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[edit] Scottish Parliament

Self nomination. I believe it is as comprehensive as it can be, well referenced and stable. Has been through peer review with no major problems. Thanks Globaltraveller 15:40, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Support Object - Insufficient inline citations. There are huge large swaths of text here without a single reference. Think of the poor reasearcher... he can't reference wikipedia itself, so he needs to reference what we reference. But if we don't specify where we got the information, he can't do that at all, and wikipedia becomes far less useful. Fieari 17:47, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
    • I agree, but it would be courteous if you could go through the article and flag up all the places where you think a reference is needed using {{cite needed}}. - Samsara (talk · contribs) 20:11, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
      • I have added a significant number of additional citations to the article. Thanks Globaltraveller 20:18, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
        • Yep, good work! Support now. Fieari 18:14, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. Text is great. Large number of publicity photos are probably fine, status of Image:GeorgeReidSNP.jpeg needs to be resolved. Image:Edinburgh Scottish Parliament01 2006-04-29.jpg needs to be rotated to remove tilt (hint: the buildings have no tilt in reality), or replaced with one of the many images in commons:Category:Scottish Parliament. If a temperature and brightness increase were applied to Image:Scottish Parliament.jpg, it might be suitable. - Samsara (talk · contribs) 01:36, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
    • Getting images for this article has been very difficult. There are plenty of building photographs on Wikicommons but either way they belong on the Scottish Parliament Building article rather than repeated here, ad nauseum. I'm not sure there is a great deal I can do about the status of the George Reid photograph. As I'm sure you'll appreciate there are no free use images of him. The only way to rectify this situation is to obtain a fair use image (probably from the parliament website), which I will try - and I'll see what I can do about the photograph of the building - even if it is just a photograph of a part of the building. Thanks for your comments Globaltraveller 11:02, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Comments Some weird wikilink issues among other things:
    • Members are elected for 4 year terms... -> "four year terms"
    • 'Scotland during the late 1960's[8] fueled demands Ugly placement of that citation...can it go at the end?
    • Does "oil" really need a wikilink?
    • ...the resulting It's Scotland's oil campaign of the Scottish National Party (SNP) resulted in..
    • in part because the government of the United Kingdom was controlled Why is "United Kingdom" wikilinked here when it was already wikilinked two paragraphs above?
    • a referendum of the Scottish electorate Again, "referendum" is already wilinked two paragraphs before.
    • A few full dates are not wikilinked.
    • which is made from silver and inlaid with gold panned Why are silver and gold wikilinked?
    • including £100 million spent on bronze cladding Why is bronze wikilinked here?
  • A scan of the blue wikilinks of the entire article might be helpful. Just look for odd links that are not relevant to the context of the article. Gzkn 02:31, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
    • I've amended the specific issues you've raised. I've also removed some other duplicate wikilinks and redundant ones as well. Thanks Globaltraveller 11:02, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Support; the point I'd raise is that although I'd agree that a link to oil is a bit redundant, a link to North Sea oil might not go amiss. Laïka 14:13, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Support, well done. —Nightstallion (?) 22:44, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
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