Talk:Wood End, Kingsbury, Warwickshire/GA1

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Beloved Freak 22:26, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
Seems to be neutral
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
Can't see any problems here
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Image has appropriate license, although perhaps some better images could be found. One of the church maybe?
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
Too many problems to list at this time.

I'm afraid that this article has quite a long way to go until it is at GA standard.

Prose/Manual of Style

There are big problems with grammar and punctuation. Looking at the "history" section, several sentences here are missing capital letters at the beginning, and a full stop is missing. In the "name" section, there are capital letters which shouldn't be there.
An example of a sentence that needs work: "There is a small coop and post office on Tamworth Road the is a small garage also on Tamworth road"
You have short paragraphs; basically, sentences on their own which should be joined together to form larger paragraphs, because they are about the same thing. As it is, the whole article reads like a list of loosely connected points.

References/Verifiability

Many more sources are needed. Inline citations are desirable, although not required for GA. However, there are just not enough sources to support the information in the article.
What makes Pergo a realiable source? What makes achurchnearyou.com a reliable source?

Broad in coverage?

I'm afraid quite a bit more information would be needed to meet this criterion. I would recommend comparing to other articles on villages that are already GA or FA. An example of a recent FA is Little Thetford. An example of a GA is Chew Magna.

As I say, I recommend comparing with other GAs and FAs. Try looking in Category:GA-Class UK geography articles and Category:FA-Class UK geography articles. When the above issues are fixed, I would also recommend submitting the article to peer review before nominating for GA again. If you are finding it difficult to spot grammar mistakes yourself, it might be worth asking another editor to copyedit it for you, perhaps at the Guild of Copy Editors, although, I would wait until you've added some more content first. Look for some more sources to use, like books that mention the village. Let me know if you have any questions.--Beloved Freak 22:26, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]