Talk:Wells, Somerset/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Arsenikk ^(talk) 10:00, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments

• The lead could easily be somewhat longer.

• Expanded— Rod ^talk 13:04, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

• Throughout the whole article, there are a lot of one-sentence and one-line paragraphs. These should be merged to create paragraphs with a decent lengths. At their current length, sections like 'economy', 'transport' and 'culture' could simply be merged to a single paragraph.

• Done

• There are several unreferenced statements, and almost whole sections (e.g. economy) are unreferenced.

• Refs added

• In this instance, England should probably be wikilinked. There has been a lot of criticism of overlinking counties, but for a geographic locale, it is highly plausible that some readers may want to read about the country it is located. This does not mean that counties further down in the list should be linked (like France or Germany).

• Done - although I thought the consensus was that England is a well known term throughout the world & linking wasn't appropriate.

• The question to ask is: is it plausible that any reader of this article would want to look up England, based on the context of this article? For an article about a city in England, this is highly plausible. For a train station, perhaps not. For a by-sentence mention in an article about bicycles, probably not. There has always been a lot of disagreement about this, even at featured level, and there is certainly no consensus, although perhaps one side may have a majority in some instances.

• The lead focuses around the city status, rather than summarizing the article. Terms like "although" should not be used like this, and the whole mentioning of a letter from the queen in 1974 is very off topic. This all belongs in the history section.
• "second smallest" should have a hyphen.

• Done

• You write "the City", although 'city' is undoubtedly a common noun and since it is not part of the official name of Wells, I cannot see it can be capitalized.

• Done

• Titles such as "bishop" are only capitalized either if a) directly in front of the name (Bishop Robert) or 2) part of a full title (the Bishop of Bath and Wells).

• Done

• As the article covers a British topic, use British date formatting, i.e. DD Month YYYY. See WP:Dates.

• Do you mean ion the referencing or an I missing something?

• Think I've spotted & fixed this one now.— Rod ^talk 12:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

• Except WWII, no non-railway history from the 20th century? I would presume this would have been a period with large population growth and industrialization.
• MEP needs to be written out, not an acronym. I doubt an average American or Australian knows what a MEP is (although the British probably would, we are writing for a world audience here).

• Done

• The economy section mentions tourism. Are there any numbers?

• Not that I can find

• The economy section fails to explain what Wells "lives off". Is Wells a suburb of a larger metropolitan area which people commute to, or is it a regional center that is the source of commuting? Any industry (only so many people can make cheddar cheese), service companies etc? Any of the companies with major facilities or based in Wells notable? It seems like education is a big thing, so perhaps mention the employment of teachers?

• The tourism supports a lots of jobs, bars, restaurants B&Bs etc. The article does say the travel to work area - I suspect others travel to Bath & Bristol (I know a few but that is OR) but I can't find any sources which say this or any numbers for teachers etc

• Don't need to link 'listed building' more than once.

• Done

• 'West Country Carnival' is mentioned in the text, so it should not be in the see also section.

• Done

• Civic ties section should probably just be part of the 'governance' section, not its own subsection.

• Done

• IMDB is generally not a good source, and should only be used for non-trivial, non-plot, non-review issues where no other sources exist. Are there no better references out there?

• Not that I can find & it is only used to say it was a filming location.— Rod ^talk 11:16, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Placing article on hold. Arsenikk ^(talk) 10:00, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

I will pass the article. Interesting place, I will surely try to visit it if I ever pass through Somerset. If you are considering featured status, I think that the economy section needs a bit more fill for those people, but it should be sufficient for GA. Arsenikk ^(talk) 13:44, 24 April 2010 (UTC)