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Brownhills

My normal area of operations is football articles, but my wife made me promise to work on the article on her hometown in exchange for spending so long on the computer! :-) So I've been hard at work on this for a while now (in comparison, before I first edited it, it looked like this), and would appreciate any input on anything that needs looking at before I put it up for FA......

Thanks,

ChrisTheDude 11:07, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

• Please see automated peer review suggestions here. Thanks, APR _t 00:53, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Dihydrogen Monoxide

Your wish is my command - here are some suggestions and things.

• "town" (first sentence) needs some sort of wikilink

 Done

• "On the edge of Cannock Chase, it is 6 miles (9.7 km) north-east of Walsall and a similar distance south-west of Lichfield" - Located on the ends of Cannock Chase, or what?

 Done

• The images used in the article (especially the two in the Geography and climate section) could be a bit bigger, so it looks pretty :)

 Done

• Not sure you need the co-ordinates at the top of that section, they're already at the top of the article

 Done

• "Brownhills compared"...to what? Elaborate on this table's heading

 Done - changed the title completely, not sure if it is too informal, though.....?

• "Governance" section could be expanded if possible

I can't think of anything else to add, it already details the local MP, last general election details and current local council control, is there anything else that needs to be covered....?

• The image captions in the "Economy" section are a bit...well...not formal enough, if you get my drift.

 Done

• Are there any more appropriate categories?

I can't find any which seem suitable

That's about it. My review is brief because I didn't read the article in full - I really am not the copyedit type for such long articles (20kb is about my limit :) ). But yeah, I think it'd do OK at an FAC - tell me when it comes, I'd like to support! Dihydrogen Monoxide (H₂O) 08:15, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks for your comments, they've been most helpful and I will see about putting the article up for GAC later, but right now I should probably get on with some work.... ;-) ChrisTheDude 08:42, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Looking forward to it! Dihydrogen Monoxide (H₂O) 07:50, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Automated peer review

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• Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Lead. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.^[?]
• Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates), months and days of the week generally should not be linked. Years, decades, and centuries can be linked if they provide context for the article.^[?]
• If there is not a free use image in the top right corner of the article, please try to find and include one.^[?]
• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), there should be a non-breaking space -   between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 36km, use 36 km, which when you are editing the page, should look like: 36 km.^[?]
• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), when doing conversions, please use standard abbreviations: for example, miles -> mi, kilometers squared -> km², and pounds -> lb.^[?]
• This article may need to undergo summary style, where a series of appropriate subpages are used. For example, if the article is United States, then an appropriate subpage would be History of the United States, such that a summary of the subpage exists on the mother article, while the subpage goes into more detail.^[?]
• As done in WP:FOOTNOTE, footnotes usually are located right after a punctuation mark (as recommended by the CMS, but not mandatory), such that there is no space in between. For example, the sun is larger than the moon [2]. is usually written as the sun is larger than the moon.[2]^[?]
• Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.^[?]

You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, Dihydrogen Monoxide (H₂O) 08:15, 30 October 2007 (UTC)