Talk:Richard Gavin Reid/GA1

GA Review

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Hello. I'll be doing the GA review for this article. Here are some suggestions for improvement:

• WP:LEAD: The lead is merely supposed to summarize the main points of the article. For an article this size, it should only be about two paragraphs.

• I'm not sure I agree; WP:LEAD says that an article under 15,000 characters should have a lead of one or two paragraphs; this one is ~28.5KB, which is "around 32 kilobytes", the size of article for which the lead should be two or three paragraphs. Technically, I suppose, this one's four, but that's only because I placed the last sentence into its own paragraphs because I thought it popped better that way. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 02:21, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

• What is the source used for the electoral record? It needs to be cited.

•  Done Sarcasticidealist (talk) 02:21, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

• The endash needs to be used in the number ranges in the references.

•  Done Sarcasticidealist (talk) 02:06, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

• Ref 7 needs an accessdate (today's date is fine to use if the link still works).

•  Done Sarcasticidealist (talk) 02:06, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

That's it for now. The article will remain on hold for seven days to address these issues. Nikki311 01:56, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Okay. I agree with you on the first point. For some reason, when I was looking at the article size, I thought it said ~20.5. Clearly my eyes are going with age. :) Anyway, everything looks good, so pass. Nikki311 00:13, 8 October 2008 (UTC)