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Gleneagles Hotel, Torquay

 * ... that the Gleneagles Hotel (pictured) was the inspiration for the British sitcom Fawlty Towers?
 * Reviewed: Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013

Created by The C of E (talk). Self nominated at 08:17, 6 January 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg It's fine for me. However, I'd change the blurb since it only inspired one episode. Not the whole series. --Japanesehelper (talk) 03:44, 7 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg Calling for a new reviewer to recheck this nomination. The review doesn't say what aspects of the nomination were reviewed, and if the hook is incorrectly believed to be inaccurate (in which case this shouldn't have been passed), I can't trust that the rest is correct. (The hotel was the inspiration for the entire sitcom; further, it is actually mentioned by name in that one episode, though just as a rival hotel, not as the show's inspiration.) Finally, as this is an article about an existing hotel, I don't understand why the text doesn't mention its current affiliation as a "Best Western" hotel; this is basic information, and enough to hold up approval, in my opinion. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:52, 7 January 2014 (UTC)


 * The hotel was the inspiration for the whole series (i.e. it was a hotel with a rude owner, and every episode of Fawlty Towers features a hotel with a rude owner), so the hook is correct. What the first reviewer meant when he/she said "it only inspired one episode. Not the whole series" is that it was only mentioned once in the whole series, which is quite a different thing. Ericoides (talk) 07:27, 7 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg Full review still needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:53, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Article is new enough, long enough, adequately sourced. Hook ref is verified and cited inline. As Ericoides and the sources note, the hotel inspired the sitcom and the manager inspired the show's protagonist, so the hook is fine. However, there is close paraphrasing in the article. I removed some of it, and would appreciate the page creator taking care of the rest. While you're not copying the sentence structure of the sources, you are using the same words. These examples can be rewritten in your own language:
 * Source: The Gleneagles first took paying guests in 1963. It was opened as the Gleneagles apartments under the ownership of Donald Sinclair.
 * Article: It first opened to paying guests in 1963 under the management of Donald Sinclair.
 * Source: Torbay Council in Devon decided it would be against its tourism policy to replace the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay with a block of 25 flats
 * Article: In October, Torbay Town Council rejected the application, claiming that it would be against its tourist policy
 * Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 00:28, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I've changed the words.  The C of E God Save the Queen!  ( talk ) 08:19, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Thanks. Everything checks out now. Good to go. Yoninah (talk) 13:46, 16 January 2014 (UTC)