Talk:Richard Barre

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December 27, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed
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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Richard Barre (died around 1202), a medieval English judge and clergyman, wrote a work on the Bible titled Compendium de veteri et novo testamento?

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GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Richard Barre/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Jezhotwells (talk) 17:49, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I shall be reviewing this article against the Good Article criteria, following its nomination for Good Article status.

Checking against GA criteria[edit]

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
I madae a few minor copy-edits
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
All online references checkout, I assume GF for print sources.
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
As broad as possible
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
~~I found a number of redirects in the wikilinks which need addressing.~~

OK, I deem this worthy of GA status. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:33, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:NOTBROKEN, there isn't any need to fix redirects, however. Ealdgyth - Talk 22:12, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I just thought taht you might like to fix them. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:33, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I used to until I got chastised for fixing them ... Thanks for the review! Ealdgyth - Talk 22:37, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The law school of Bologna[edit]

We should probably have a blue link for law school of Bologna, even if it's a pipe. —Srnec (talk) 00:04, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's not sure that he studied at what became the university though. Likely, but not proven, but we know he studied law at Bologna... Ealdgyth - Talk 00:37, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The phrase "the law school of Bologna" suggests a single law school located in Bologna at which he studied. Are you saying that what became the university was not originally a law school? Or should the article say instead just that he studied law at Bologna and not at "the law school of" it?

I didn't mean to imply that it should pipe to University of Bologna, however. I meant that we need an article on the medieval scholastic study of law at Bologna. There were, if I'm not mistaken, several early law schools there. A single article on all of them would be fine. I don't have the time to work on one right now (maybe some day), but I thought I should point out what appeared to me a serious gap in our coverage. Srnec (talk) 06:33, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Portals[edit]

Why not the Biography and/or Middle Ages portal(s)? I thought it was kosher to include portals at the bottom of articles. --Another Believer _(Talk) 02:16, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Most articles don't include portals at the bottom - especially not such broad ones. If there was a Portal:Canon lawyers .. that might be more relevant, but a link to the biography portal, really? Ealdgyth - Talk 02:25, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]