Talk:Kimmie Meissner

message: WikiProject Biography Assessment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 19:06, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: I've removed a claim that "Meissner became the second U.S. lady to ever win the novice and junior national titles in two consecutive years.", because it is untrue.  Other ladies who have done this include at least Michelle Cho (1992/93), Lisa Ervin (1990/91), Kathryn Adams (1982/83), Jill Sawyer (1977/78), and probably others going back in earlier years.  Dr.frog 21:15, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Novice and junior titles

message: Shouldn't there be a (non-copyrighted) picture somewhere of Kimmie? Emily (Funtrivia Freak) 01:33, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That picture of her next to the table... maybe there should be a caption or something? It doesn't really add much to the article if there's just a random picture of her without explaining the context.Ychennay 22:28, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added the caption. It was from the 2005 World Junior Championships long program. There really should be a more recent picture somewhere (Circa 2006 Worlds, perhaps?). –-  kungming·2 (Talk) 05:50, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is my photo of Meissner. Unfortunately, I haven't been to any events where she competed since 2005. A more recent photo would be ideal but most are unfree and of poor quality. She doesn't look <I>that</I> different ... yet. :) Vesperholly 10:07, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: I don't really need to get into a discussion about which word "should" be used. But if you insist on using "lady", at least be consistent. The intro paragraph first uses "woman" and then "lady", which does not make sense. --Fang Aili talk 18:46, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "lady" v. "woman" 

message: I made a few other small changes concerning the introduction and combining paragraphs in the personal section.  The layout guidelines prefer not having short paragraphs.
1. Prose-Check, 2. Verifiable-Check 3. Coverage- Check 4. Neutral- Check 5. Stable- Check 6. Images- Check
Suggestions for improvement: Some expansion of the personal section, some added detail to events in her career (much improvement made), and some section concerning her skating skills or style.User:calbear22 (talk) 00:47, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: GA approval

message: Hi everyone, I've just finished re-writing, re-vamping, and updating this article.  It passed as GA 12 years ago, and no longer fulfilled the GA criteria, so I took it on, much like bios of other skaters I've edited.  I feel it's necessary to point out a few things.
* Sources were a challenge for this article.  I think that most of the sources are reliable enough for a GA.  I used many of the sources used in other skating bios: Golden Skate for event reports, U.S. Figure Skating (Ice Network for older, archived articles) for event reports and some competition results, ISU sources for competition results.  I had to use some paywalled sources, such as The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, and most notably, the Baltimore Sun.  The Sun makes up for 36 of the total references used, or almost 1/4th, and out of that, reporter Candis Thomson wrote 21 (over 58%, she must have been put on the Kimmmie Meissner beat, lol).  I think the reason is obvious, Kimmie is from the area, of course.  I also think that reporters were focusing and writing about other skaters at the time--Michelle Kwan, Sasha Cohen, Johnny Weir, Evan Lysacek, and they didn't realize her importance at first.  The variety of sources increased after her triple axel, but it went down again towards the end of her career.  
* Images: I personally don't think that any article should have too many images; one per section, depending on the topic.  The issue with this skating bio is that there are only a couple of images in Commons of Kimmie on a podium, so there aren't many images in the Programs and Results sections.  I'll leave the decision of adding other images to other editors.  In other words, does anyone think that some of her other available images should be placed in those sections?
* My fellow editors, how is the tone of this article?  Is it balanced, or overly harsh regarding Kimmie's "inconsistency", or too positive?  I tried to reflect what the sources state. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 03:04, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-write/re-vamp