Talk:Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall/GA1

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Reviewer: Ed! (talk · contribs) 01:24, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note I'm a Good Article recruiter and am also using this review as a teaching tool for my recruitee. —Ed!^(talk) 01:24, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'll do the review for this article. —Ed!^(talk) 01:24, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Early life: "and had been preparing to set up a training establishment in India when the First World War broke out." -- Was he preparing to set up a new unit, or a facility? It isn't clear what "establishment" means. Also the next sentence says he was in England when the war broke out. Was he preparing in England or had he been there temporarily for some reason?

Hopefully now a bit clearer. The sources don't quite all agree, but I think I've come up with a common interpretation. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:56, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

~~"Relations were strained until January 1916,..." -- Relations with the men I assume? Might be good to note if so.~~
~~"when he demonstrated a remarkable degree of physical courage" -- "Remarkable" strikes me as non-neutral language. I would remove that term.~~

Reworded. I've run the two sentences together, which hopefully clarifies the relations issue. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:26, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"...it has been suggested that he was heavily influenced by the views of the still-influential Trenchard" -- 'It has been suggested' is a weasel term, I suggest it might sound better to say who suggested this.

This becomes weirdly interesting. Neither Ludlow-Hewitt or Freeman's ODNB entries even mention the prospect of having been made CAS in 1937; Dowding's entry mentions it without any gloss. Newall's entry explains it was unexpected but doesn't speculate on reasons. Allen is actually a bit more evasive here; he doesn't draw a line between the events, but he does make it clear that Trenchard was hampering Dowding even if not helping Newall. I'll refocus it more on the oddness of the appointment. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:45, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Update - I've just dropped that note, since we already discuss the surprise. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:47, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"but there were also political forces at work; a dispute with Lord Beaverbrook over the control of aircraft production had made a powerful enemy in the Cabinet." -- Same here, it's good reading, but an encyclopedia should have a little more of a netural tone. Avoid "powerful enemy" and instead say "rival" maybe.

I don't think "rival" works; while they had clearly fought over the allocation of shared resources, I don't think there's any indication Newall wanted to unseat Beaverbrook, while the converse was certainly true. Hmm. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:26, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reworded (though it's a bit clumsy now; I might look at it again tomorrow). Andrew Gray (talk) 23:25, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

~~The "Arms" information needs a citation.~~

To be honest, I don't much like this box at all (but it was here already, so...). I've taken the opportunity to move it out and leave the detailed information on the talkpage. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:26, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

~~The duplicate links tool shows there are a number of repeated links in the article. If you could, look through and remove some of them.~~

Done. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:13, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I see no disambiguation pages on the article and all of the external links appear to be working. The images have proper lisences, and other than the few wording things above I see no problems with article stability or neutrality.

Placing the article on hold pending a few fixes. —Ed!^(talk) 03:13, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

OK. I think the article looks good now. Passing for GA. —Ed!^(talk) 18:56, 27 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]