Talk:Agnes Inglis/GA1

GA review

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Nominator: Grnrchst (talk · contribs) 12:25, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: Dumelow (talk · contribs) 11:58, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Interesting subject, happy to take on reviewing this one - Dumelow (talk) 11:58, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your fast responses to my comments Grnrchst, looks good to me. Will pass this for GA - Dumelow (talk) 13:10, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing this! Your comments were very helpful. --Grnrchst (talk) 19:49, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

1. Well-written

Criteria: the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct; and it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation.

Resolved

Early life

• "She attended Sunday school, received her primary education at Clay grammar school and then went on to the Capitol High School."

I would use her surname at the start of a new paragraph. Maybe also replace one of the "she"s and "her"s later in this paragraph as otherwise she is not named at all.

Done. --Grnrchst (talk) 20:46, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

• " She also spent a single, brief year in higher education at the Abbot Academy in Massachusetts, but was forced to return home to care for her family"

If we've said it was a year long, I don't think we need to say "brief"

Removed. --Grnrchst (talk) 20:46, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

• "She then moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she volunteered to work at the YWCA[13] and as a Sunday school teacher"

Again, I'd go with "Inglis" instead of "She" here

Done. --Grnrchst (talk) 20:46, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

• "During this time, she grew more self-conscious about her unearned income, much of which had been extracted as rent from poor workers."

I found it a little unclear about where her income came from, I had assumed she inherited a chunk after her mothers death (and you talk later about " her inheritance") but towards the end of "Anarchist activism" you discuss an allowance from her family. Maybe it was a bit of both?

It was more that, after she'd spent most of her inheritance, her family kept her on a small allowance. I've attempted to clarify. --Grnrchst (talk) 20:46, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Anarchist activism

• " Goldman later paid tribute to Inglis in her autobiography Living My Life.[16]"

I think it would be worth giving the date of publication here

Added. --Grnrchst (talk) 20:50, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

• "She also passed out information about birth control, risking arrest"

Might be worth a little explanation here as to why, presumably it was illegal in the US at the time? Is this the Comstock Act of 1873?

Clarified that it was illegal at the time. Didn't want to mention the specifics of the Comstock Act, as it's not mentioned in the source (which takes it as common knowledge that it was illegal).

• "By the turn of the 1920s, she had retired from revolutionary activism and turned towards research"

Do we know in what field? Presumably on social matters?

This is discussed in the subsequent sentence. She wanted to learn about the eight-hour day movement. --Grnrchst (talk) 20:50, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Library curation

• "Her work as a librarian was directly motivated by her anarchist philosophy and left-wing politics"

Again, I would name her here, this paragraph does not name her at all. Likewise at the start of the next parapgraph, she is named only at the very end of it.

Done. --Grnrchst (talk) 20:52, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

• John Francis Bray is linked and introduced twice (once as a "socialist economist" and once as an "English Chartist")

Thanks for catching this! It was a relic of later additions. Went ahead and removed the first mention, as it's covered in more depth by the second one. --Grnrchst (talk) 20:52, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Legacy

• "Warner Rice, the head librarian at the University, did not fill her post despite having promised he would do so."

Presumably this was after her death as she doesn't seem to have retired. Maybe worth adding "at the time of her death". Also do we know who he promised this to? Was it to Inglis?

Attempted to clarify. Herrada seems to imply he promised this to Inglis, but doesn't explicitly elaborate that. --Grnrchst (talk) 11:37, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

• "He described her as a "pioneer" in radical archiving, at a time when "official institutions, among them libraries, frowned on the idea""

"Radical archiving" or the "archiving of radical material"?

The latter, changed. --Grnrchst (talk) 11:33, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

• "By 2017, the collection was the fasted-growing and most used library in the University of Michigan"

"fastest" is presumably meant here?

Yes, fixed. --Grnrchst (talk) 11:33, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

2. Verifiable with no original research

Criteria: it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline; reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose); it contains no original research; and it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism.

Resolved

• A date of birth is given in the infobox but is uncited and the article main text only gives a year of birth
  • I removed it from the infobox until I can find a source, as the cited sources only ever mention a birth year. Seems the birth date was added to the en-wiki article without a citation over a decade ago, by a long-inactive user (diff). If I find a source that verifies the full date, I'll add it back in. --Grnrchst (talk) 20:58, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

• Date of death is given as 30 January in the infobox and 29 January in the main text
  • Seems like this was an issue of sources giving different dates. Herrada 2007 said 29 January, while Herrada 2017 said 30 January. I went with the latter, as that's the most recent source by Herrada that I'm using, which may indicate there was a correction. --Grnrchst (talk) 14:58, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

• All sources cited appear to be reliable

• Spotchecks on sourcing:

"Together with Berkman, she organized a protest against the arrest of Thomas Mooney over his alleged role in the Preparedness Day bombing" checks out to Anderson 2017, pp. 230–231

"Inglis organized a series of anarchist lectures throughout southeast Michigan" checks out to Herrada & Hyry 1999, p. 8.

"He described her as a "pioneer" in radical archiving, at a time when "official institutions, among them libraries, frowned on the idea"" checks out to Weber 2017, p. 258.

"At her home on Wilmot Street, she hosted other social workers, family and students" checks out to Hyry 1996

3. Broad in its coverage

Criteria: it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).

Resolved

Looks to cover all aspects of her life in an appropriate level of detail

4. Neutral

Criteria: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each.

Resolved

I found no issues with WP:NPOV

5. Stable

Criteria: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute.

Resolved

No evidence of disputes or edit warring in the article history or talk page

6. Illustrated

Criteria: media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content; and media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.

Resolved

• A US public domain tag is required for File:Agnes Inglis signature.svg
  • Replaced with PD-signature tag; signatures are considered ineligible for copyright. --Grnrchst (talk) 14:54, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Yes, this looks fine for the US - Dumelow (talk) 07:58, 13 October 2025 (UTC)