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I've listed this article for peer review because I hope that I can make this article a Featured Article. This article was recently promoted to GA and I was surprised while originally writing the article. I initially thought that Beverly White would be a short start class article, but I instead found that she was a very active person and deserved far more.

Thanks, Jon698 (talk) 12:11, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Comments from DanCherek

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  • You may want to get the signature vectorized as an SVG (the folks at the Graphics Lab may be able to assist) for a cleaner look in the infobox
  • "who would also become involved in politics" → "who also became involved in politics"
  • "Club which she served as president of" doesn't flow very well, can this be reworded?
  • The word "served" is used nine times in the lead, 10 times in the "Politics" section, and more beyond that; it gets a bit repetitive. Replacing many of the "served as" with "was" will help.
  • "she would at times be the only" → "she was at times the only"
  • Remove "the" before "Utah State University"
  • Cal Rampton image caption needs a period at the end since it's a complete sentence
  • Politics section: I mentioned above but most of these sentences are of the form "During the X, she served as Y." Some more variety in sentences would be good!
  • "She would serve in the state house" → "She served in the state house"
  • "required to prevent a primary" — should that be "runoff election"? Obviously there was a primary
  • "who had run a write-in" → "who ran a write-in"
  • "over sixty percent of the popular vote" — I don't think you need to specify "popular" as there is no separate electoral college–like system being run here
  • It would be good to give a little more background about the $50,000 debt controversy
  • "She aided in the creation of a satellite university" and "She aided in the election of Debbie Winn" — possible to be more specific here? What did she actually do?
  • Abortion section — it sounds like she had mixed views on abortion so I would make that more clear in the first sentence.
  • Typo in "Capital punishment" (not Capitol)

Nice article overall! If you have time, I also have a peer review open here for what I'm hoping will be my first FAC, and any comments would be appreciated. DanCherek (talk) 16:07, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Jon698: Want to make sure you saw the above comments. Z1720 (talk) 23:59, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I am closing this PR as inactive, as the nominator has not responded to the above comments. They are welcome to open a new PR after the above are addressed in the article, if appropriate. Z1720 (talk) 02:44, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]