Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Jordanus de Nemore

Jordanus de Nemore

This is an article replacing an older (Jordanus Nemorarius) article based on an early-twentieth-century encyclopedia article. For the last 100 years a great deal has been learned about the work of Jordanus, as now summarized in the article, and all biographical rumours about him have been refuted. We simply know nothing certain about this man, only that his works start appearing in the first half of the 13th century.

It is not a stub. I have worked on Jordanus all my life, and no one is going to get anything more of substance. All that is left to do is to critically edit one of his texts, although that will be unlikely to change the content summary in the article.

If the reviewer(s) think that more informtion of a certain type is desired, I would be happy to either add it, or show why such information is never going to be available (e.g., birth, death, education, nationality information).

It should probably be a GA article, but I could try to turn it into an A with some comments.

Ron B. Thomson (talk) 19:09, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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You need to write a lead section, to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Lead. The lead (the bit before the first sub-heading) should have an appropriate number of paragraphs, and should adequately summarize the article.^[?]
- Short lead created. Ron B. Thomson (talk) 20:30, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Consider adding more links to the article; per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links) and Wikipedia:Build the web, create links to relevant articles.^[?]
- a number of (reasonable) links have been added. Ron B. Thomson (talk) 19:09, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Only one image! Please try to find and include a free use image in the top right corner of the article.^[?]
- Since we have no biographical information, there are no "contemporary" images so this will be hard to do. (talk) 20:30, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Most of the other diagrams of any interest are under copyright. Ron B. Thomson (talk) 19:09, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You may wish to consider adding an appropriate infobox for this article, if one exists relating to the topic of the article.^[?]
- Infobox added, but it's pretty empty. Ron B. Thomson (talk) 19:09, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), headings generally do not start with articles ('the', 'a(n)'). For example, the section called ==The Algorismi treatises==, should be changed to ==Algorismi treatises==.^[?]
- Changed (talk) 20:30, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
As per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), please do not link words in headings.^[?] They do not format properly in some browsers and some screenreaders used by disabled users cannot parse them (see Wikipedia:Accessibility).~
- Links moved to text Ron B. Thomson (talk) 20:30, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Watch for redundancies that make the article too wordy instead of being crisp and concise. (You may wish to try Tony1's redundancy exercises.)
- Vague terms of size often are unnecessary and redundant - “some”, “a variety/number/majority of”, “several”, “a few”, “many”, “any”, and “all”. For example, “~~All~~ pigs are pink, so we thought of ~~a number of~~ ways to turn them green.”
- I will do some pencil and paper editing of the whole text again to try to tighten this up. Ron B. Thomson (talk) 20:30, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Don't see anything specific that can be fixed. Ron B. Thomson (talk) 19:09, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, DrKiernan (talk) 14:28, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]