Talk:William Calcraft/GA1
Latest comment: 13 years ago by Malleus Fatuorum in topic GA Review
GA Review
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Reviewer: Nikkimaria (talk) 13:46, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
I'll be reviewing this article for potential GA status. My review should be posted shortly. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 13:46, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
- Looks good, adding to WP:GA now. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 18:28, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Writing and formatting
edit- Is "victim" the correct word for someone Calcraft executed? He did kill them, but it was not murder
- I think "victim" is the right word, and it's the word used by most of the sources as well. Malleus Fatuorum 16:35, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
- i disagree, victim implies crime, he was ministering for the state, something which was completely accepted as "normal" at the time, the word victim here then implies a certain subjectivity about the death penalty and is not being used in the objective sense of a crime having a victim
- I think "victim" is the right word, and it's the word used by most of the sources as well. Malleus Fatuorum 16:35, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
- "he would sometimes swing from his victims legs" - grammar
- "it is estimated that he carried out 450 executions, 35 of them women, making him one of the most prolific British executioners of all time" - repeated exactly later in the article (without the second "of", but I think that was a typo?)
- I've rewritten and shortened that sentence to give some variation. Malleus Fatuorum 16:39, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Accuracy and verifiability
edit- Is Block & Hostettler 1997 or 2007?
- 1997, my mistake
- Who was the first author of ref 1? Current entry is "Boase1, G. C."
- Boasel was the original author, but the entry was some time later revised by Gilliland, as is common with OFDNB entries. Malleus Fatuorum 16:17, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
- Okay, amended. Nikkimaria (talk) 16:21, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
- Boasel was the original author, but the entry was some time later revised by Gilliland, as is common with OFDNB entries. Malleus Fatuorum 16:17, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Broad
editNo issues noted
Neutrality
edit- "a threat he had received that he would be shot on the scaffold unmanned him" - could be reworded slightly, as "unmanned" is not exactly a "neutral" word
- Changed it to "unnerved". Malleus Fatuorum 16:19, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Stability
editNo issues noted
Images
edit- The only image present is PD, so no issues there