Talk:T. E. Lawrence/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) 18:57, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Picking this one up. Review to follow in a couple of days time. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:57, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Article is of Good Article quality. Some little bits to prove I read it. One factual error.

Lead

• Link military intelligence

• Ottoman Empire, Arab Revolt and Royal Air Force are linked twice. Remove the second link

Early life

• " 2, Polstead Road" Remove comma

Travels, antiquities, and archaeology

• "He graduated with First Class Honours[28]" Move footnote to the end of the sentence

Military intelligence

• Move the first paragraph into the previous section

• " Lt. Cmdr. " -> "Lieutenant Commander" and link

• "when he was commissioned on the General List" In what rank?
• "The Bureau's chief was General Gilbert Clayton" -> "Brigadier-General Gilbert Clayton" and link rank

• "Egyptian High Commissioner" link to List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Egypt

Arab Revolt

• "300 miles (480 km)" Use adj=on to convert to adjectival form

• "he was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath and promoted to Major". Do not capitalise "major" here. Could add your link and date of the Gazette (which appears later)
• "Colonel Pierce Charles Joyce" -> "Lieutenant Colonel Pierce Charles Joyce"

• "10th Australian Light Horse Brigade led by Major A. C. N. "Harry" Olden" Major issue: there was no 10th Light Brigade. Olden commanded the 10th Light Horse Regiment. And link to that article.

• "General Gourand" -> General Henri Gouraud

• Unlink Aqaba, Damascus, t Sykes-Picot Agreement (duplicate links)

Post-war years

• Merge the paragraph beginning with "Lawrence worked with Thomas" into the previous paragraph.
• Merge the paragraph beginning with "He campaigned" into the previous paragraph.

• Link The Times, The Observer, The Daily Mail, and The Daily Express

• Unlink the second instance of Lady Houston (duplicate link)

• "'Forgive my asking, but you know everything'" Use double quotes instead of single quotes

• "a 'wrong 'un.'" Use double quotes instead of single quotes
• "37.5 feet (11.4 m) long" Use the adj card here

• Move last paragraph into next section.

Death

• Merge first two paragraphs.
• Unlink Winston Churchill, Arnold (duplicate links)

Writings

• Move hatnote to the top of the section

• Merge last two paragraphs of "Writings"

• "his brother Professor A. W. Lawrence" -> "His brother Arnold" and unlink
• Unlink Aqaba, Winston Churchill, Robert Graves, E. M. Forster, Jeremy Wilson, George Bernard Shaw', Augustus John, D. G. Hogarth (duplicate links)

Sexuality

• Unlink Charlotte Shaw, John E. Mack (duplicate links)

Adlington controversy

• "Lawrence of Arabia: A biographical enquiry" -> " Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry"

• "Aldington alleges" -> "Aldington alleged"

Awards and commemorations

• "and awarded the Croix de guerre (France)" Delete "awarded"

• "Lawrence appears on the album cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles" Move into the Popular culture section
• Unlink Arab Revolt, Eric Kennington, Polstead Road (duplicate links)

Sources

• Anderson, Armitage, Brown, Carchidi, Ciampaglia, Richard Graves, Hoffman, Hullsman, Hyde, James, M. R. Lawrence, 2003 version of Lawrence, Leclerc, Leigh, Marriott, Meulenjizer, Meyer, Mousa, Norman, Nutting, Ocampo, Paris, Rosen, Sarindar, Sattin, Simpson, Stewart, Storrs and Thomas are not used. Create a "Further reading" section and move them all there.

Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:12, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7 All  Done, thanks for the review. Let me know if there is anything else. Cheers ZaniGiovanni (talk) 16:15, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

All good. I made some minor changes to the References. Some further work would be required to clean the sources and image licences up if you wanted to take it to FAC. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:02, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

1. Is it well written?

   A. The prose is clear and concise, and the spelling and grammar are correct:

   B. It complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation:

2. Is it verifiable with no original research?

   A. It contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline:

   B. All in-line citations are from reliable sources, including those for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons—science-based articles should follow the scientific citation guidelines:

   C. It contains no original research:

   D. It contains no copyright violations nor plagiarism:

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

   A. It addresses the main aspects of the topic:

   B. It stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style):

4. Is it neutral?

   It represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each:

5. Is it stable?

   It does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute:

6. Is it illustrated, if possible, by images?

   A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content:

   Some of these are questionable. Suggest the licence on the infobox image be changed to PD-UKGov.

   B. Images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:

7. Overall:

   Pass or Fail:

   Meets GA standards

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