Talk:Free Derry/Automated peer review

Free Derry

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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.^[?]

• Lead expanded to two full paragraphs. Scolaire (talk) 17:35, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

• Consider adding more links to the article; per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links) and Wikipedia:Build the web, create links to relevant articles.^[?]

• 3% of 4000 words = 120 links. ~100 found; ~20 added. Scolaire (talk) 16:23, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

• Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates), months and days of the week generally should not be linked. Years, decades, and centuries can be linked if they provide context for the article.^[?]

• The only possibly inappropriate links I can find are 1969 and 1972 in the lead sentence. Delinked. Scolaire (talk) 10:51, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

• You may wish to consider adding an appropriate infobox for this article, if one exists relating to the topic of the article. ^[?] (Note that there might not be an applicable infobox; remember that these suggestions are not generated manually)

• Cannot find an applicable infobox. Any suggestions would be most welcome. Scolaire (talk) 16:23, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), headings generally do not start with articles ('the', 'a(n)'). For example, if there was a section called ==The Biography==, it should be changed to ==Biography==.^[?]

• "The rise of Republicanism" renamed "IRA resurgence". Scolaire (talk) 10:51, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), headings generally should not repeat the title of the article. For example, if the article was Ferdinand Magellan, instead of using the heading ==Magellan's journey==, use ==Journey==.^[?]

• I believe "the third Free Derry" is acceptable here. Scolaire (talk) 16:23, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

• Please make the spelling of English words consistent with either American or British spelling, depending upon the subject of the article. Examples include: armour (B) (American: armor), offence (B) (American: offense), organize (A) (British: organise), organise (B) (American: organize), recognise (B) (American: recognize), ization (A) (British: isation), isation (B) (American: ization), travelled (B) (American: traveled).

• "Organized" is the only such word I found - replaced. Scolaire (talk) 16:23, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

• Watch for redundancies that make the article too wordy instead of being crisp and concise. (You may wish to try Tony1's redundancy exercises.)
  • Vague terms of size often are unnecessary and redundant - “some”, “a variety/number/majority of”, “several”, “a few”, “many”, “any”, and “all”. For example, “All pigs are pink, so we thought of a number of ways to turn them green.”

• "A number of", "several" and "many" seem to be the biggest offenders here. Several of those have been removed. Scolaire (talk) 08:03, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

• As done in WP:FOOTNOTE, footnotes usually are located right after a punctuation mark (as recommended by the CMS, but not mandatory), such that there is no space in between. For example, the sun is larger than the moon [2]. is usually written as the sun is larger than the moon.[2]^[?]

• Two found and corrected. Scolaire (talk) 16:23, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

• 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. Thanks, APR _t 09:23, 12 September 2008 (UTC)