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Reviewer: Ian Rose (talk · contribs) 10:30, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know why but I've always loved the name of this place, and I haven't even visited it. Will aim to review by the weekend at least... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 10:30, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Toolbox check

  • No dab links
  • ELs seem okay

Prose -- copyediting as usual so pls check I haven't misunderstood anything; outstanding points/queries:

  • "Historians Beric Morley and David Gurney believe this to be "one of the finest of all Norman keeps", and its military utility and political symbolism have been extensively discussed by historians." -- just a suggestion but any chance of one of the "historians" being replaced by "academics" or something else, to avoid repetition? Green tickY fixed Duffit5 (talk) 18:15, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • "an upwardly mobile Anglo-Norman noble" is one of the most quaintly anachronistic expressions I've read on WP but it's a great form of shorthand so feel free to leave it and we'll see if reviewers at ACR/FAC object... ;-)
  • Two "would have been"s in quick succession -- can we reword one as "may have been" or "is believed to have been" or some such? Green tickY fixed Duffit5 (talk) 18:15, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Does "anti-Semitism" generally include a capital? I'd have thought not but may be wrong...

Up to 14th Century, more later... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 04:11, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  • Resuming, "impressive", as in "impressive, timber-framed, brick kitchen", sounds a bit opinionated to me -- can we simply say "large" or something like that?
  • "a new set of buildings were" -- I'd generally expect it to be "was" to agree with the singular "set", but in BritEng I think you treat nouns denoting groups as plural, yeah?
  • "one of the murals tower along the walls" -- doesn't sound right grammatically, has one of us missed something?
  • "the rights to the castle changed hands privately several times" -- intrigued, does "privately" mean "secretly"?

Structure/comprehensiveness/referencing -- seem perfectly adequate to me as an admitted non-expert on fortification articles (although I know the basics about this one from my book on English castles, which memorably describes the keep as "a hulking brute").

Supporting materials -- infobox looks okay; I'd have thought that the following images needed a tag re. country of origin (Britain presumably) as well as the US:

Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 01:51, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]