Talk:William Calcraft/GA1

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Reviewer: Nikkimaria (talk) 13:46, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be reviewing this article for potential GA status. My review should be posted shortly. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 13:46, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is "victim" the correct word for someone Calcraft executed? He did kill them, but it was not murder
- I think "victim" is the right word, and it's the word used by most of the sources as well. Malleus Fatuorum 16:35, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - i disagree, victim implies crime, he was ministering for the state, something which was completely accepted as "normal" at the time, the word victim here then implies a certain subjectivity about the death penalty and is not being used in the objective sense of a crime having a victim
"he would sometimes swing from his victims legs" - grammar
- Fixed. Malleus Fatuorum 16:35, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"it is estimated that he carried out 450 executions, 35 of them women, making him one of the most prolific British executioners of all time" - repeated exactly later in the article (without the second "of", but I think that was a typo?)
- I've rewritten and shortened that sentence to give some variation. Malleus Fatuorum 16:39, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is Block & Hostettler 1997 or 2007?
- 1997, my mistake
Who was the first author of ref 1? Current entry is "Boase1, G. C."
- Boasel was the original author, but the entry was some time later revised by Gilliland, as is common with OFDNB entries. Malleus Fatuorum 16:17, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Okay, amended. Nikkimaria (talk) 16:21, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No issues noted

"a threat he had received that he would be shot on the scaffold unmanned him" - could be reworded slightly, as "unmanned" is not exactly a "neutral" word
- Changed it to "unnerved". Malleus Fatuorum 16:19, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No issues noted