Talk:Purley, London/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 20:37, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:37, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

• Earwig finds this site which contains the paragraph beginning "The 32nd Surrey Battalion of the Home Guard ...", dating from 2010. That's before the paragraph appeared in the Wikipedia article, so it doesn't appear to have been copied from Wikipedia.
• I've added a couple of citation needed tags for some unsourced sentences.

Spotchecks -- footnote numbers refer to this version:

• FN 5 cites "The council was abolished in 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, and its area transferred to Greater London and used to form part of the London Borough of Croydon." Partly verified but doesn't mention the 1963 Act.
• FN 26 cites "The island opposite Purley Baptist Church has been refurbished and the Church, under the banner of 58:12": the URL is dead and there's no archive link. I found an archived version of the website at the Wayback Machine but could not confirm this.
• FN 54 cites "Purley Cross gyratory connects routes leading south-east to East Grinstead and Eastbourne (the A22), west to Epsom and Kingston (the A2022), south to Redhill and Brighton (the A23), and north to Croydon and Central London (the A23 and A235). The A23 north from Purley forms the Purley Way, which leads to Croydon's trading and industrial hinterland and also to the former Croydon Airport, the predecessor of the present London Heathrow Airport and London Gatwick Airport." This is cited to a wiki, which is not a reliable source.

I'm going to stop here and fail the article -- all three spotchecks had problems, there's a copyvio, and there are unsourced sentences. Some additional comments, in case you want to bring this back to GA after working on it some more:

• The fictional references seems like trivia to me. I would eliminate anything where a third party source doesn't mention it -- e.g. if you have an article in a local Purley newspaper talking about these things, that's a source, but if the citations are essentially to the shows themselves, I would cut them.
• The list of notable residents is too long. There's a category for people from Purley which lets readers find these people if they're interested; I'd cut this to the half-dozen most famous.
• Similarly the list of schools seems bulky for an article this length.
• The nearest railway stations and nearest places lists could usefully be replaced with a local map, which would be far more helpful.
• The article seems short for a place with 800 years of history. I can't be specific without looking at sources, but I would imagine the local libraries would be able to provide some history references that might help.

-- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:40, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Okay thank you for this. Clearly plenty more to do here then. Do you have a link for where I can check for copyvio with Earwig in future? Thanks. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 09:25, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

WP:EARWIG is where I always go because it's easiest to remember. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 09:58, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Oh now that is useful, thanks. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 10:53, 25 April 2023 (UTC)