Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Douglas, the proverbial little old lady who wears a big hat, pearls, and tells you to go to hell. The simultaneous Grandmother of the Everglades and Anti-Christ, depending on who is doing the describing, is a fascinating writer and environmental activist. I'm looking for input from other editors on how to improve the article. I nominated it for GA on the same day, but sometimes that process takes a while, so I'm hoping you fine folks can give me some suggestions to make that smoother. I appreciate the effort you put in reading the article. It was most fun to research and write. --Moni3 (talk) 19:56, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
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- Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), there should be a non-breaking space -
between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 100 pounds, use 100 pounds, which when you are editing the page, should look like:100 pounds.[?] - Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Build the web, years with full dates should be linked; for example, if January 15, 2006 appeared in the article, link it as January 15, 2006.[?] All examples of this are in the references so I don't know whether you want to bother or not.
- Watch for redundancies that make the article too wordy instead of being crisp and concise. (You may wish to try Tony1's redundancy exercises.)
- Vague terms of size often are unnecessary and redundant - “some”, “a variety/number/majority of”, “several”, “a few”, “many”, “any”, and “all”. For example, “
Allpigs are pink, so we thought ofa number ofways to turn them green.” - Avoid misplaced formality: “in order to/for” (-> to/for), “thereupon”, “notwithstanding”, etc.
- Vague terms of size often are unnecessary and redundant - “some”, “a variety/number/majority of”, “several”, “a few”, “many”, “any”, and “all”. For example, “
- The script has spotted contractions outside quotes: didn't, didn't, didn't, they should be expanded.
You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, DrKiernan (talk) 08:00, 29 January 2008 (UTC)