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I presume this is in British English (it does seem to be), in which case "shopping mall" should be "shopping centre"—we don't tend to use the word "mall" at all; similarly, "congress centers" should be "congress centres"
These are just a few minor points: if you could sort these out, I'll start going through it properly. I've made a few minor tweaks here and there, largely around spelling etc. -
SchroCat (
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16:26, 11 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Thanks, yes, I spotted some extra things which needed sourcing after I nommed it and thought of the mayors. Perhaps @
Ipigott: has access to a list of mayors.♦
Dr. Blofeld18:51, 11 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Overlinking. There are still a few examples of overlinking, listed below. They may not all need to be removed, but you should certainly go through and see if they are justified:
"Early history": St Canute's Abbey.
"Middle Ages": Middle Ages
"Geography and climate": Funen, Aarhus, Odense River, Odense Fjord
"Landmarks": Nonnebakken, Saint Canute's Cathedral, Danish, Claus Berg, Odense Palace
"Palaces and theatres": Odense Palace, King Frederick IV, Frederick IV, Odense Teater
"Museums": Møntergården
"University of Southern Denmark": University of Southern Denmark, Odense University
"Sports": Funen, Odense River
"Transport": Port of Odense, Funen, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Odense Station, Copenhagen, Svendborg
I've done some copyediting and tweaking throughout—it was easier to do it, rather than type out what you have to do—but there is one thing you should look at before this goes to GA:
Thanks, SchroCat, for all your copy edits. You've saved us time and trouble. As a Brit (like you), I am however surprised you changed several of the verb forms in "-ize" to "-ise". Maybe the American Wikipedians have their own ideas about British English but like many British publications, I prefer -ize which comes to me more naturally as I type. Even OED uses -ize (see [
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/ize-ise-or-yse here). I don't usually make spelling mistakes although there may be typos from time to time. You don't need to change them back. I just thought I should point this out in cae anyone else is looking at what we've been doing.--
Ipigott (
talk)
13:39, 15 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi Ipigott, ~ize is fine in AmEng and Oxford English, but ~ise is (loosely) the more standard general English usage. I don't have a problem if you want to change it back (please do feel free to do so - or I am more than happy to do it for you too), but it would probably be worth your time adding the OxEng tag at the top and on the talk page to show it is that variant, rather than the general form as too many people incorrectly assume ~ize is only an AmEng thing. Cheers -
SchroCat (
talk)
13:58, 15 July 2014 (UTC)reply
No, please don't bother to change them back. I'm fine with -ise too but I type quickly (touch-typing) and the -ize forms just come out automatically. My spelling checker on Firefox doesn't alert me to any problems either. I beg to differ, though, with your analysis. I think you will find academic literature by British authors prefers the -ize forms too. And I really don't think it should be necessary to place a special explanation at the top of every article I edit or create. I'll try to get @
Dr. Blofeld: to handle the date sequences. He added the dates and I never know what kind of dashes Wikipedia prefers (or where they can be found in the Wiki markup). --
Ipigott (
talk)
18:10, 15 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Mayors
I think I'm right in saying that the year ranges fail the MoS, and should be in the format of (1792–97) etc
I should explain that my revert was to bring the article back to its last "stable state", and try and initiate dialogue on the matter. Having mulled it over I think my opinion is that they are of importance within the framework of an town's article, and certainly shouldn't be dismissed as "clutter". The only thing I would change is the inclusion of the flags, which may fall outside
MOS:FLAG; others may disagree and think their inclusion is fine in MOS terms and helpful, and I'm not fussed enough to argue the point on it, but perhaps those who re-wrote and took the article through GAN think about that point and come to a decision, which I will be happy to support as the consensus. -
SchroCat (
talk)
07:04, 7 August 2014 (UTC)reply
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