Wikipedia:Peer review/Airdrie, North Lanarkshire/archive1

Airdrie, North Lanarkshire
I would like to request that the article be peer reviewed to provide editors with areas for improvement. If it is possible a 'Quality Scale' rating would be greatly appreciated. Ixistant 22:21, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Just a couple comments: -- Underneath-it-All 04:01, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * The lead should be expanded (see WP:Lead)
 * Much of the article does not have inline citation, although it does contain a list of references at the end. All claims should be cited within the article (see WP:Cite)
 * Captions for photos are usually not bolded
 * Many of the sections should be expanded


 * 1) What does the Gaelic name mean?
 * 2) 'year of the Battle of Arderyth[1](Airdrie). This was a battle between Rydderych The Bountiful' Slight repetition. 'This was fought between...'
 * 3) The inline citation does not show up in the references section. I can only repeat comment 2 above by Underneath-it-All The article can never be much better that Start class without this.
 * 4)  The history of Airdrie between the Battle of Arderyth and AD 1162 is unclear, - or is it in fact simply unknown? This is hard to believe but if so, you could be more specific.
 * 5) The public buildings section should come later not in the middle of the history. ' the Town House (now the town clock) in 1856.' What you mean is not clear until later. 'now known locally as the Town Clock'?
 * 6) 'Chonology' is a typo
 * 7) 'In those days travelling was lonely and dangerous.' Why lonely?
 * 8) 'Due to the fact it was "independent", as it had all the powers of a Royal Burgh.' Dodgy syntax
 * 9) 'but instead due to an influx of residents from the Highlands and predominantly Ireland.' Poor wording. 'instead due to an influx of residents, predominantly from Ireland but also the Highlands'? put links  into this for Ireland and Scottish Highlands.
 * 10) 'An evolution of the rise in population and industry prompted for more accessible water supplies.' ?
 * 11) 'Until mid 1800s,' word missing
 * 12) 1920 onwards - you could say a bit more about the major companies in the earlier period e.g. Stewarts and Lloyds, Bairdmores etc. Airdrie Public Library, is repeated here for some reason. There are, or were various other public buildings of note e.g the Public Baths.
 * 13) Future - without references and some explanation this just looks like daydreaming. Expand it or remove it.
 * 14) The labour party's monopoly on Monklands does not mean you can omit mentioning the affiliations of its fine politicians e.g. Karen Whitefield.
 * 15) You omit to mention the historic Catholic/Protestant rivalry in the area. The Temperance movement was strong once too.
 * 16) Scobbie, J.K. - Stray apostrophe here.

I will also provide a rating on the article Talk page. Hope that's helpful, Ben MacDui (Talk) 19:15, 11 April 2007 (UTC)