Talk:Excalibur Estate/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs) 06:30, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

I propose to take on this review. Before I read the article in detail and see if the GA criteria are met, I notice that the references are bare urls. I was not sure whether these would be allowed in a GA so I asked the question here. The reply suggested that I should encourage the nominator to add article titles to each link. If you need any help in formatting the citations better, please ask on my talk page. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:30, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

First reading

• The lead section should be a summary of the main body of the article and not include information that is not mentioned elsewhere. There should be no need to include citations in the lead section because these facts should be cited where they appear later in the article.
• In the Background section, you mention prisoners of war in both the first and third paragraphs. I doubt this particular group of POWs was used all round the country building prefabs.
• "Following the London Blitz of the Second World War, London was facing a severe housing shortage." - Rather than repeat the word London too many times, you could say "Following the London Blitz of the Second World War, the capital was facing a severe housing shortage."
• Wikilink Arthurian legend.
• Residents were offered a vote between the estate's demolition or transfer of the estate to a private housing association, which would also demolish the properties." - This sentence is unclear.
• "Conservationists have fought to save the estate from demolition, which they claim is a unique surviving example of twentieth-century architecture." - In this sentence, the word "which" is wrongly used and seems to refer to demolition.
• "Under listing guidelines for twentieth-century buildings, only buildings with few moderations should be listed; in the case of Excalibur, most buildings have modified windows and doors" - I think you mean "alterations" or "modernisations".
• "The project is proposed by Lewisham Council and L&Q who jointly claim that the Excalibur Estate falls short of the standards required by the Decent Homes Standard." - Who or what is "L&Q"?
• Some of the paragraphs have no references in them.
• I have done a few minor copyedits.
• The referencing in general is not up to the standard needed by a GA. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:29, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Review noted, shall consider the recommendations and amend accordingly. Mtaylor848 (talk) 14:53, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

I am failing this nomination as no efforts have been made to improve the article as mentioned in my review above. In particular, the article does not conform to the MOS guidelines with regard to lead, and the referencing is inadequate. If these matters are addressed, the article could be renominated. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:00, 17 June 2013 (UTC)