Talk:County Borough of Leeds/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Pyrotec (talk) 16:26, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Starting review. Pyrotec (talk) 16:26, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Initial comments

• After a quick couple of read-throughs this article appears to be at or about GA-level; however, the WP:Lead does need a bit of work done on it. I will now go through the article section by section, but leaving the Lead until last.
• At this point I will be mainly concentrating on "problems", all the good points, etc, will be covered later in my Overall summary. Pyrotec (talk) 16:57, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

• Origins -
  • Manorial borough 1207–1662 -

• Ref 4, which is invoked twice in this subsection and five times in total, is a book. The relevant page or page numbers should be quoted in the citations.

Y Turns out the book was an edited volume, and the quotes come from chapters by two different authors (one of whom was the editor). Hopefully I have formatted the citations correctly. I wasn't sure if the book should be put in a "Bibliography" section and then format them as "in Fraser (1980)".Lozleader (talk) 19:49, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

• County borough 1889–1974 -

• The following statement needs a citation: "The borough, while independent of the West Riding County Council for local government, remained part of the county for purposes such as the administration of justice and lieutenancy".

Y Done with a quote from the legislation. There doesn't appear to be a specific citation template for legislation, or at least I can't find it.Lozleader (talk) 19:49, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll check them now. Pyrotec (talk) 20:15, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

• WP:Lead -

• This is intended to act as both an introduction to the article and a smmary of the main points. As such, I consider that it needs, perhaps, a minor copyedit.

• This article is about the County Borough of Leeds, so the lead should start off along the lines:- The 'County Borough of Leeds was .... That probably means a reordering of the current lead, e.g. The County Borough of Leeds was formed in 1835 from ....(the ancient borough of Leeds).
• The lead currently starts off: "Leeds was a local government district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, from 1835 to 1974." The next three sentences start with, or continue with, an "it"; and it is unclear (sorry about the pun) whether "it" refers to Leeds (the local government district), Leeds (the ancient borough), a government district, or the County Borough of Leeds (I've discounted the West Riding County Council); and whether "it" changes from sentence to sentence.
• As this article is about The County Borough of Leeds why is the lead almost exclusive talking about a "district", surely it is a borough (Municipal, then County, then County Borough and City)?
• To labour the point somewhat, the lead needs to be brought into line with the article.

Pyrotec (talk) 20:15, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Overall summary

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

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A well-referenced, well-illustated history of the County Borough of Leeds.

1. Is it reasonably well written?

   A. Prose quality:

   B. MoS compliance:

2. Is it factually accurate and verifiable?

   A. References to sources:

   B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:

   C. No original research:

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

   A. Major aspects:

   Well-referenced.

   B. Focused:

   Well-referenced.

4. Is it neutral?

   Fair representation without bias:

5. Is it stable?

   No edit wars, etc:

6. Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?

   A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:

   Well-illustated.

   B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:

   Well-illustated.

7. Overall:

   Pass or Fail:

Congratulations on the quality of the article I'm awarding GA-status. Pyrotec (talk) 17:38, 30 October 2009 (UTC)