Talk:Somerset/GA1

GA nom

Whoever nominated this seems to have forgotten to put the GA nom template here ... I just rectified that.

Anyway, I have also put the nomination on hold for the usual week pending a couple of issues that could be taken care of in, perhaps, an afternoon.

Consistent use of the same system of measure. This is one of my biggest bugbears. I cannot stress enough how ridiculous it looks to be jumping back and forth between metric and English units like an episode of the original Star Trek.
The geology section is a horrible offender in this regard. First, "198 km² of the central and western Mendip Hills was designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1972." Okay, it may be a British article but we've decided to use metric. Fine. But then, a sentence later, the Somerset Levels "stretch ... up to 20 miles inland ... only a few feet above sea level." So we're not using metric, then. Finally, the highest point in Somerset is "Dunkery Beacon on Exmoor, with an altitude of 519 metres (1704 feet)". Looks like we're using both ... as we should have all along.

That section also ends with "Over 100 sites within Somerset have been designated as Sites of Special Scientific Interest which can be browsed on this list." The last clause needs to go as it's self-referential (cf. that page "To ease reusability, never allow the text of an article to assume that the reader is viewing it at Wikipedia, and try to avoid even assuming that the reader is viewing the article at a website.")

"The first known use of the name Somersæte was in 845 after the region fell to the Saxons". In a section rife with footnoted sources, this is curiously uncited. I would think something this important should be.

I would suggest a gallery section for the images along the side of Settlements.

That's all. See what you can do. Daniel Case 03:34, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It has been a week since I put this article on hold and none of the above changes have been made. Thus it fails. When they are made, feel free to renominate. Daniel Case 20:30, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]