Talk:Blackdown Hills

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Article milestones Date Process Result September 16, 2008 Good article nominee Listed September 27, 2008 Featured topic candidate Promoted September 24, 2021 Featured topic removal candidate Demoted
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Starting review. Pyrotec (talk) 14:13, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good so far. Quite a few red-line locations; and the in-line citations sparse in some sub-sections.Pyrotec (talk) 14:45, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Article is substantially compliant but there are a few areas needing attention, mostly the need for citations. Points needing attention are:

• History section: what appears to be an unfinished sentence regarding Annales Cambriae.

• Geography section. No reference to support statement referring to water extraction from the Otter valley.

• Climate section. Mostly unreferenced, however ref 11 is a "home page" and its sub-pages could provide referencing for possibly all the statements made in these two paragraphs.

• Geology: both references 5 & 6 are long, could page numbers be provided?
• Ecology, first sentence is unreferenced, but possibly ref 6, which appears later, also supports the first sentence.

• History. Middle ages iron working at Hemyock unreferenced. Chain of Elizabethan beacons unreferenced. Ditto wool and yarn production at Cold Harbour; Robert Polhill Bevan; and RAF bases (but I can fix this one tonight).

• Government and Politics: no ref for AONB, but this is covered elsewhere so the ref can be reused.

Overall a good article.Pyrotec (talk) 16:42, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• I'm uncertain that this article is correct in generally considering the Blackdown Hills to be plural, as in "The Blackdown Hills are a sparsely populated area". The lead tells us that it is the name of a range of hills, which would surely make it singular?

• This sentence doesn't make sense: "River valleys cut into the landscape which together support an extensive range of wildlife leading to the designation of 16 Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs)."

• Points of the compass are not given consistently: "unique in south west England .."; "The predominant wind direction is from the south-west."

• It should be consistently "Iron Age", not "iron age".

--Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 17:21, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Response to comments. Thank you both for your comments which have helped to improve the article. I believe all issues raised above have been dealt with except the singular v plural concern. Looking at Quantock Hills which is already a GA and a close neighbour with similar characteristics, the range of hills is described in the plural - but I am willing to bow to expertise on which is correct. Please let me know of any further areas which you feel need improvement.— Rod ^talk 20:27, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations and thanks for all your hard work. I've now assessed the article as GA class. Pyrotec (talk) 18:43, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]