Wikipedia:Peer review/Slovak Three/archive1

Slovak Three

Greetings fellow reviewers. FYI, I'm chucking this one at you with an eye for a future FAC; at first glance, I think, it's 1, 2, 3 & 4 compliant, but I'm under no illusions that it's ready as it is. It's received a very good—if I can say—GA review from User:Catrìona, but there's always going to be room for improvement, and more eyes is a bonus; so if anyone can suggest any tweaks to structure or prose, or additional sourcing I may have missed, I'd be extremely grateful for any input. Thanking you all in advance! Cheers, ——SerialNumber54129 17:09, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

• Belatedly pinging currently active members of WP:IR who my be interested: Users Antiqueight, AusLondonder, Finnegas, Irishpolitical, Kevin Murray, Mabuska and Scolaire, welcome. ——SerialNumber54129 15:25, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Whilst I would need a more thorough look at the article I would say a B rating so far and that is because of one major flaw I found (and amended) in the article in regards to the IRA campaign, unless innocent civilians count as British government members and the "war" was simply about the British government when it was for an United Ireland. There may be more such instances of inaccurate statements like this so I wouldn't advocate a GA status as of yet. Mabuska ^(talk) 18:48, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Well, quite. If you think that's a major flaw...then this will be FA within the week :) Thanks for looking in though! ——SerialNumber54129 19:07, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Just a drive-by comment: There are two quotations that use {{quotebox}}, which is discouraged within articles. Also, they are formatted as pull quotes, but the quotations do not appear in the body of the article. I am unable to find a section of the MOS that discourages these practices, but I recall reading it somewhere. – Jonesey95 (talk) 11:23, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

On that, I don't think that either blockquotes or quote boxes should be used to quote news items. For instance, if you could show that the judge used the exact words "the High Court had no jurisdiction to retrospectively adapt", etc., then it would be appropriate to use a blockquote, and attribute it to the judge. Otherwise, the extract should be paraphrased and added to article text. The same goes for "A tactic often favoured.." and "The men are accused of membership...". The use of blockquotes and similar to directly quote books or newspaper articles is really copyvio by the back door. Scolaire (talk) 11:43, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Discussion continues at Wikipedia:Peer review/Slovak Three/archive2