# Talk:Freedman's Village


### Freedman's Village
Created this article a few months ago, which has thus far been rated as B-class.  Aiming to get it to GA or beyond going forward.  Looking for feedback on prose, sourcing, and general content.
Thanks, Wikipedian1234 (talk) 15:39, 13 August 2025 (UTC)


#### Comments from Z1720
Comments after a quick skim:

The article relies a lot upon "Bestebreurtje, Lindsey (2024)" as a source. I recommend looking for additional sources on Google Scholar, WP:LIBRARY, archive.org, or databases that you have access to through your local library system.
No uncited text concerns.
Recommend replacing px with upright for images per MOS:UPRIGHT
Hope this helps. Z1720 (talk) 04:51, 16 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I'm aware of a few free sources from the US National Park Service pertaining to Arlington Cemetery that describe the history of this settlement, so I'll start by exploring those.  How many would you recommend I use for an article of this scope/size?  Would appreciate if you could point me to any best practices. Thanks! (Wikipedian1234 (talk) 18:28, 16 August 2025 (UTC))
I found a few relevant journal articles on JSTOR. Will be adding more material from them to the article over the next week. (Wikipedian1234 (talk) 16:08, 17 August 2025 (UTC))
I've finished adding more sourced material from 3 different journal articles, which put together represent a substantial amount of new information on the Village's history. Also added some more images from Wikimedia Commons and another external link to an Arlington National Cemetery pamphlet on the Village. I'll get to the feedback on the image formatting today (Wikipedian1234 (talk) 14:59, 20 August 2025 (UTC))
Replaced px with upright in all images (Wikipedian1234 (talk) 03:22, 23 August 2025 (UTC))

This review is transcluded from Talk:Freedman's Village/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Nominator: Wikipedian1234 (talk · contribs) 15:18, 23 September 2025 (UTC)
Reviewer: MisawaSakura (talk · contribs) 16:12, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Starting review. MisawaSakura (talk) 16:12, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
Images-most to these are fine. But I have a question about the one of the historical marker. I seem to recall something I saw in some article's review about historical markers, at least in USA. I can't recall the details, so I'm pinging Nikkimaria, who is very active at FAC in regards to images. Nikki, is this image ok? Sidenote, Nikkimaria, there are no statues in this article, but what about photos of statues in USA? MisawaSakura (talk) 16:19, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
The US does not have freedom of panorama except for buildings, so any photo of something 3D and non-building (such as a statue) has to account for two potential copyrights - that of the photograph, and that of the original work. This usually means that any such image has to have two copyright tags. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:06, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
She didn't specify anything about the marker so I'm letting this go. For one  thing, it's not art and two, a search I did reveals Virginia historial markers aren't copyrighted. MisawaSakura (talk) 00:32, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
Refs-quality refs and consistently formatted. MisawaSakura (talk) 16:22, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
Copyvio-Earwig's tool says possible violation on this: [1]. Can you try to cut down the similarities? You can run the tool yourself from a link in the tools section of my talk page. MisawaSakura (talk) 16:24, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
Ran the tool, and it appears that much of the 40.8% similarity metric is based on the quote from John Syphax's 1888 letter to Secretary Endicott (see pp. 4-5), which Arlington National Cemetery's article includes in full. I don't believe use of the excerpt, which I would imagine is in the public domain at this point, would constitute a copyright violation. Otherwise, the highlighted similarities seem to be superficial (e.g., use of phrases like "newly freed African Americans"). Wikipedian1234 (talk) 15:34, 28 September 2025 (UTC)
Prose-This sentence threw me for a loop "Following their eviction, which was complete by 1900, many former Village residents resettled in Alexandria County's existing black enclaves and established new black settlements in the area during the 1880s and 1890s." ... maybe put the 1880s-1890s part before the 1900 part. MisawaSakura (talk) 16:29, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
Changed the sentence structure, let me know if that works (Wikipedian1234 (talk) 15:42, 28 September 2025 (UTC))
Dates- the dates in the article are like this: December 7, 1941, but the retrieved dates in the refs are like this: 7 December 1941. They should be consistent. (Note this affects December 7 and 9 too.) MisawaSakura (talk) 16:39, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
Thanks for the comments!  I'll take a look at these over the weekend. (Wikipedian1234 (talk) 00:44, 27 September 2025 (UTC))
Done Wikipedian1234 (talk) 15:45, 28 September 2025 (UTC)
Good now. It didn't dawn on me that the speech was PD. Everything else is fine now too. Congrats!MisawaSakura (talk) 16:09, 28 September 2025 (UTC)`
Thanks! Appreciate the review and feedback. Wikipedian1234 (talk) 17:23, 28 September 2025 (UTC)