Talk:James Thompson (surveyor)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 16:42, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

1. Prose ✓ Pass

2. Verifiability ✓ Pass

3. Depth of Coverage ✓ Pass

4. Neutral ✓ Pass

5. Stable ✓ Pass

6. Illustrations ✓ Pass

7. Miscellaneous ✓ Pass

1.

Wikilink Illinois and Michigan Canal if that article's the same thing as the canal Thompson surveyed the area of
- Done
Link South Carolina in the lead
- Done
Piped link militia in the lead to Militia (United States)
- Done
"and a city in 1837" --> "and as a city in 1837"
- Done
I think his service in the Black Hawk War is worth mentioning in the lead, as well as a mention of his death.
- Done
"Shortly after attaining statehood in 1818 Illinois" - Comma after 1818
- Done
Wikilink Illinois River
- Done

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You're not required to have a citation after every sentence. I think only having one citation after the Early life paragraph would look a lot cleaner, all of the information is from that one source. Same with the early career paragraph. Having 22 citations from the same source gives the impression of too heavy of reliance on one source, which isn't the case here, the impression is created by having a citation after every sentence when the whole paragraph is from one source.
- This isn't what I'm used to, but I'll try it. (I plan on eventually bringing this to FAC; hopefully they won't complain about this, but they shouldn't per MINREF.)

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I personally like infoboxes. I'm aware this is a bias of mine, so I'm only going to make this a suggestion, but the generic person infobox could be added to this article
- I don't think the article right now warrants it. As said earlier I plan on eventually taking this to FAC, so if the article develops during the course of that journey I might add one, but for now I don't think it's warranted.
  - Okay. Yeah, it's not a GA-thing. Good luck with the FAC!