# Talk:Life of Samuel Johnson (Hawkins book)

I wanted to note that this is a discussion about the template at Template talk:Samuel Johnson. Ottava Rima (talk) 15:56, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

This review is transcluded from Talk:Life of Samuel Johnson (1787)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Mitch32(The Password is... See here!) 23:43, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Is it reasonably well written?
A. Prose quality: 

B. MoS compliance: 

Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
A. References to sources: 

B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary: 

C. No original research: 

Is it broad in its coverage?
A. Major aspects: 

B. Focused: 

Is it neutral?
Fair representation without bias: 

Is it stable?
No edit wars, etc: 

Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales: 

B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions: 

Overall:
Pass or Fail: 

Lead. Expand a bit, please.
Move the image in critical response to the top right of the section.
"owing to the perusal of three chapters in Hawkin's Life of Johnson." - If Hawkins was his last name, that would be a very bad grammar error.
Wikilinking would help :)
Expand biography a bit. If per se, parts of the quote were removed, I think a little more build up helps so it doesn't look like a small bit.
No sources since 1961? I question that.
I will put this on hold, you have 17 minutes, Ottava.Mitch32(The Password is... See here!) 23:43, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

The classical scholar Richard Porson wrote a particularly brutal review of Hawkins' book in the Gentleman's Magazine, the more brutal because it's written as ironical praise for Hawkins' spitefulness and inaccuracy. The only place I have found a copy of it is here, and you have to get to p. 450 of the PDF file to find it. I think it's worth quoting. Lexo (talk) 01:59, 8 November 2010 (UTC)