Talk:Sutton Court/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: TLSuda (talk · contribs) 20:01, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

I will be taking this review on and I look forward to reading this. I should have both my overall review and my prose review up shortly. Cheers,  TLSuda  (talk) 20:01, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I wanted to apologize. I do my reviews off-wiki and then copy them over. This time I must've forgot when I finished as I thought I already had. I'm just getting to it today. Thanks for your patience. Cheers,  TLSuda  (talk) 21:54, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Overall review
GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria


 * 1) Is it reasonably well written?
 * A. Prose is "clear and concise", without copyvios, or spelling and grammar errors:
 * Some run-on sentences, some prose questions, see prose review below.
 * B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists:
 * 1) Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
 * A. Has an appropriate reference section:
 * B. Citation to reliable sources where necessary:
 * There are some places that are not sourced at all.
 * C. No original research:
 * Some unsourced places may be WP:OR. See below.
 * 1) Is it broad in its coverage?
 * A. Major aspects:
 * B. Focused:
 * 1) Is it neutral?
 * Fair representation without bias:
 * 1) Is it stable?
 * No edit wars, etc:
 * 1) Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
 * A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content:
 * B. Images are provided if possible and are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:
 * 1) Overall:
 * Pass or Fail:
 * Needs some work. See the below prose review.
 * 1) Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
 * A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content:
 * B. Images are provided if possible and are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:
 * 1) Overall:
 * Pass or Fail:
 * Needs some work. See the below prose review.
 * Pass or Fail:
 * Needs some work. See the below prose review.

Lead

 * Sutton Court is a large English house remodelled... "Large" is a meaningless word. You could include the type such as you did for the 15/16th century manor house.
 * The house is at Stowey...near to the villages of Bishop Sutton and Stowey. Is the house at Stowey or near the village of Stowey? Very confusing.
 * Over the centuries... What centuries? Since when?
 * This same sentence is a run-on sentence. Consider condensing the information or bringing to two full sentences.

History

 * The original tower or keep of a fortified house... Throughout the rest of the article you never mention "keep" so I would remove it from here.
 * Is the building originally a tower, or a tower that was part of a house? In the lead you mention the "14th century fortified tower" but here you wrote of it like it was part of a house.
 * A length of the original embattled wall survives. This is the first you mentioned of this wall. Is it relevant or notable? If so, what wall is this? We need more information.
 * ...owned by the Protestant sympathiser Sir John St Loe, MP and High Sheriff of Somerset. "MP" whilst being common in your tongue, has very different meanings in other English-speaking cultures (including mine across the pond). I would suggest saying Member of Parliament, like you do later, at least this first time. If you wanted to shorten in for the remained of the article, that would be fine if you added (MP) after the first use.
 * Sir John St Loe was a fiend... A fiend or a friend?
 * This same sentence is a run-on sentence. Consider condensing the information or bringing to two full sentences.
 * John St Loe was buried in the local Church of St Andrew, Chew Magna. Was he buried in the church or at the church?
 * (probably poisoned by his younger brother) As that sentence is sourced to a hard source that I do not have access to, I cannot verify if that comes from the source. If it does, it needs to be spelled out who says that he was "probably" poisoned and the parenthesis need to be removed.
 * He introduced a theory of rock... is a run-on sentence. Consider condensing the information or bringing to two full sentences.
 * Life at Sutton Court has been described by John St. Loe Strachey in his autobiographical book The Adventure of Living in 1922. Is this relevant at all? It seems like it is a random sentence thrown in there. You could incorporate this information if you were saying that "John St Loe described ...blahblahblah... in his book...." but otherwise remove this sentence.
 * The last paragraph has no source and looks like original research. This needs to be sourced.

Architecture

 * The first paragraph has only one source listed. Where did this information come from? It looks like original research.
 * To the north of the servants wing are an old stables... remove "an"
 * These have now been converted into separate dwellings. Seems like original research without a source.
 * A curtain wall to the north of the house with a gazebo is also listed. I'm not from your side of the pond, but I believe this is in reference to a Listed Building. Can you clarify the sentence as such, maybe by saying it is also a Grade II Listed Building or something?

Estate

 * Tenant farmers leased the majority of the land and during most of the 20th it was used for dairy cattle, sheep and pigs. Add the word "century" after 20th.

Reference review

 * As the first three sources are all from the same website (just different pages) the references should all look the same.
 * Reference 6 should include the creation date of August 2003.
 * Reference 13 ISBN is 0393330133
 * Reference 14 ISBN is 0571056466
 * Is reference #18 a reliable source? I cannot tell because the page never loads for me.
 * References 25 & 26 are the same and should be combined.


 * Thanks for the review, no worries about speed I thought you might be busy after taking on the review. I have attempted to address the issues highlighted above. If there are other changes needed please let me know.&mdash; Rod talk 09:40, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me. Good job, and I am happy to promote this article to GA-status. Congratulations!  TLSuda  (talk) 21:48, 2 June 2014 (UTC)