Talk:Adelaide Ironside

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by TarnishedPath (talk) 06:43, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

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Adelaide Ironside

• ... that a painting by Adelaide Ironside (pictured) modelled its depiction of Christ on the Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi?

• Source: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/74.1992/

• • ALT1: ... that Adelaide Ironside (pictured) trained as an artist in Italy in the hope of returning to Australia to paint frescoes on the walls of public buildings? Source: Pesman, Ros (2003). "In Search of Professional Identity: Adelaide Ironside and Italy". Women's Writing. 10 (2): 307–327. doi:10.1080/09699080300200201. Ironside intended to return to Australia and put her talents to the service of her native land, and in the public sphere, in large paintings for public buildings. In particular, she wanted to fresco the walls of the newly founded University of Sydney.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Grimskär

5x expanded by MCE89 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

MCE89 (talk) 13:00, 26 February 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice, thank you; good to go with the original hook (I don't think the source cited for ALT1 above is that used in the article, but a minor quibble, and ALT1 has references too), Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 13:39, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Suggestions

1. "She died on 15 April 1867 in Rome of tuberculosis" feels a little awkward with the date in the middle and it may be good to add her age at death. The rest of the article is written so nicely I couldn't figure out an effective way to write that (if it is deemed a good idea).
2. Is there a potential wikilink for her father's occupation commission agent? I am not sure what that is, but maybe the source elaborates.

Commander Keane (talk) 11:23, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for these great suggestions! I've made both changes. MCE89 (talk) 07:36, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

GA review

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.

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

Nominator: MCE89 (talk · contribs) 13:19, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Reviewer: Crisco 1492 (talk · contribs) 14:24, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose, spelling, grammar, and understandability): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable, as shown by a source spot-check.

   a (reference section): b (inline citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have non-free use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Written comments

Prose and comprehensiveness

• She painted several portraits, including portraits - Any way of avoiding repetition of "portraits"

  Done — I went went with She painted several portraits—her subjects included the Prince of Wales and William Charles Wentworth—along with paintings... --MCE

• J. A. Wilson - Any sources available for his full name?

  Unfortunately I've come up completely empty. He's described in Oxford Art Online as a portraitist, but I can't find anything else confirming who he was. --MCE

• Accademia dei Quiriti - As an institutional name, I don't think this should be italicisized

  Fixed. --MCE

References

Review based on this version.

• Ref 1 and 3: Inconsistent treatment of book sources. The ADB is being treated as a book (has the original 1972 year of publication) but no publisher or OCLC/ISBN. The Companion has both. If the ADB is being treated as a website, it is inconsistent with the other web source (13) as it has no retrieval date.

  Expanded the ADB ref to a full book citation --MCE

• Spotchecks

• 1c - Supports poetry in Sydney press influenced by Lang
• 1e - Supports first Australian-born artist to study overseas
• 1h - Supports
• 3c - Oxford Art Online access is down at the WL. Could you provide a quote?

  I assume you mean 4c (the Oxford Art Online ref)? If so the quote is: Ironside left Sydney in April 1855 and became the first Australian-born artist to study overseas. The quote from the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature for 3c is While in Rome she was granted an audience with the Pope and became a member of the exclusive Society of Artists with access to the Pope's private gallery (plus from the ADB: In 1861 Pope Pius IX received her in private audience and allowed her to study fresco painting in Perugia and to copy works in the Papal collections.

• 5 - DOI doesn't work as a link (returns a "Page not found" error). Not supported. Source says "Between 1853 and 1855, some twenty of her poems appeared in The People’s Advocate, most on the theme of liberty for the Australian colonies", meaning that it could have been more or less. "Approximately" would fix that.

  Changed to "approximately". I'm not too sure what's going on with that DOI - the DOI itself seems to be correct, but there's something on the Taylor & Francis site that's causing it to redirect to the wrong place. Swapped it for a URL, which seems to work for me. --MCE

• 7b - Supported
• 11 - Supports the Accademia dei Quiriti.

Conclusion

Basically there. I have a request for a quote, a minor mismatch between source and text, and some prose comments. Other than that, this is Good. Holding. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:43, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the review Crisco 1492! I've responded to all of your comments above. MCE89 (talk) 15:31, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

• Thanks muchly. I am happy to pass this. Congratulations! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:36, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

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.