The result was: rejected by
Bencherlite
Talk 09:12, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
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Moved to mainspace by Storye book ( talk). Self nominated at 19:41, 22 April 2014 (UTC).
Let's just take one sentence: "On entering this small and unassuming building, the unexpected glory of the interior for the visitor is the scissor-truss roof,[20] which after more than a century retains rare stencil paintings by Powell Bros of Leeds on the chancel beams.[21]" This is sourced to two photographs. "Small and unassuming", "unexpected glory", "rare" - POV. "Scissor-truss roof", "more than a century", "stencil paintings by Powell Bros of Leeds" - well, as this is only sourced to photographs, there are obvious problems with OR / verification. Looking more widely, I see that lots of the article is "sourced" to photographs or to unpublished documents in the church archives, or an apparently unpublished local history leaflet. The curates section gives lots of dates for appointments, but sourced only to birth and death certificates, which doesn't work. Unless, of course, the reference next to the final sentence to an unpublished list of curates in the church archives is enough to cover the whole section, which it isn't, in more than one sense. I could go on (e.g. the unsupported speculation in the "repairs and reordering" section; the claim in the lead that "It was funded by local benefactor Mary Mackie in memory of her husband" when the source does not mention her husband; speculation about the architect not supported by the cited sources: "Some of his major designs which would have made his reputation and recommended him for this task are..."; the visual mess caused by an over-use of photographs when links are provided in any event to Commons) but this article is not fit for the main page in its current state. Bencherlite Talk 07:40, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
The result was: rejected by
Bencherlite
Talk 09:12, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
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Moved to mainspace by Storye book ( talk). Self nominated at 19:41, 22 April 2014 (UTC).
Let's just take one sentence: "On entering this small and unassuming building, the unexpected glory of the interior for the visitor is the scissor-truss roof,[20] which after more than a century retains rare stencil paintings by Powell Bros of Leeds on the chancel beams.[21]" This is sourced to two photographs. "Small and unassuming", "unexpected glory", "rare" - POV. "Scissor-truss roof", "more than a century", "stencil paintings by Powell Bros of Leeds" - well, as this is only sourced to photographs, there are obvious problems with OR / verification. Looking more widely, I see that lots of the article is "sourced" to photographs or to unpublished documents in the church archives, or an apparently unpublished local history leaflet. The curates section gives lots of dates for appointments, but sourced only to birth and death certificates, which doesn't work. Unless, of course, the reference next to the final sentence to an unpublished list of curates in the church archives is enough to cover the whole section, which it isn't, in more than one sense. I could go on (e.g. the unsupported speculation in the "repairs and reordering" section; the claim in the lead that "It was funded by local benefactor Mary Mackie in memory of her husband" when the source does not mention her husband; speculation about the architect not supported by the cited sources: "Some of his major designs which would have made his reputation and recommended him for this task are..."; the visual mess caused by an over-use of photographs when links are provided in any event to Commons) but this article is not fit for the main page in its current state. Bencherlite Talk 07:40, 4 June 2014 (UTC)