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Kirkby

Previous peer review

I've listed this article for peer review because the article has changed alot since the last peer review and I want to see what others think and where the attention should be directed in the sense of future edits.

Thanks, -- Jade ^(Talk) • they/them 12:38, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

From Tim riley

Just spotted this. I hope to give you some comments in the next day or so. Tim riley talk 19:04, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

I enjoyed this article. A few comments and suggestions:

• "Kirkby has been known for; its links to Liverpool F.C" – unexpected semicolon.
• "It is believed that Kirkby was founded around 870 AD, due to archaeological evidence" – this reads oddly. It is the belief, not the foundation, that is due to the archaeological evidence, but that isn't what the sentence says. Something on the lines of "Archaeological evidence indicates [or suggests] that Kirkby was founded around 870 AD" would be clearer (and shorter).
• "Kirk-by derives from the Old Norse kirkja and byr (believed to be of Danish origin), meaning "church" and "settlement" or "village"" – I have checked in Ekwall's Oxford Dictionary of Place Names and this is right enough but it could do with a citation here.
• "the Molyneux family were made Earls of Sefton" – the whole family weren't made earls.
• "much of its remaining housing stock were slums" – "much" with a plural verb looks a bit odd.
• "newly-developed "over-spill" estates" – two points here: you don't want the hyphen in newly-developed and the OED and Chambers Dictionary both make "overspill" a single unhyphenated word.
• "He was preceded by … Harold Soref (Conservative, 1970–1974) and Harold Wilson (Labour, 1950–1970)" – This puzzles me. Soref's constituency was Ormskirk and Wilson's was Huyton. Did Kirkby have a boundary change?
• "Kirkby Sports College Center for Learning" – does it really use the American version of "centre"?
• "The most popular football teams are Liverpool and Everton" – alphabetical order might seem more impartial, unless there are compelling reasons to put Liverpool first.
• Services: The first three paragraphs lack citations.
• Sources: I don't know whether you have GAN/FAC in mind, but if you have, bear in mind that in some respects IMDB is not regarded as a reliable source for Wikipedia articles.
• Duplicate links: links to other articles should normally be limited to one apiece in the main text. At present there are duplicate links to Earl of Sefton, ROF Kirkby, Morrisons, the East Lancs Road and Church of England.

I hope you find some or all of these points useful. – Tim riley talk 09:36, 5 April 2022 (UTC)