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I've listed this article for peer review because I`ve edited the page to a point which this article is no longer in the start phase.
Thanks, Rockybiggs ( talk) 16:06, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rockybiggs,
Good work on the article, you seem to have made some good improvements to it.
Hopefully Ruhrfish will come back to you with some useful feedback, but I will make a few general points in the meantime.
As a guideline for developing this article, you might like to look at Radcliffe, Greater Manchester and Ashton-under-Lyne. The reason I suggest those is that they are featured articles on a similar topic, i.e. a suburb of a large English conurbation. Another useful port of call is WP:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements, which provides lots of guidance on which sections to include etc. Broadly, you need sections on History (which you already have), Governance, Geography, Demography and Economy at the very least and probably also Landmarks, Sport etc. if there is enough to say about them.
Another thing to bear in mind is referencing. This is pretty much the number one rule in Wikipedia. Try to find sources for every single thing you write. As an example, the Roads paragraph does not contain a single reference. A map would do for the A road information, and for the ringways scheme you could probably check in London ringways article itself to see what references they use.
Once you have the above sections in place, you will then need to expand the lead so that it becomes a summary of everything significant mentioned in the article. As such, it needs to be longer than at present (probably 3-4 paragraphs), and it needs to closely match the individual sections of the body of the article.
Anyway, good luck with it - I know it can seem daunting at first, but if you keep plugging away, section by section, you can make it. And any work you do do is a bonus for Wikipedia, even if you then have to move onto other things. I have been working on the Rwanda article for the past year or so, with pretty limited time available sometimes, and am finally getting to the point where it is shipshape enough to consider a GA or FA run. Thanks — Amakuru ( talk) 22:57, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on this article and sorry to be slow in reviewing it. I agree with Amakuru's comments above and hve some more suggestions for improvement.
Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch peer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 05:50, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
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This peer review discussion has been closed.
I've listed this article for peer review because I`ve edited the page to a point which this article is no longer in the start phase.
Thanks, Rockybiggs ( talk) 16:06, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rockybiggs,
Good work on the article, you seem to have made some good improvements to it.
Hopefully Ruhrfish will come back to you with some useful feedback, but I will make a few general points in the meantime.
As a guideline for developing this article, you might like to look at Radcliffe, Greater Manchester and Ashton-under-Lyne. The reason I suggest those is that they are featured articles on a similar topic, i.e. a suburb of a large English conurbation. Another useful port of call is WP:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements, which provides lots of guidance on which sections to include etc. Broadly, you need sections on History (which you already have), Governance, Geography, Demography and Economy at the very least and probably also Landmarks, Sport etc. if there is enough to say about them.
Another thing to bear in mind is referencing. This is pretty much the number one rule in Wikipedia. Try to find sources for every single thing you write. As an example, the Roads paragraph does not contain a single reference. A map would do for the A road information, and for the ringways scheme you could probably check in London ringways article itself to see what references they use.
Once you have the above sections in place, you will then need to expand the lead so that it becomes a summary of everything significant mentioned in the article. As such, it needs to be longer than at present (probably 3-4 paragraphs), and it needs to closely match the individual sections of the body of the article.
Anyway, good luck with it - I know it can seem daunting at first, but if you keep plugging away, section by section, you can make it. And any work you do do is a bonus for Wikipedia, even if you then have to move onto other things. I have been working on the Rwanda article for the past year or so, with pretty limited time available sometimes, and am finally getting to the point where it is shipshape enough to consider a GA or FA run. Thanks — Amakuru ( talk) 22:57, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on this article and sorry to be slow in reviewing it. I agree with Amakuru's comments above and hve some more suggestions for improvement.
Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch peer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 05:50, 22 February 2011 (UTC)