Talk:Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Nikkimaria (talk) 03:57, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

I'll be reviewing this article for possible GA status. My review should be posted in the next day or so. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 03:57, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

I've decided to pass this article as GA - consider the long list of suggestions as a precursor to FAC ;). Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 17:14, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Writing and formatting

• Biographical articles should have WP:Persondata
• Be consistent in whether you use "isation" or "ization" (I think you're using mostly British spelling?)
• "interested himself in politics" - slightly awkward wording
• "The 1800 Acts of Union had given millions of Irish Catholics representation at Westminster" - what's at Westminster? A non-Brit probably wouldn't know that Parliament meets there
• "but existing law prevented them from being the representatives because of their religion" - change to "prevented them from representing themselves" or "from being elected to Parliament"?
• "The social reformer and anti-monarchist, Francis Place managed to get on the inquest jury and became its foreman" - remove comma
• "The Duke was shown to be" - shown how, and by who?
• "It being considered improper for a peer to interfere in a Commons election, there was considerable controversy, and the Government sent Ernest to Europe as an observer to accompany Hanoverian troops, which were again engaged in war against France" - very long sentence, repetitive use of consider*, awkward phrasing
• "Liverpool tried again in 1817, this time the bill failed by seven votes" - grammar
• "Princess Charlotte of Wales, only child of the Prince Regent, was the King's only legitimate grandchild, but was expected to have children who would secure the British succession, especially after she married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld in 1816" - very long sentence
• Link George IV
• "but left behind him a daughter" -> "but left (behind) a daughter"
• "it was said that Thomas Garth, illegitimate son of Ernest's sister Princess Sophia had been fathered by Ernest" - grammar
• "the Duke had been thrown out of Lord Lyndhurst's house for assaulting his wife" - assaulting the Lord's wife or his own wife?
• "A number of papers, in early 1830, printed articles hinting that Ernest was having an affair with Lady Graves, a mother of fifteen now past fifty[58]" - remove first two commas or reorder sentence, need closing punctuation
• "Nonetheless, many believed the Duke either responsible for the suicide—or guilty of a second murder" - grammar
• "A second test of strength was also won by the King" - awkward
• "with the lodges (which took anti-Catholic views) said to be ready to rise and try to put the Duke of Cumberland on the Throne on the death of King William" - awkward phrasing
• "the constitution was void for failure to obtain" -> "failing to obtain"?
• "Seven professors including the two Brothers Grimm, refused to take the oaths" - grammar
• "Only one of the seven, orientalist Heinrich Ewald was a citizen of Hanover and he was not expelled" - grammar
• What happened to the three that were neither citizens nor expelled? Why were they not expelled?
• "unless the Devil prompted him" - maybe make this a direct quote?
• "the King, that they were to go to the heir male, that is, himself" - awkward

Accuracy and verifiability

• "owners of the borough of Weymouth" - source for quote?
• "The little Queen looked very fine, I hear, loaded down with my diamonds." - source for quote? Also, is he quoted as saying this, or did he write it somewhere (a letter, maybe?)
• Ref 15: date is wrong
• Use columns for footnotes?
• Refs 82 and 83 are duplicates
• Formatting in ref 15 doesn't match refs 112 and 114
• Why are 112 and 114 the only refs not to end with a period?
• Why do some Bibliography entries end with a period when others do not?
• ISBN for Horst?

Broad

• No issues noted

Neutrality

• A couple of minor WP:W2W issues
• Does your source say that he "fumed"? Seems a bit strong
• Be very careful about passive voice and discussion of rumours

Stability

• No issues noted

Images

• Text sandwiching in Early life could be eliminated
• File page for 1799 sketch: what's a yar?
• Link thaler
• File page for thaler image: did the German mint exist in 1843? Do we need attribution for the photo in addition to the coin itself? Licensing tag is wrong, because a coin is not two-dimensional (at least as I understand it)
• "Ernest Augustus portrait" -> "Portrait of Ernest Augustus"
• "To Hanover" coin: same license tag issue as thaler, and the source link is now dead. Also, what's that mark in the bottom right of the image - an indicator of copyright / image ownership?