Talk:Acceptable level of violence

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A fact from Acceptable level of violence appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 January 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Hugh Orde, the head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, has been criticized for using the phrase "acceptable level of violence"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Acceptable level of violence.

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Reviewer: MX (talk · contribs) 18:45, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Review coming up. MX (✉ • ✎) 18:45, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A quick note that the "See also"—Containment—should be retargeted to Ulsterisation, the process by which the British government made NI institutions responsible for managing the conflict rather than running it directly. It's not a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States :) Keep well, ——SN 54129 19:33, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it is the same. Ulsterisation says that the other two prongs of the category are "normalization" and "criminalization", this article is presumably what "normalization" refers to. b uidhe 20:24, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the late review. The article is short but thorough. It is ripe for promotion. Below are a few points needed to be addressed before we promote this to GA. MX (✉ • ✎) 19:34, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA progress

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()

3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()

Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

Prose

A 2018 article in Irish Times suggested - Should be The Irish Times.
- Done
are considered acceptable losses—although - Should it be were considered acceptable losses ...?
- Done
that the post-Troubles violence was - Please link The Troubles or an article about the post-war violence, if any.
- Rephrased
Democratic Unionist Party MLA Jimmy Spratt called Orde's comments "outrageous" - What is MLA?
- linked Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland)
but 88 of them in the United Kingdom. - I'm not able to see the pages, but does it use United Kingdom? Above you had used Great Britain.
- Yes, "Great Britain" refers to England, Scotland and Wales: the United Kingdom outside Northern Ireland. The second reference is to United Kingdom as a whole.

Image

Image is properly licensed. But I tried accessing the link but it is dead. How sure are we this was released by the U.S. federal government? I found this archived version but it is still Ebay.
- Yeah, that is suspicious. I cannot confirm it either, or find a free image of Maudling, so I removed it.

Other points

No obvious copyright violations
Sources are reliable and I found no unsourced material
MOS layout is fine and article is stable
- Thanks for the review! I think I have fixed everything. b uidhe 20:17, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]