Talk:Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000

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Review: May 13, 2020. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 May 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that when the Act of Parliament renaming the Royal Ulster Constabulary was passed, the force was not named the "Northern Ireland Police Service" because the acronym would have been NIPS?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000.

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 05:19, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Royal Ulster Constabulary

... that when the Act of Parliament renaming the Royal Ulster Constabulary (badge pictured) was passed, the force was not named the "Northern Ireland Police Service" because the acronym would have been NIPS? Source: BBC

Reviewed: Thinkspot

5x expanded by The C of E (talk). Self-nominated at 08:02, 4 May 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Image not approved. Technically, it is not the actual badge but a mockup and I don't think it adds much to the hook. b uidhe 23:30, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 20:21, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Will be reviewing this article as part of the GAN Backlog Drive of April to May 2020. MWright96 (talk) 20:21, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

Lead

The lead is on the short side. Please expand it to cover the other major points mentioned in the article

Background

"During The Troubles, they had been accused" - by whom?
"when going through Parliament.[6][2]" - refs in numerical order please

Name of the force

The acronyms of Police Service of Northern Ireland should be in brackets on the first instance of its mentioning
"Following Conservative Party pressure," - how about Following pressure from the Conservative Party instead?

Recruitment

"It stated that the force's size should be reduced by 4,500 officers." - why was this the case?
"the Royal Ulster Constabulary had a 9–1" - the hyphen should be a en dash per MOS:DASH
The % symbol is better off written as per cent per MOS:PERCENT
The acronyms of the Gaelic Athletic Association should be in brackets

References

References 5, 7, 18, 19, 21 and 22 are missing the publication date
Reference 10 is missing the second author of the article
References 13 and 21 are missing the author(s) of the pieces
The publication date for Reference 20 is incorrect

Am going to put the review on hold to allow the nominator to address/query the points raised above. MWright96 (talk) 12:46, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

- @MWright96: Thank you for the review. I have made amendments based upon your comments so it should be good for another look now. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 17:03, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - @The C of E: I am happy with the changes and will promote this article to GA class. MWright96 (talk) 19:20, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]