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Bournemouth Airport

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I've listed this article for peer review because it has reached the point where it is only updated/expanded on the announcements of new information from Bourneouth Airport and its airlines. It has enough references for its length and nothing about the article strikes home about desperately needing improvement.

Thanks, Cm1989 (talk) 15:08, 23 March 2010 (UTC)Cm1989

Finetooth comments: This reads well and is broad in coverage. However, it lacks in-line citations for many of its claims, and many of its existing citations are incomplete. This means that the article, however readable, does not comply with WP:V. Finding sources for material added by other editors but left unsourced can be time-consuming and tedious, but an article that doesn't meet the verifiability guidelines has no hope of promotion.

• Large parts of the article are unsourced. A good rule of thumb is to provide a source for every paragraph as well as any direct quotations, sets of statistics, or any claim that has been challenged or is apt to be challenged.

• To avoid a fragmented layout, it's generally a good idea to eliminate one-sentence orphan paragraphs and very short sections either by merger or expansion.

• The lead should be a summary of the whole article. A good rule of thumb for the lead is to include at least a mention of each of the main text sections. This lead says nothing about the 1940s, aircraft manufacture, expansion, or Steve Fossett, and it includes information about awards that don't appear in the main text.

References

• Many of the references are incomplete. For example, citations of web sources should include author, title, publisher, date of publication, url, and most recent access date, if all of those are known or can be found.
• Newspaper names should be in italics.

Other

• The dab finder at the top of this review page finds five links that go to disambiguation pages instead of their intended targets.
• The alt-text tool shows that the images lack alt text meant for sight-impaired readers who depend on machines that read the text aloud.

I hope these few suggestions prove helpful. Finetooth (talk) 20:35, 29 March 2010 (UTC)