Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Isiah Leggett
I'm pretty new at this, so I started with a low-priority article. Need general assessment, including whether it follows general WP and project guidelines for style. Are there enough citations? What parts need to be expanded? Should there be more about family and personal life or should the emphasis remain on his political career? Mocko13 02:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
A good article so far. The style looks good to me. The article needs some more citations and interwiki links. I think the emphasis of this article should remain on his political career. Information on his personal life should be kept to the basics, such as whether or not he's married or has kids. The infobox could do with some more information. It might help if specific dates are given for some of the events described in the early life section. I'll help out. (Note: I'm a relative newbie around here too, so my recommendations may not be as good as those given by a veteran editor.) Galanskov 19:59, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
It's looking good so far, and I've upgraded the rating to B-class. I'll add my thoughts:
- You should add the birth date in brackets after the name. See the style guidelines for biographies for more information on standard formatting.
- During the 1970's - there is no need for an apostrophe in "1970's".
- He would return - keeping it simple, just leave it as "he returned" (at the moment, there's a mismatch of tense with the rest of the sentence).
- Be consistent in your wikilinking of dates (see here for the guideline). There are two basic rules to follow: if you have a month and a day, wikilink them together to allow user date preferences to set in (you can set in your preferences if you prefer August 10, or 10 August, for instance); and don't link years on their own unless it adds context. If there's a day, month and year, wikilink them all for date preferences. Hope you could follow that.
- The whole article is a low on references. Ideally, every fact you include can be cited to a source, but at least aim for one cite per paragraph.
- In the references, enter the accessdate as yyyy-mm-dd so it will be wikilinked and not come up as a redlink.
- The image may not fall under fair use - as it is a living person, it is replaceable. If you can't get hold of a freely licensed image, don't worry, but I'm warning you that the image may be deleted. If you can get hold of or create a freely licensed image then that's great and add it to the article.
Those are my suggestions on how to improve it; keep up the good work. Trebor 21:51, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for edit suggestions, made edits based on them. Going to keep the photo until it gets pulled. The article on Doug Duncan has one form the same source, which is why I went there. Mocko13 00:05, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- Please see automated peer review suggestions here. Thanks, APR t 02:27, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Previous reviewers covered the major problems. Some minor remarks:
- Per WP:MoS do not wikilink single years (e.g. 2006); only full dates (June 2, 2006).
- Don't you have the full date of his birth?
- "First Term as County Executive" looks a bit stubby to me. Can't you expand it a bit, analyzing the controversial issues you mention?--Yannismarou 08:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)