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[edit] Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist)

Dinosaur puppy (talk ยท contribs) Would like a review...

[edit] Plange

Love reading any article on the Lees :-) Just had a few suggestions for getting it to GA:

  • Try to expand the lead per WP:LEAD - at least 2 paragraphs for this size article, which summarizes his accomplishments and establishes why he's notable.
  • You should take away any wikilinks of people that would not ever get their own article
  • You'll probably get objections to using {{cquote}} for inline quotations. "In line" or block quotes, which are part of the flow of the article, should use the <blockquote></blockquote> HTML tag wrapped around the quote. {{cquote}}s are used for a different type of quote, the "pull quote". This is when a quote is set off (or "pulled") from the rest of the article for emphasis. Like an image, it's not part of the flow of the text of the main body of the article. Use {{Quotation}}, {{cquote}} or {{Quote box}} to create pull quotes.
  • "Lee was appointed to the Virginia Council of State, which was a lifetime appointment. The council made up the upper half of the Virginia General Assembly. The position also gave Lee the rank of Colonel and was second only to the governor" --- do you have more info on the Council of State? I just expanded Wyndham Robertson and I had that he was appointed to the Council of State (post-Revolution) and when he became the senior member he was essentially the Lieutenant-Governor and so next-in-line to Governor. From your sentence it sounds like it was basically the Virginia Senate? Also, this appointment made him Colonel automatically?

--plange 03:43, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

One more thing, don't forget to add the Wikipedia:Persondata template to the bottom of the article --plange 03:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, just thought of something else-- should the animosity and rivalry between Thomas Lee and Robert "King" Carter be explored? The Carters pretty much intermarried with all the leading families of the time except for the Lees because of this, until way down the line with the parents of Robert E. Lee --plange 04:08, 20 September 2006 (UTC)