Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Robert Gray (sea captain)

Looking for an intital rating, ideas to make better/improve to push towards at least GA. Aboutmovies 22:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Intro and TOC are a mess...but help is on the way! Kaisershatner 15:01, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:MoS single years like "in 1790" should not be linked. Only full dates: "in January 1 1790 ..."
"He died at sea in 1806, near Charleston, South Carolina,[1] possibly due to yellow fever.[2]" IMO it is not nice to have a stubby paragraph like this in the lead.
"Early life" is stubby. Merge or expand.
"He is known, however, to have served in the Triangular trade of South Carolina, aboard the Pacific." Known by whom? Citation needed.
"On September 30, 1787", "On September 17, 1788". Per above, the dates here should be linked.
"Additional ships to explore the coast under the command of Captain George Vancouver.[citation needed] ...". These ^{[citation needed]}s should be fixed.
"And in 1788 Gray had attempted to enter a large river..." Why do you start the sentence here with "and"?
"Circumnavigation" is stubby and uncited.
"Gray then finished filling his cargo hold with pelts and set sail for China. In Canton, Gray again traded his cargo for tea. He then returned to Boston.[1] Gray returned to Boston in 1793, after again circumnavigating the globe." Repetitive and choppy prose.
"Legacy" is uncited.
In some of your printed sources used as "Notes", you have no pages.
The websites you have in "References" are not used as inline citations if I'm not wrong. If I'm right, then they are "External links" not "References".
Categories at the end of the article should be alphabetized.--Yannismarou 16:52, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]