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I've listed this article for peer review because I believe it is close to the FL standards. What is missing?

Thanks, Nergaal (talk) 05:31, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This needs quite a bit of work - but I'm interested in helping out! Firstly, lead is pretty short. I've seen shorter, but 4 lines is a bit. I also unbolded the title, since it's not the same as the actual article name. I won't comment on anything else in the lead, since it can be reworked once it's expanded, and we can go from there.

Under each subheading, you'll need more information than just a brief line. Also there's a citation needed template... this article needs way more citations, particularly on dates and places.

Why are all the prose for each section italicised?

The references are... bad. A random mix of homemade websites, with a few good ones. They need to all be consistently reliable. These were British monarchs... there's tons of books about them, on Google Books. I'll go through and add references for each monarch using a reliable source. There's much work to be done before this can be featured, but it's something that can be achieved I think. Good luck! how do you turn this on 13:53, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Choess (talk)

Largely agree with the previous comments. I'd suggest expanding by discussing both the geography and a brief outline of the politics leading up to the Union.
I would change the coat of arms; it's anachronistic in comparison to the list. See coats of arms of the United Kingdom this Commons category, which has the several Royal coats of arms used during 1707–1801.
The italicization does seem odd.
I would suggest going to a library and looking for a good print source for birth and death dates, spouses, etc. and making uniform references to that rather than to the scattering of websites. Fraser's "The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England" would probably be good for this. 18:26, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Note for self: look at List of English monarchs Nergaal (talk) 02:46, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]