Talk:Bradford Island/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 16:15, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

The lead feels a little brief, I would aim for a sentence or two from each section of the article to compose one reasonable-sized para for the lead.
I would also work to avoid very short sentences, perhaps merging for more engaging prose.
USGS is used but not explained or linked in the infobox.
"Sacramento–San Joaquin River delta" Delta appears to be capitalised in our article. But you've already linked it in this section anyway...
""Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta" in the infobox does have that capital D but uses a hyphen instead of an en-dash.
No need to pipe Jersey Island.
"(used to.." why in parentheses?
Avoid single-sentence paragraphs (as you have at the start of the Levees section)
"n repairs done by" completed rather than "done"
No need to link common English words like goat.
There's talk in here of 100 people needing evacuation, are earlier Census stats available about that? What's the demographic of the inhabitants of the island?
"wooden ship" isn't a particularly useful link.
peat is overlinked.
" fire district, the fire was" avoid repeat of "fire", maybe switch the second for "conflagration" or similar.
"3.6 acres " convert for consistency.
Don't force refs into two cols.
Make surre refs are properly formatted, e.g. ref 1 is just a link, it needs things like publilshher name, access date etc, and need to be consistently formatted with all the othher refs.
Avoid SHOUTING in rref titles.

That's a starter review, on hold. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 18:28, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I have taken care of the stuff here as best I can, as well as expanded the article a little. Here is what I did:

Fixed the overlinking, dumb pipes to old redirects, minor grammar issues, et cetera. Single-paragraph sentences have been expanded out.
I don't really know how the references are displayed; I thought maybe I was using the template to display them in two columns, but instead it seems I am just using the default <references></references> tags, so it will just display according to whatever the reader's default display settings(?) are. If you think it's a good idea to figure out how to force them into single-column mode, I will do that.
The "fire fire" thing, I rewrote the sentence to not have them so close together; didn't like the idea of saying "conflagration" but I can do that also if you want.
Fixed the reference (was a normal gnis cite from {{gnis}} which I expanded out into a {{cite web}} invocation. I think this is what you were talking about with the shouting in ref titles, since I don't see any in allcaps now.
The population figures are a little confusing: different sources tend to say different things. My impression is that some figures are counting every landowner as a "resident", while some figures are only counting the number of people whose primary residence is on the island, and newspapers just kinda say whatever. I think the numbers might be quite different due to people not spending much time on the island (for example, the Reclamation District itself's address is on nearby Bethel Island).

Anyway, there is some new stuff as well; thanks for taking the time to give it a look and I will wait happily for the full review. jp×g 23:40, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Lead is still too short, especially now you've expanded the article further.
It's geological not geographic in USGS.
Make sure all units are converted.
The collapsed table needs row/col scopes per MOS:DTT.
Webb Tract, San Joaquin River and False River are overlinked.
Professional Mariner appears to be a journal so should be in italics.

Bit more to look at. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 20:18, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I have done these things, as well as tried to bang out a decent-looking lead. Lemme know what you think. jp×g 21:55, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

JPxG hey, looking good. Just think the lead could use a touch more expansion, and one thing from the article, what does HMP mean? Where I live that's "Her Majesty's Prison"..... The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 13:13, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: Oh, dear. I've clarified on the HMP (here it means Hazard Mitigation Program) and did a bit more with the lede. I've tried to include everything in it from the article that isn't just "list of things that happened here". What do you think? jp×g 02:52, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

JPxG great, happy with that so passing, good work. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 07:54, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]