Talk:John Thomas Parry

If we are to believe what we read in this draft, one "Peabody, Atlas" wrote a number of its sources spanning a period from the late 19th century until just weeks ago.

I looked into the first of these that I happened to notice: Peabody, Atlas (2025-01-31), English: North Wales Chronicle. May 26th 1888. A reporter visits Mr Parry's studio and describes several paintings, retrieved 2025-01-31. This is poppycock. If I assume that the retrieval date is correct (and I have no reason to doubt this), then an accurate description would be "Bethesda: Art." North Wales Chronicle. 26 May 1888. Retrieved 2025-01-31.

(Quite why it's being hosted at Commons is not obvious, but anyway it came with plenty of irrelevant material and was misdescribed there too. I have, I hope, fixed those. I invite the uploader, Atlas Peabody, to do the same on Commons for the other files misattributed to Atlas Peabody, and to categorize them too.)

Atlas Peabody (or anybody else who might want to submit this draft) should provide as much accurate information about each cited source as is known. They should not perpetuate fiction about any of these. -- Hoary (talk) 05:27, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

I think this draft was (at least partially) AI-generated, which would explain these incorrect references. jlwoodwa (talk) 03:30, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

The article was not AI-generated, and all references are genuine. Any citation formatting issues were due to my initial unfamiliarity with the Wikipedia Visual Editor and the referencing process, but these have now been corrected. I'm happy to clarify or improve anything further if needed. Atlas Peabody (talk) 23:59, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the detailed comments. To clarify, the historical newspaper clippings are available via the British Newspaper Archive but are behind a paywall, so I uploaded them to Commons to make them accessible and citable. I mistakenly listed my name ("Atlas Peabody") in the source field, not realising how this would be interpreted, I was simply the uploader of the image, not the author of the original newspaper article. This confusion was due to my unfamiliarity with the Wikipedia Visual Editor and Commons metadata conventions. I’ve now corrected the citations to reflect the proper publication titles and dates, and I appreciate your help in improving the draft Atlas Peabody (talk) 01:09, 6 May 2025 (UTC)