Talk:Lady Isle

Progress
Excellent progress on this article. With a bit of work it would be a credible Good Article candidate. If a more detailed assessment is of value drop me a note to my talk page or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scottish Islands. Ben MacDui (Talk) 17:15, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * We'll need to correct the references before nominating this as a good article. If anyone wants to help do this, and doesn't know how, please read Citing sources. If you still have questions, leave a message on my talk page. Lurker  (said · done) 13:25, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Other issues -
 * TOC - in wrong position
 * Geog: - round not square brackets, and tedious though it is, consistency is needed with imperial and metric i.e. each mention should have both, with one or other consistenly first.
 * Evidence from Old maps needs lower case 'O'
 * John Adair in his 1686 A mape of the west of Scotland containing Clydsdail, Nithsdail, Ranfrew, Shyre of Ayre, & Galloway. (manuscript),
 * why 'manuscript' ? and the comma looks peculiar after the period
 * In 1745 Moll used the name lady Isle. should be 'Lady Isle', unless you mean 'lady Isle' (sic).

Should be All refs should have the page title, publisher and retrieval date - and in this case the exact page url, not the generic list, which a non-Scot might be unable to find the specific page from.


 * Written history needs a copy edit - quicker to do than to explain. I'll attempt it asap.
 * I will also attempt to provide an 'Auto Peer Review'. This may be able to fix a few issues and suggest others that I will print out below. More to follow but I am short of time at present. Ben MacDui (Talk) 16:05, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

APR
The following suggestions were generated by a semi-automatic javascript program, and might not be applicable for the article in question. You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, Ben MacDui (Talk) 16:04, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Lead. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.[?]
 * Consider adding more links to the article; per Manual of Style (links) and Build the web, create links to relevant articles.[?]
 * Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates), months and days of the week generally should not be linked. Years, decades, and centuries can be linked if they provide context for the article.[?]
 * Avoid including galleries in articles, as per Wikipedia:Galleries. Common solutions to this problem include moving the gallery to wikicommons or integrating images with the text.[?]
 * Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), there should be a non-breaking space -  between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 4 pound, use 4 pound, which when you are editing the page, should look like: 4&amp;nbsp;pound.[?]
 * Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), please spell out source units of measurements in text; for example, the Moon is 380,000 kilometres (240,000 mi) from Earth.[?] Specifically, an example is 2.3 ha.
 * As per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates), dates shouldn't use th; for example, instead of using January 30th was a great day, use January 30 was a great day.[?]
 * Per Manual of Style (headings), headings generally do not start with articles ('the', 'a(n)'). For example, if there was a section called  ==The Biography== , it should be changed to  ==Biography== .[?]
 * Per Manual of Style (headings), headings generally should not repeat the title of the article. For example, if the article was Ferdinand Magellan, instead of using the heading  ==Magellan's journey== , use  ==Journey== .[?]
 * Watch for redundancies that make the article too wordy instead of being crisp and concise. (You may wish to try Tony1's redundancy exercises.)
 * Vague terms of size often are unnecessary and redundant - “some”, “a variety/number/majority of”, “several”, “a few”, “many”, “any”, and “all”. For example, “ All pigs are pink, so we thought of a number of ways to turn them green.”
 * Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.[?]


 * 30 January? Is that even English? Or just another example of creeping Americanism on wikipedia... --MacRusgail 12:33, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

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