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Fremantle Prison
Very informative article. I copyedited it, so partial self-nom. Neutralitytalk 20:16, 22 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Support: I personally enjoyed reading the article, and never questioned its factual accuracy with its abundance of relevant references. Written very well. &mdash; ßottesiηi Tell me what's up 20:27, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose: Lead is too short. Batmanand | Talk 22:11, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose: Agree with above, the lead needs to be expanded to at least one paragraph and one and two sentence paragraphs need to be adapted to ensure quality prose. If these issues are fixed and no other major qualms are presented I will most likely switch to support. Good luck. michael talk 04:16, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * weak oppose -- was going to suggest taking the dull grey image from the info box and swaping with the entrance image but it is/was a prison. The section on notable prisoners expand to 2-3 sentences on each including time period they where there. ie
 * Brandon Abott is a convicted of bank robbery 1989(?) sentence to 20yrs. escaped by fabricating a Prison Guards uniform and wlked out through the front gates in 1992. He spent 2 and 1/2 years on the run as Australia most wanted criminal.
 * The articles is directly about the building not the inmates but that list is just a little distracting Gnangarra


 * I would say the article is about the institution rather than the building alone. So I have nothing against mention of notable prisoners. But perhaps it could be prosified instead of being left as a list. - Mgm|(talk) 18:08, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment You should explain the image of the 6th commandment...otherwise it appears it was randomly stuck in there. --Osbus 18:30, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * In particular, the caption should make it clear that it is a picture from the prison. It would probably also be better to have it in the text where the chapel is mentioned. JPD (talk) 14:25, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Gallery is not serving any useful purpose in the article, which already links to Wikimedia Commons.  If integrating the additional images within the text doesn't make sense, the pointer to Commons serves those readers looking for images.  Jkelly 23:20, 23 April 2006 (UTC)