Talk:William King (Royal Navy officer)

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[edit] GA

Just one quick note, I'm thinking that you might want to have a picture of the guy to assist in the passing of the nomination.Cam (Chat) 05:15, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GA Review

GA review (see here for criteria) (see here for this contributor's history of GA reviews)
  1. It is reasonably well written:
    Not Yet
    1. The Lead needs to be expanded. It should be a brief summary of the entire article, including more details about his entire life. Y Done
    2. Watch out for double linkins, there are a few terms (South Africa, World War II, some of the dates, etc.) which are linked to more than once. Y Done
    3. There are also a lot of redlinks which are distracting. They should be linked to somethine else or removed entirely. Y Done
    4. There are several places where details are included in the article in parenthises. They sould be somehow incorperated into the test in a sentence format, overusing parenthises is poor form. Y Done
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable:
    Pass definately not a problem.
  3. It is broad in its coverage:
    Pass No problems there.
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy:
    Pass no problems there.
  5. It is stable:
    Not Yet just solve the above issues and this will be fine.
  6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate:
    Pass Though I would highly recommend that a photograph of him be posted.
  7. Overall:
    On Hold just a few minor issues and this article is good to go. -Ed! (talk) 18:22, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

If the article writer doesn't show up (hasn't edited in some time), then I'll so what I can to fix the article myself. I'll wait a few days though. Wizardman 01:13, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Warships are I beleive held to be automatically notable, so I'm not sure it's a good idea to unlink them, the redlinks will turn blue - these are being fairly actively worked on. David Underdown (talk) 15:04, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Hm, alright. If the article are created we could re-link them, or link a couple at a time. Wizardman 00:48, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I'll do #4 tonight and #1 tomorrow. Sorry I'm taking so long. Wizardman 16:04, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Well done. Two more minor things about the lead, and the article is good to go:
  1. There shouldn't be any refs in the lead (sorry I apparently forgot to mention this) so that detail that has the refs attatched to it should be put in one of the article's sections (and if it is already there, then just remove the refs because they are redundant in both the lead and the body.
  2. Links should appear in the article the first time they are mentioned. The things now mentioned in the lead (HMS Snapper, circumnavgation, etc) that have links should now have the links, and those places lower in the article where the links appear should have them removed.
Just get these done, and it's good to go! -Ed!(talk)(Hall of Fame) 00:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Alright, I'm in progress of doing this. Wizardman 17:08, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Y Done Wizardman 23:58, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

After a re-review, the article now looks excellent, and very much worthy of GA. Congrats to the team of users who promoted it! -Ed!(talk)(Hall of Fame) 02:49, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

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