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James Ludington was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
January 21, 2018	Good article nominee	Listed
February 26, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 1, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that James Ludington never lived in Ludington, Michigan – the town that bears his name?

Current status: Delisted good article

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Attribution[edit]

Text and references copied from William Rath to James Ludington, See former article's history for a list of contributors. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:55, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Text and references copied from James Ludington to William Rath, See former article's history for a list of contributors. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:43, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Review of sourcing[edit]

Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315

This article is a bit of a WP:V mess with a lot of text that initially failed verification in the cited sources, but with some info that can be found in other sources. My sense, based on what little I can see, is that the article is POV and puffed up by way of what it omits. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:51, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your additional insight and editing would be welcome. Fix the problem; don't just fix the blame.

Did you obtain the sources from the library? If you didn't, saying they failed verification seems a stretch. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:59, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Have you read WP:PDEL? I did fix everything I could, and based on the ongoing CCI, socks doing the same, and Pdel, AGF on offline sources is out the window, and we could stub the article. I'm not doing that in case someone else wants to attempt a rewrite. What I did find is a mess of failed verification, info later found in other sources, and information left out that probably creates POV. I've done all I can here, including adding sources that did verify text where the sources used did not, and spent over an hour doing that, which is a lot of time to invest in articles where the original author and socks are known to breach copyright and misrepresent sources. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:06, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment[edit]

This article is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 and the Good article (GA) drive to reassess and potentially delist over 200 GAs that might contain copyright and other problems. An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of articles en masse, unless a reviewer opens an independent review and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information about the GA status of this article, the timeline and process for delisting, and suggestions for improvements. Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Possible copyright problem[edit]

This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:11, 24 February 2023 (UTC) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:11, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Removed GA nomination[edit]

I've removed the GA nomination. It wasn't nominated correctly -- it looks like it was done manually instead of following the instructions at WP:GAN/I. However, the main issue is that the instructions require the nominator to consult the main contributors. Here because of the clean up that has had to be done on the article that means asking SandyGeorgia's opinion. In addition I see the nominator, Ludington Historian, has no edits to the article and only a handful of edits overall, so it seems unlikely they are sufficiently familiar with Wikipedia to successfully nominate an article for GA. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 09:42, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]