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Significant contributions

• Broadstairs‎
• List of schools in Kent
• List of U2 awards
• List of people from Kent
• 1354, 1355, 1356, 1357, 1358, 1359, 1360, 1361, 1362, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1367, 1368, 1369, 1370, 1371, 1372, 1373, 1374, 1375, 1376, 1377, 1378, 1379, 1380, 1381, 1382, 1383, 1384, 1385, 1386, 1387, 1388, 1389, 1390, 1391, 1392, 1393, 1394, 1395, 1396, 1397, 1398, 1399, 1400, 1401, 1402, 1403, 1404

Articles I've reviewed for GA

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Articles I've helped delete

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Grammar and layout checklist

• The lead needs to adequately summarize the content of the article. (GA criteria)
• There should not be anything in the lead not mentioned in the rest of the article. (GA criteria)
• Wikilinks should only be made if they are relevant to the context. Common words do not need wikilinking.
• A word only needs to be wikilinked once within each section.
• Only full dates or dates with a day and a month should be linked. The same applies to dates in the footnotes.
• External links only belong in the External links section.
• It is recommended not to specify the size of images. The sizes should be what readers have specified in their user preferences.
• Text should not be sandwiched between two adjacent images. (GA criteria)
• Left-aligned images should not be placed at the start of sections.
• All fair-use images need a fair use rationale. (GA criteria)
• Images need succinct captions. (GA criteria)
• An images caption should only end with a full-stop if it forms a complete sentence. (GA criteria)
• Each statement that is likely to be challenged needs an inline citation. (GA criteria)
• Book references need the author, publishing date and page number. (GA criteria)
• Book references preferably should include the publisher, city of publication and ISBN.
• Web references need the author, publisher, publishing date and access date. (GA criteria)
• Web references preferably should include the language (if not English) and format (if a PDF file).
• Blogs and personal websites are not reliable sources, unless written by the subject of the article. (GA criteria)
• Dead web references should be replaced if possible, but not deleted. (GA criteria)
• Inline citations belong immediately after punctuation marks. (GA criteria)
• Portal links belong in the "See also" section. (GA criteria)
• "Further info" links belong at the top of sections. (GA criteria)
• Lists should only be included if they can't be made into prose or their own article. (GA criteria)
• Lists within prose should be avoided. (GA criteria)
• En dashes are used for ranges, em dashes are used for punctuation.
• " " (non-breaking space) should be typed between numbers and units.
• Imperial measurements should be accompanied by the metric equivalent in brackets, and vice versa. If possible, use a convertion template, eg. {{convert|5|mi|km|0}}.
• Whole numbers under 11 should be spelled out as words, except when in lists, tables or infoboxes.
• Sentences should not start with a numeral. The sentence should be recast or the number should be spelled out.
• Usually, only the first word in a section heading needs a capital letter.
• Short sections and paragraphs are discouraged. (GA criteria)
• Ampersands should not be used (except when in a name, eg., Marks & Spencer)
• "Past few years" has a different meaning to "last few years".
• "within" has a different meaning to "in".
• Initials in people's names need full-stops.
• Hyphens shouldn't be placed after -ly words, eg. widely-used word (except if the ly- word could also describe the noun, eg. friendly-looking man)
• "century" doesn't have a capital.
• "While" should only be used when emphasising that two events occur at the same time, or when emphasising contrast. It shouldn't be used as an additive link.
• Using "with" as an additive link leads to wordy and awkward prose, eg. "the town has ten councillors, with one being the district mayor" → "the town has ten councillors; one is the district mayor"
• Beginning a sentence with "there", when "there" doesn't stand for anything, leads to wordy prose. The same applies to "it". Eg. There are ten houses in the village → The village has ten houses
• "by" is sometimes an indicator of passive voice.
• The words "current", "recent" & "to date" should be avoided as they become outdated. (GA criteria)
• Avoid using "not", eg. "songs previously not heard" → "songs previously unheard"
• Avoid contractions, such as can’t, he's or they're.
• Avoid Weasel Words, such as "it is believed that", "is widely regarded as", "some have claimed". (GA criteria)
• Avoid Peacock Terms, such as "beautiful", "famous", "popular", "well-known", "significant", "important" and "obvious". (GA criteria)
• Avoid informal words, such as "carry out", "pub", "though", "tremendous" and "bigger".
• Avoid overly formal words, such as "circa", "utilise", "whilst", "upon", "commence", "the majority of", "lack", "whereas", "generate", "due to the fact that" and "prior to".
• Avoid vague words, such as "various", "many", "several", "long", "a number of", "just", "very" and "almost".
• Avoid phrases with redundant words, such as "is located in", "the two are both", "they brought along", "they have plans to", "they were all part of", "the last ones to form", "both the towns", "outside of the town", "all of the towns", "received some donations", "still exists today", "it also includes others", "many different towns", "near to the town", "available records show", "to help limit the chance", "christian church", "in order to", "first began", "joined together", "future plans" and "in the year 2007".

Userboxes

This user demands you respect my authoritah! FLOWERY TWATS This user has stayed at Fawlty Towers. MWC A fat woman came into this user's shoe store today. OF ITG I don't believe it! This user is a fan of One Foot in the Grave! Template:User Pro-EU This user is a footballer. 1st This user has a First-Class Honours degree. ?met? This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans and Brits have such a hard time with them. This user is an advanced mathematician. This user is pretty sure that they are an outlier compared to everybody else. 13,000+ This user has made more than 13,000 contributions to Misplaced Pages.

This user is a skeptic. This user loves the Winter. This user supports renewable energy. YA This user is a young adult. This user comes from KENT: The Garden of England Majority ≠ right This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake. ANAL 2 This user rely's on others better grammar too fix there article's. "…"? This user thinks "British punctuation is best for quotation marks". Do you? This editor is not an administrator and does not wish to be one. This user feels that fair use images have no place in a free content encyclopedia.

This user feels that deletions subject to a popularity contest rather than a verifiability test damage Misplaced Pages more than any userbox ever could. This user wastes far too much time editing Misplaced Pages. <ref> This user would like to see everyone using inline citations. Please... This user opposes the use of capital punishment. This user believes that life begins at conception This user thinks nationalism is outdated. Lab This user supports the Labour Party. atheos This user is an atheist. respect This user respects others' religions and realises not all people wish to follow the same path. ISTJ This user's MBTI type is ISTJ.

Awards

For your relentless edits and attempts to bring articles to GA status (especially Sale). Your help is very much appreciated. Nev1 09:39, 24 May 2007 (UTC)	This editor is a Yeoman Editor, and is entitled to display this Service Badge.
I have awarded you this medal for your work in helping to reduce the backlog during the Good Article Candidates Backlog Elmination Drive. You reviewed five or more articles during the drive, which helped to contribute to the large decrease in the backlog. If you have the time, please continue to review articles to help make sure the backlog does not jump back up to what it was. Good job and happy editing! Nehrams2020 06:12, 15 June 2007 (UTC)	What a Brilliant Idea! Cutting 10kb of the Social class in the United States just by modifying the reference mark-up. Thanks for your great work! Signature 17:51, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
File:Interlingual Barnstar.png For your efforts on improving and promoting the towns and cities of the United Kingdom throughout Misplaced Pages! It is much appreciated! Jza84 21:10, 16 August 2007 (UTC)	Thank you for your participation in the GAC backlog elimination drive! ¿SFGiДnts! 20:47, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for reviewing and co-ordinating the GAC backlog elimination drive. OhanaUnited 01:44, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

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