Portal:London/Articles/Vote/Archive 4

This is the archive for London Portal's selected article 2010

2010 Former nominations

Hampton Court Palace

Selected for February 2010

Zone 6 is still London… One of the most significant buildings architecturally and historically in the entire urban sprawl, but sometimes overshadowed by its inner-city cousins at Westminster. – iridescent 17:55, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Support I have a strong preference for the Tudor period; the palace clock would make a strong decorative image ... or the palace from the gardens. It looks well written, I'd give it a 'B' - let down by lack of refs (quality drive, anyone)? A bit of a cheek for the DoE to allow a multi-storey fun palace to be built on the opposite side of the river. Kbthompson (talk) 18:52, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

You could probably pester Giano into cleaning this one up, if you asked nicely; this kind of article is what he shines at. – iridescent 18:57, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Very flattering. It is indeed. However, before anything can be done it needs a complete hatchet job on such a scale as an editor who has never touched it - I hesitate. The Ghost section needs to be moved to a page of it's own (preferably on another project) the second lead image (the sunset one) needs to be put somewhere the sun don't shine and then a plan is required showing the stages of development etc. It's a beautiful place, but it needs a lot of work. Most importantly, it needs the basics adding slowly, simply and carefully with diagrams. Once it's explained how the place was built and evolved the page will write itself. Giano (talk) 22:04, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Middlesex

Selected for May 2010

It's sometimes forgotten that London didn't appear onto blank space but gobbled up a place with a thousand years of history in its own right. – iridescent 17:55, 20 March 2009 (UTC)