Talk:Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: DarjeelingTea (talk · contribs) 09:08, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Update December 23, 2016: Three notices [1], [2], [3] have been left on the nominator's Talk page over the last 11 days without response. It appears the nominator may not be active at this time. The article is failed without prejudice for its future renomination. DarjeelingTea (talk) 19:45, 23 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well-written

Overall good job, however, some issues need to be addressed.

The lede is too long to be compliant with WP:LEADLENGTH.
Need a comma between "superintendents" and "one" in history as it's a paranthetical expression.
In History remove the errant punctuation mark in this phrase - "regular duties 'for the continuous"
This - In 1967 Hampshire, and the city forces (Southampton and Portsmouth) were amalgamated, as a result of the reforming Police Act 1964, and became the current Hampshire Constabulary. - is a clunky sentence and needs restructuring.
Per WP:PROSE we shouldn't just have a standalone list like "Significant events" and the content should be converted into prose and incorporated into the rest of the History section.
Are we sure the "county crest" is correct terminology in "Headgear"? The Hampshire County Council has been granted arms [4], however, the image of the helmet in the photo does not display the crest of those arms, rather, it appears to simply incorporate one of the charges on the field.
Per the MOS the "3" in "The unit operates from 3 bases" needs to become "three"

Verifiable / no original research

work is needed

Source needed for the paragraph in history starting "in 1943 ..."
Much of the uniform section, particularly headgear, needs sources.
The section "strength and recruitment" is devoid of sources.
Agency executives, listed in infobox, need sources.
Earwig shows potential copyvio "unlikely" so that's good.
Some sources are raw links and need to be fixed (e.g. under senior management team - actually, you could probably nix this section entirely and incorporate it into the infobox)
List of previous chief constables needs sources

Broad in coverage

The article is broad in coverage while remaining focused on the topic and addressing all reasonable aspects expected of a police article. A cursory search I conducted for other significant information on this topic turned-up empty-handed.

Neutral

The article presents a NPOV.

Stable

meets criteria

There are no outstanding content disagreements on the Talk page.
The article is very stable with only incidental recent edits.

Images

meets criteria

Images are correctly licensed, or meet the requirements for non-free media.