Wikipedia:Peer review/Riley's Lock/archive1

Riley's Lock

I've listed this article for peer review because I would like to improve it to Good Article.

Thanks, TwoScars (talk) 13:52, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Comments from Tim Riley

How could I not review this? Except that I have been through it most carefully and can find nothing of the least importance to suggest by way of improvement. You need to tidy up the inverted commas – no curly ones, please (MoS) – and I'm not sure "half way" should be two separate words, and perhaps the same goes for "night time". In the para that begins "The canal was closed permanently in 1924, but Riley continued working near the lock. The 1930 U.S. Census lists Riley as a canal watchman..." I might make the second "Riley" just "him". Those are all the suggestions I have for tweaking this excellent article, which in my view should do fine at GAN. Tim riley talk 17:23, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Tim riley: - Thank you for looking at Riley's Lock. I made the "halfway" and "nighttime" changes, plus substituted "him" for "Riley" where you recommended. A search on Google agreed with the changes for halfway and nighttime. Can you give me an example of a curly comma? The article was written in a Wikipedia sandbox (not a word processor), so I thought all the commas and apostrophes would be OK. TwoScars (talk) 15:07, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Just a couple or so of curly ones in the sources, which I've now fixed. Tim riley talk 16:15, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

I'll bet it was caused where I copied a title from the web page and pasted it in. Should have re-typed it. Thanks for the help. Is John Riley a distant-distant relative? TwoScars (talk) 17:00, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

If you attempt to count the Rileys descended from Irish emigrants, of whom I am one, you will use up a considerable amount of computer memory. There are a lot of us about. If you take this article to GAN or FAC please ping me and I'll look in. Best wishes, Tim riley talk 19:16, 17 August 2021 (UTC)