Talk:William Calcraft/GA1

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

• 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
• "he would sometimes swing from his victims legs" - grammar
  • Fixed. Malleus Fatuorum 16:35, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
• "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

• 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)

Broad

No issues noted

Neutrality

• "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

No issues noted

Images

• The only image present is PD, so no issues there