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Joseph Berrios
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because I intend eventual GA.

Thanks, Hugh (talk) 03:47, 6 January 2012 (UTC)


 * You should check the output of the "disambig links" and "external links" checkers, BTW. Allens (talk) 21:16, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Brianboulton comments-
 * Lead needs expanding; it should be more than a brief introductory statement. Per WP:LEAD it should summarise the article. One newspaper's summary of Berrios should not be the substance of the lead.
 * done Hugh (talk) 06:31, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Is his date of birth, as distinct from the year, not on record somewhere?
 * done Hugh (talk) 05:19, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Structure: Rather too many short sections/subsections. Some, e.g. "Business and political use of government facility" appear to contain fairly incidental information which doesn't warrant a separate section
 * done Hugh (talk) 05:19, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Inappropriate section titles: some are way to complex, e.g. "County Board of Ethics investigation into excessive political contributions from property tax appeal attorneys". Just the first five words would be adequate. The general rule is to keep all such title succinct, and there are others that could be trimmed
 * done Hugh (talk) 05:19, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Some inappropiate capitalisation in section titles. e.g. "Early Political Career" should be "Early political career". Check for other instances
 * done Hugh (talk) 05:19, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Tendency to over-cite, evident in the use of citation strings for referencing what seem like fairly routine facts. Examples: "Days after taking office, Berrios hired his son, sister and Jaconetty to work for him, bringing them over from the property tax appeals board."[39][40][41; "One day later, Pikarski resigned."[51][52][53]; "Berrios is President of an insurance agency, J B Insurance - Consulting Inc. with an office in downtown Chicago."[70][71][72]. There are plenty of others
 * yeah, but they are needed to demonstrate proportion to coverage in RS, i'd like to leave this for now, this is BLP for an active pol, we anticipate a barage of deletes including refs
 * Some attention is required to reference formatting, in particular with regard to retrieval dates for online non-print sources. In some cases dates are indicated, but it is not clear if these are retrieval dates. Also, non-print sources should not be italicised (see, for example, Ref 19).
 * done Hugh (talk) 06:31, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Ref 72 returns a dead link message.
 * fixed Hugh (talk) 05:19, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Some of the content seems decidely off-topic. For example, this: "Thomas G. Lyons was a veteran 45th Ward committeeman who served as a lawmaker, lawyer and lobbyist and headed the Democratic Party of Cook County for nearly 17 years.[10] Lyons announced his retirement on January 9, 2007. Democrats scheduled a February 1 meeting in Chicago to fill the vacancy.[11] Lyons died Friday, January 12, 2007, at age 75 in an Evanston nursing home of complications from paralysis, the result of an inflammation of the spinal cord." That could be condensed to a single line; we don't need Lyons's clinical details.
 * fixed Hugh (talk) 06:04, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I have not carried out a detailed prose check, but I suggest you look at this, or get in an uninvolved editor, with a view to eliminating repetitions such as "Berrios ran unopposed, and at the age of 30 Berrios became the first Hispanic American to serve in the Illinois General Assembly."
 * fixed Hugh (talk) 06:04, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note also the number of times Berrios's name occurs in the short "Early life and education" section.
 * fixed Hugh (talk) 06:04, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Also, maybe reconsider some informal phrasing: Berrios "landed" a job; "mushrooming", etc. Not a major issue, though.
 * done Hugh (talk) 06:04, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

I hope these comments are helpful. As I am not able to watch peer reviews individually, please feel free to contact me if you wish to raise anything arising from this review. Brianboulton (talk) 16:01, 30 January 2012 (UTC)