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Jonita Lattimore

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I've listed this article for peer review because it needs some cleanup. GA1 reviewer insists that there are a lot of issues. He may have some valid points. I am willing to address concerns.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:17, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:17, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment: This article was quick-failed at GAN on 15 May. A main reason for its failure was the inadequacy of its prose. However, it was immediately renominated at GAN, without any effort to tackle the prose issues which, at a quick glance, seem considerable. Examples:-

• Poor grammar and sentence construction, such as:-
  • "Lattimore performed with the Chicago Children's Choir and trained both voice and instruments, with an emphasis on piano, as a youth on Chicago's South Side."
    • Now fixed.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:47, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
  • "Her first decade as a touring professional saw her become one of, if not the, leading operatic soprano in Chicago"
    • Example fixed.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:37, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
• Clumsy and repetitive wording: "Upon graduation in 1987, she attended The University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music on the William Warfield scholarship, a scholarship named after her mentor, William Warfield. It was a vocal scholarship."
  • Fixed.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:50, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
• Non-sequitur: "She was raised in the Pill Hill neighborhood of Chicago's South Side.[2] She also played the trumpet."
  • Rearranged.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:42, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
• Other oddities: "Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute"; "Later that year in an opera on Carlota of Mexico, she sang an aria."; "Beethoven's, Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, op. 125, 'Choral'"; "Benjamin Briten" etc
  • Not sure I get this whole point.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 01:15, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
• Masses of factual snippets packed one after the other, without any attempt to adopt the required summary style. There is a cleanup banner in the article. referring to this problem.
• The redlinks: at least 25 of them, many looking highly unlikely to result in articles.
  • I guess, I don't know enough about opera to say what articles to expect. I have delinked about half of the redlinks.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 00:11, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

I feel that some attempt should be made to deal with some of these matters before the peer review, which, as the WP:PR page makes clear, "is intended for high-quality articles that have already undergone extensive work." Brianboulton (talk) 23:18, 22 May 2010 (UTC)