Talk:John Allen (RAF officer)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk · contribs) 22:57, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Prelim

• Article is stable
• Images correctly licensed
• No duplicated links
• Earwig reports copyvio unlikely

Lede and infobox

• Link Second World War

• Linked in both places, you may have overlooked the one in the lead. Zawed (talk) 03:42, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

• Link sortie

• Done. Zawed (talk) 03:42, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

• Infobox says he was born on 2 July

• Oops, that was a typo. Zawed (talk) 03:42, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Early life

• Is Laurance a spelling error?

• I did a doublecheck on this when writing the article because, like you, I thought it was a typo but all sources I have with his middle name spell it that way. Zawed (talk) 03:44, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Second World War

• Link Second World War

• Done. Zawed (talk) 03:54, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

• "From mid-May" give the year

• Done. Zawed (talk) 03:54, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

• Give Deere his rank

• Done. Zawed (talk) 03:54, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

• "Messerschmitt Bf 109s fighters" sp

• Fixed. Zawed (talk) 03:54, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

• "the destruction of which was observed"

• Done. Zawed (talk) 03:54, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

• Link bail out

• Done. Zawed (talk) 03:54, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

• Link scrambled

• Done. Zawed (talk) 03:54, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

• "Allen is buried"

• Done. Zawed (talk) 03:54, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

References

• References look good.

@Zawed: Hi, that's all I have for now. Will await your responses. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 22:57, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

@Pickersgill-Cunliffe: thanks for the review, much appreciated. I have responded as above. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 03:57, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

@Zawed: Passing this article as satisfying the GA criteria. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 00:14, 28 December 2023 (UTC)