Talk:Labour Party of Scotland/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Midnightblueowl (talk · contribs) 18:41, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This looks like an interesting article and has been ably put together. I'll give it a review, if I may. Midnightblueowl (talk) 18:41, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

At various points in the article, sentences switch from referring to the party as an "it" to "they". That needs some form of standardisation (preferably to the former). For instance, we have "they are perhaps best known" rather than "it is perhaps best known", and later there is "they were broadly left-wing ". Midnightblueowl (talk) 18:48, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

" 'Labour Party of Scotland' " - cut the single quotation marks. I think maybe this could be done in a better way. Perhaps something like "It modeled itself on a separate, Glaswegian group that had been founded in 1971 and which had also called itself the "Labour Party of Scotland"." Do you think that an improvement? Midnightblueowl (talk) 18:48, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is not essential for GA, but I wonder if it would be worth putting the years of activity in that very first sentence. Something like "short-lived political party in the United Kingdom that was active between the early 1970s and 1973". That gives the reader an instant appreciation of the time frame that they are dealing with. In turn, we could be rid of the "short-lived" piece, and in its place put "Scottish nationalist"? Midnightblueowl (talk) 18:51, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the review Midnightblueowl, not a massive article I know, but I'm glad you found it interesting. Curlymanjaro (talk) 23:51, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Great stuff, Curly. I see no impediments to this being promoted as a GA. Midnightblueowl (talk) 10:41, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]