Talk:William Levett (rector of Buxted)

Comment
I have converted a lot of the references to the standard author, title, booktitle, publication format. However there are a number of articles that have some of these missing. I have indicates these issues by, which are only visible when editing. There are more Google Books references that need hard copy citations. The correct pages and citation should be available in the bibliography on the Royal Historial Society's website. The name of the printer and publisher is normally unnecessary in the case of serials (save in cases of ambiguity), but thyey do need volume, year and pages. There are a few statements that are perhaps based on a weak or derivative source, for example the commetns on wrought iron guns -- where there is modern literative. I am surprised that there is no citation of: Or at any rate the last of these, which is clearly relevant and probably not overtaken completely by Awty & Whittick. This may well be the source for some of the derivative statements in tertiary (or worse) works. I regard this as a substantial article, but one that probably still needs some tightening up to become a good article. Peterkingiron (talk) 00:40, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * B.G. Awty, 'Cast-iron cannon of the 1540s', Sussex Arch. Coll. 125 (1987), 115-23
 * B.G. Awty, 'The Arcana family of Cesana as gunfounders and military engineers', Trans. Newcomen Soc. 59 (1987-8), 61-80
 * B.G. Awty, 'Parson Levett and English cannon founding' Sussex Arch. Coll. 127 (1989), 133-45

Big problems in this article
This article hardly reads as a wikipedia article at all. For a biography, it contains tons of non-biographic information that, while it is interesting, does not belong here and instead should be in some other article about cannon making in England. Furthermore, the article contains excessive praise on pretty much everything covered in this article, and especially the subject himself, is praised into the heavens. Omegastar (talk) 00:05, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I am inclined to agree. This is a relatively recent article.  I had hoped that its author would read my previous commetn and amend the article in the light of it.  The article needs pruning of extraneous material (which is coverd in other articles), the provision of subheadings, wikifying, and other changes.  However, I do not have time to do everything that I would like.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:52, 13 December 2009 (UTC)