Talk:Hurricane of 1928 African-American Mass Burial Site/GA1

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Reviewer: Jason Rees (talk · contribs) 22:06, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Hi GeorgeC, Quite a few of these thoughts are just my opinion, so you are free to ignore them if you wish. :)

• First of all make sure that @Prhartcom: comments on the talkpage are dealt with.

• I believe I fixed that--12george1 (talk) 01:59, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Hi 12george1, thanks for fixing it; the new phrase in the article body looks good and checks out with the source. I took a look at the referenced source and saw that it gives the year of the 25th Street expansion as 1964 (p. 12–13), if you'd like to fix that. Also, could you reply to me on the talk page so that others will know that you took care of what was raised. Thanks, all the best, —Prhartcom♥ 12:34, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

• I noticed in the lead that you say White victims, which made me wonder if there really should be a capital letter there.

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 01:59, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

• You need to remove the accessdate on Ref 5 since you do not specify a URL for it.

• Done--12george1 (talk) 01:59, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

• Normally all the external links are wrapped with the title in the link but the last two are not.

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 01:59, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

• "Following less deed restrictions in 1985" - It took me a minute to realise what you meant here. As a result I would suggest that you change it to something like As a result of several deed restrictions being lifted, the church sold the land to Palm Beach Exterminating owner Bernard Kolkana, who was planning the construction of a warehouse on the property.

• Done--12george1 (talk) 01:59, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

• In 1992, city work crews located human remains on the property using a backhoe. Is there anything on what happened next with the bodies, as it seems strange that they would use a JCB digger to find these bodies and not do anything with them.

• The source cites an article from the Palm Beach Post on January 18, 1992. I found the original article using NewsBank (because Newspapers.com requires a paid subscription for the Palm Beach Post). It quoted a maintenance supervisor saying "We put the (bones) right back in place and mark the spot where we found them,". I'll add that to the article--12george1 (talk) 03:07, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

• which is used to -> change is to was since your talking in past tense during the rest of the article.

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 01:59, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

• The team performed the assessment with a subsurface interface radar, which is used to determine the extensive and locations of objects embedded in surfaces such as concrete or soil by electromagnetic signals. -> The team performed the assessment with a subsurface interface radar, which was used to determine the locations of the bodies. There are two reasons here - first i do not like switching tenses in the middle of sentence and two I think the latter part of the sentence would help engage the reader better.

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 01:59, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

• During the 75th anniversary of the storm's landfall in September 2003, a historical marker was finally added by the City of West Palm Beach.[6] - Remember to write from an NPOV and remove the finally.

• Fixed--12george1 (talk) 01:59, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

All in all not a bad article - there are just a few things to work out in my opinion.Jason Rees (talk) 22:06, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

• I've finished with everything. Thanks for the review.--12george1 (talk) 03:59, 23 August 2016 (UTC)