Talk:Demophon of Athens

Demophon of Athens was nominated as a Philosophy and religion good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (December 24, 2023, reviewed version). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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GA Review[edit]

Unsuccessful. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:53, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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

Reviewer: AirshipJungleman29 (talk · contribs) 00:40, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I will take this review. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:40, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly, this article is far away from meeting GA criteria 2 and it meets quickfail criterion 1. The uncited material in the article is not the problem: rather, it is the fact that the article relies near-completely on 2,000 year old classical authors, who are not WP:RS. The entire article needs to be rewritten with a focus on modern scholarship. Harding 2006 is a good start, but there needs to be more. Because of this reliance on ancient authors, there is some original research (see citation 12: "However, Plutarch (Theseus 34) makes Laodice mother of Mounychus (others call her son Munitus) by Demophon, not Acamas"), and the topic is presented in a rather "in-universe" manner. References should be made to the opinions of classicists (see Gilgamesh as a good GA example). Feel free to renominate once the issues are fixed; ping me if you have any questions. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:53, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.