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Ian Duhig

Lead

I recently edited the lead paragraph for the article. Ian Duhig has lot more relevance in the poetry community than the article details, in 2014 he was a judge for the T. S. Eliot Prize. The lead for the article before my edit did not give any important info concerning Ian Duhig's legacy as a poet or notability for being selected as a judge for such a prestigious reward. Ian Duhig's article lead only mentioned before the date he was born and that he is a British poet.

Structure

The article features several sections about his works. The life section is well written and provides plenty of info, making sure to only put the important info, keeping it short and clean. However, the rest of the article links to his works and awards but provides no context or synopsizes for his most important and notable works. The reviews tab is awkwardly structured and seems to be nothing but copy and pasted quotes from several websites. The article does feature many separate contents of the poet's works, awards, and reception. Giving it a solid layout, but not much content in between.

Balance

While the article features the necessary contents to describe the important aspects of a poet's life, it does not have a great balance between linking his works and awards and describing the significance of each one. His "Reviews" tab features some reviews about him as a poet himself and one about a work of his.

Neutral Content

The content does remain neutral in his "Life" section and continues to remain neutral only giving a reviewed opinion for the "Reviews" tab.

Reliable Sources

The sourcing is horrible. A good 85% of the awards do not have any citations to them. The "Poetry" tab does provide an ISBN number for each of his works, but his "Anthologies" tab only features one. Some of the citation links are dead, https://www.arvon.org/p121s620.html used for reference number five leads to a 404 page stating the page cannot be found or may have been deleted, although, its not like the link would have been helpful anyways because the website is used for booking courses and retreats for a writer's house. Most of the citation references do not follow the guidelines for citing; featuring no publisher, article title, date written/founded, or author's name. Reference number seven doesn't even link to the supposed "The Guardian" article and did not punctuate the publisher correctly. One of the external resources links to a website that features a short work of his among other artists, although the website is formatted horribly, looks like a blog, and provides no sourcing to the excerpt; it is better than the other external resource link that leads to yet another 404.