Talk:Sermon on the Mound/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 19:28, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Comments

• "made by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to" perhaps -> "made by Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister, to..." just because it's good to underpin the fact that Scotland and "Britain" aren't the same thing.
• Four citations in the lead, they can easily be moved to the main body per MOS:LEADCITE as nothing in the lead should be missing from the main part of the article.
• "address" is mentioned several times, can we mix it up a little with "speech"?
• "1985 Faith in the City report" italics?
• " a play on" link for "play"?
• "her Oxford years" link that savage university here.
• "And it has..." never keen on seeing sentences beginning with "and....
• "idea in Margaret Thatcher's political" no need for Margaret.
• "famously summed" notably
• Is linking Evangelical Methodist Church worthwhile? All my experience of Methodists is the opposite to evangelical!
• "and each one counts."" reference.
• "Choice played a significant part in Thatcherite reforms and Thatcher claimed choice" repetitive, re-word.
• "stating that Christ chose" claiming, or suggesting, rather than "stating". And do we really need to link Christ?
• Or God for that matter?
• " Spirit - something" en-dash.
• "Thacherite" typo.
• "in the press as " no need to link that to a different target.
• "end for Conservative" link.
• "English Methodism and" overlinked.
• References with online links need to be formatted properly, suggest using the {{cite web}} template, happy to help with that if it's a problem.
• Page numbers normally have a space between the p. and the number.

That's all I have for this first read. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 21:54, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

@The Rambling Man: Thanks so much for your thorough review. I have implemented everything you suggested, except one point: Evangelical Methodist Church is a separate American denomination. But I did link Evangelicalism - the Methodists today are mostly fairly liberal, as you noted yourself, but their origins in the Wesleyan revival were Evangelical, and that still had an impact on Thatcher as a girl. I have also changed the references to a newer format that I now prefer - hope you approve. Please do look in again and tell me if I have missed anything. --Doric Loon (talk) 16:40, 7 September 2021 (UTC)