Talk:Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead

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Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. Reviewed version: February 24, 2007

[edit] GA failed

According to the GA critieria, I have failed this article for not having any inline citations. Although this is not a full requirement, it does establish the verifiability of the content in the article which is one of the criterion. Go through the article and for every sentence you find that may be questioned, add an inline citation to it. Look to GA/FAs for examples. Also, it would probably be best to break some of the headings up into subheadings to make it easier to search through the table of contents. If you have any questions please contact me on my talk page. Keep up the good work and be sure to add inline citations before renominating. --Nehrams2020 09:14, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Eh?

This article reads like a copy and paste job from a contempary newspaper —Preceding unsigned comment added by Felneymike (talk • contribs) 19:14, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Close. It's a cut & paste - with some editing - from a history book of the event which itself was - in my opinion - made up from contemporary news clippings. (A record of the Great Fire in Newcastle and Gateshead, 1855, George Routledge & Co, from Google Book Search.) I recognise that some of the language is not typical of many other article pages, but as a fulsome description of the event, I think it works well. The original text is in the public domain, and was cited as a reference, all of which is good practice. --Tagishsimon (talk) 22:31, 6 February 2008 (UTC)