Talk:Luton/Archives/2007/January
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Re-write
Having read though the article today there are many disjointed facts stated. In places particularly the opening paragraphs this does not really flow terribly well. The intro probably should be cut with much of the info dropping down the article. GazMan7 16:33, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
I have started to re-organise the article, any ideas/suggestions/help gratefully appreciated.GazMan7 10:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
GA Fail
- {{Fact}} tags
- Expand lead to two paragraphs
- Too many short stubby section with one or two sentences, and no reference
- The first section has two images squashing all the text, move one down.
- References come after punctuation, not before so [6]. should be .[6]
- Don't wikilink solo years, ex 1235
- Trivia is unencyclopedic and needs to be removed or merged with the rest of the text
- basic prices published, external link in the text
- Local media, external links in the text
- Local attractions, don't list articles that don't exist
- External links come after references
- References aren't formatted properly, please check {{cite web}}
- References 17-20 are not references
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- Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Lead. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.[?]
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- Please reorder/rename the last few sections to follow guidelines at Wikipedia:Guide to layout.[?]
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- There are a few occurrences of weasel words in this article- please observe WP:AWT. Certain phrases should specify exactly who supports, considers, believes, etc., such a view.
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- Please provide citations for all of the
{{fact}}s.[?] - Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.[?]
You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Needs a lot of work to be a GA, M3tal H3ad 11:17, 25 January 2007 (UTC)