Wikipedia:Peer review/Omaha Claim Club/archive1

Omaha Claim Club

Any suggestions appreciated - I'm looking to nominate the article for WP:FA, and need to know what it needs to get there. Thanks. – Freechild (BoomCha) 10:14, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

I read the first one-third of the article. A few pointers:

• Avoid using brackets in quotes. In the first sentence, if the original said, "to encourage", quote it verbatim and introduce with the words <in order "to encourage...">.
• Try to write a longer, more substantial lead section. Featured articles often have a lead section of two to three developed paragraphs.
• In the sentence that says what happened in 1834, you made a mistake in the grammar. The sentence fragment needs to be fixed and clarified.
• Last but not least: your link to claim club is red. Do you have information on the general phenomenon, or was the Omaha Claim Club unique? The answer would provide context for people who live outside your hometown. Shalom ^Hello 05:08, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Automated review

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• Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Lead. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.^[?]
• Consider adding more links to the article; per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links) and Wikipedia:Build the web, create links to relevant articles.^[?]
• Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates), months and days of the week generally should not be linked. Years, decades, and centuries can be linked if they provide context for the article.^[?]
• This article has no or few images. Please see if there are any free use images that fall under the Wikipedia:Image use policy and fit under one of the Wikipedia:Image copyright tags that can be uploaded. To upload images on Wikipedia, go to Special:Upload; to upload non-fair use images on the Wikimedia Commons, go to commons:special:upload.^[?]
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• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), there should be a non-breaking space -   between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 12 miles, use 12 miles, which when you are editing the page, should look like: 12 miles.^[?]
• Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Build the web, years with full dates should be linked; for example, link January 15, 2006.^[?]
• There are a few occurrences of weasel words in this article- please observe WP:AWT. Certain phrases should specify exactly who supports, considers, believes, etc., such a view.
  • apparently
  • might be weasel words, and should be provided with proper citations (if they already do, or are not weasel terms, please strike this comment).^[?]
• The script has spotted the following contractions: didn't, if these are outside of quotations, they should be expanded.
• Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.^[?]

You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, DrKiernan 13:56, 26 July 2007 (UTC)