shooting - "Citation needed" tag, in 8th paragraph.
5. Solanas and Warhol = "Citation needed" tag, in 2nd paragraph.

3. Broad in coverage?: Good structure and flow throughout, however going forward for further improvements in quality after GA Review, I'd strongly suggest expanding some of the smaller subsections, as well as going for a peer review and soliciting input on WikiProject talkpages of relevant WikiProjects, and from the Guild of Copyeditors.

4. Neutral point of view?: Written in a neutral tone, however, I'd suggest expanding the Trial subsection.

5. Article stability? Upon check of article edit history and talk page history, no big 'ole disputes, but a few recent changes in edit history, please stay on top of this.

6. Images?: 2 images from Wikimedia Commons check out okay. 2 images of the subject of the article, both hosted on Wikipedia claimed as fair-use = was any attempt made to get free-use licensed images of the subject?

A few issues above, let's see if hopefully they can be addressed soon.

Please address these matters soon and then leave a note here showing how they have been resolved. After 48 hours the article should be reviewed again. If these issues are not addressed within 7 days, the article may be failed without further notice. Thank you for your work so far. — Cirt (talk) 15:10, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

GA passed

GA passed, thanks for such great responsiveness on the article's talk page. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 00:26, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your work and your patience. Nick Levinson (talk) 16:32, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Schizophrenic

We source she was schizophrenic and is relevant to the opening because it was diagnosed from the attempted murder. ♫ RichardWeiss talk contribs 15:07, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Your opening sentence mischaracterizes Solanas as a feminist, an author, and a schizophrenic. That's like describing somebody as a liberal, a poet, and a diabetic. The first two are political and career choices, the last is a condition that requires treatment. It's mixing apples and oranges.

If you wish to mention her schizophrenia, I think better ways to do it would be to describe her as a feminist and author who suffered from schizophrenia, or to mention schizophrenia in a second sentence. — MShabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 15:35, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Infobox

I do not see how 'Up Your Ass' could be classified as a 'notable work', though I can see why it might merit a mention in the article. Valetude (talk) 21:19, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Her Son

Why do we include the adoptive surname of her son? Irish Melkite (talk) 03:23, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

LEAD

I moved a lot of excess content out of LEAD and put here per WP:MOSLEAD, and WP:PRESERVE. If you can find some other place in the article it needs to be, then put it there. Anyhow, it should all be duplicated anyhow in the article already per policy as lead summarizes. Thanks Jtbobwaysf (talk) 21:49, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Solanas had a turbulent childhood, suffering sexual abuse from both her father and grandfather, and experiencing a volatile relationship with her mother and stepfather. She came out as a lesbian in the 1950s. After graduating with a degree in psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park, Solanas relocated to Berkeley. There she began writing the SCUM Manifesto, which urged women to "overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex."

In New York City, Solanas asked Warhol to produce her play Up Your Ass, but he claimed to have lost her script, and hired her to perform in his film, I, a Man, by way of compensation. At this time, a Parisian publisher of censored works, Maurice Girodias, offered Solanas a contract, which she interpreted as a conspiracy between him and Warhol to steal her future writings. Jtbobwaysf (talk) 21:49, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

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