Talk:Cassiobury House

Demolished

Why was the house demolished? Jason404 (talk) 03:39, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Apparently a collapse in agricultural income, taxation and the aftermath of World War I caused many landowners to go bankrupt. The articles on the British country house contents auctions and the destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain explore this topic. Preservation of historic properties is a relatively modern priority - in the early 20th century there was less concern about demolishing old mansions to make way for housing estates, bypasses etc. 11:38, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

1st Earl of Essex death

The recent addition of text about the death of the 1st Earl of Essex and Lawrence Braddon is all very interesting, but it really belongs in the article about Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex. It is biographical detail and is not really about Cassiobury House or Park. I think a sentence summarising his death is fine, but lengthy quotes from sources that have nothing to do with Cassiobury House. I am happy to move this over. Cnbrb (talk) 20:17, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Support for the reasons stated. Dormskirk (talk) 21:09, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

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GA Review

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Reviewer: Vami IV (talk · contribs) 08:30, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

   The writing of this article is generally passable, not great. Its prose is acceptable, but the lead is very very short and does not summarize the article as it should. I have made some minor corrections here and there, but was unable to find a date for the first sentence of the History#Beginnings section with the given citation.

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):

   It is on this hill that the article truly dies. Firstly, the in-line citation is very poor. Secondly, I ran this through the CopyVio machine and came up with 49% confidence that the article might plagiarize some of its sources or violate copyright. Closer inspection (comparisons) of the top source on the tool showed that some of them were red herrings. There are paragraphs that are very well cited, but the majority of the article is not.

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

   I'm not an expert in this area at all, and given the lack of citation I can't make further citation, so it looks to my untrained eye that this article passes here. While there is a bunch of unused material in citation #3 for example, it looks like it doesn't really apply to the article. Regardless, I would have found some way to work it into the article somewhere (Beginnings maybe?).

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

   I am not going to pass this article purely because of its poor in-line citation. The article's writing is decent but should be looked over for correct grammar, prose should improved, and the article's content should be revised so as to not so badly trip the CopyVio machine.

Thanks. Surprised on the citation front - it is absolutely awash with inline citation, but clearly it's got to be revised at some point. 14:34, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Notice of Beginning

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Inline Citation

So if anybody would like to make any suggestions as to how inline citation could be improved on this article, I'd be interested. As far as I can tell, the article is pretty well referenced with 54 inline references, so I'd like to know specifically where it is lacking. Cnbrb (talk) 11:06, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

I apologize for taking so long to reply because I didn't put this page on my watchlist. In-line citation means that, at the very least, each and every paragraph ends with a citation verifying the information within. I can't really adequately describe it, so I would advise checking out Featured or Good Articles and looking at their citation. Bodiam Castle, for example. For everything taken from a source, there exists a citation for it. –Vami_IV✠ 15:54, 17 June 2017 (UTC)