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Just a quick drive-by comment: some of the links in your footnotes numbered 84 and 144 aren't going anywhere.
Josh Milburn (
talk) 18:37, 3 July 2016 (UTC}
Overlinks: linking Britain, London, Vienna or Christian is a no-no: see
WP:OVERLINK. Personally I think it's silly to link such familiar or self-explanatory terms as geography, bullying, science, civil service, fan letter and edited volume, which nobody will ever need to click on. Duplicate links to Ordnance Survey, Graham Clark, Avebury, progress and astronomy should be removed; in my view the last two don't need linking once, let alone twice.
I couldn't find any links to Britain, although have removed the links to London, Vienna, Christian, bullying, and science. Some of these, such as
edited volume, I would rather leave in however for I think that many readers, particularly those with no experience of academia, may not be familiar with the specific scholarly concept of the 'edited volume' which differs a little from a simple anthology.
Midnightblueowl (
talk)
12:20, 18 July 2016 (UTC)reply
"First World War" "Second World War" – but later you write "World War I" and "World War II" (and even III). I much prefer the form you have used in the lead, which is the normal BrE (WWI etc being more usual in AmE) but I think you should be consistent one way or the other.
"the Stonehenge Avenue" – you capitalise the definite article in the main text, but not here. Lower case looks more natural to my eye, but either way you should be consistent.
"…remained of use to archaeologists into the 21st century, when he was made the subject of a biography by Kitty Hauser" – I think you're trying to pack too much into the one sentence. It would read more cogently, I’d say, if you recast on the lines of "… into the 21st century. A biography of Crawford by Kitty Hauser was published in XXXX".
"Mackenzie died a few days after her son's birth" – I don't think you can call her Mackenzie at this point, because she was Crawford by then. In family paragraphs like this forenames are permitted, and are often easier for the reader to follow.
"Like his father, they were devout Christians … and under their guardianship Crawford had little contact with other children" – the two parts of this sentence don't seem to go together. It doesn't follow that having devout aunts necessarily causes a child to be isolated, surely?
"Fellow archaeologist Mark Bowden" – you have so far nobly refrained from
false titles, and it would be nice to refrain here, too.
I've gone with "Crawford's fellow archaeologist", however does this still constitute a false title? This is an area that I'm not too clear on.
Midnightblueowl (
talk)
12:10, 18 July 2016 (UTC)reply
No, that's fine. It's fine to call him C's fellow archaeologist, which he was, but just "Fellow archaeologist" on its own is tabloidese nonsense. It's the difference between my calling you "My colleague Midnightblueowl" which makes sense and "Colleague Midnightblueowl", which doesn't, unless "Colleague" ever becomes a genuine title like the Communist "Comrade". I could be "Comrade Riley" but not "Colleague Riley". Tim riley talk18:39, 18 July 2016 (UTC)reply
"in order to return to Britain" – and did he? If so, I'd make this "and returned to Britain".
"at Wells' home in Dunmow" – as we're in BrE, the normal BrE form of possessive would be preferable here: Wells's rather than Wells'. Likewise for Watkins', later.
"discussing geographical methods for delineating cultures, however it did not attempt" – comma splice; and if you must have a "however" here you need a comma after it. Perhaps "although" would be better here.
"His expertise resulted in him being invited" – if I'm being pedantic this construction requires "his" rather than "him" – as "being" is a
gerund here.
"involved him undertaking much fieldwork by travelling…" – this gets a bit tangled: it could be simplified as "involved him in much fieldwork, travelling…"
"previously-recorded sites … previously unknown barrows" – I am never altogether confident about hyphens in such phrases. I don't think you want one here, and you certainly don't want a hyphen in one but not in the other.
"resulting in Crawford being contacted" – another gerund: it strictly needs "Crawford's" rather than "Crawford", but that makes the prose flow like glue, and it may be best to leave it as it is and to Hell with grammar.
"among them Stuart Piggott … Grahame Clark" – is there any particular reason for the order in which the seven names are given? If not, I'd be inclined to go for alphabetical order, which has a nicely neutral appearance.
I'm not sure why the order of names is thus way (perhaps I was just copying the source?). Whatever the reason, I have rearranged the names into an alphabetical order.
Midnightblueowl (
talk)
12:38, 20 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Foreign visits and Marxism
"with the prominent Marxists Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin" – didn't Marx specifically deny being a Marxist?
If I can recall correctly, Marx was in disagreement with what some self-proclaimed "Marxists" were doing, and said "If that's what Marxism is, then I am not a Marxist". However, he is still regularly cited as the founder or co-founder of Marxism and I think it legitimate to describe him thusly here.
Midnightblueowl (
talk)
12:50, 20 July 2016 (UTC)reply
"Un-patriotic" – not usually hyphenated, but perhaps you are using the hyphen for extra emphasis. I just mention it.
"destroy all of his leftist literature lest he be persecuted for possessing them" – singular "literature" has become plural "them" by the end of the sentence.
"exacerbating his pre-existing anger" – a touch tautological: it couldn't have exacerbated something that didn't already exist; I'd lose the "pre-existing".
"involvement with the Labour Party, however he elsewhere" – another comma splice and dubious "however". I suggest replacing "however he elsewhere" with "although he". The prose would be better for the removal of the "However" at the start of the next sentence, too.
"which proved popular and resulted in him receiving a range of fan letters" – another gerund: " him" needs to be "his". And we could do with a citation for the statement. The broadcast itself can be confirmed
here.
"Wheeler – who considered Crawford to be "one of my closest friends" – claimed that the latter…" – you could, if you wanted, streamline this: "Wheeler – who considered him "one of my closest friends" – claimed that Crawford…"
The MoS bids us discreetly edit the punctuation within quotations to make it consistent with the rest of the article and with the MoS: so the spaced em-dashes in "1918 and — say — 1955" should be changed to spaced en-dashes.
Somewhere in the MoS I recall reading the suggestion that "Bibliography" is best avoided as a heading, because it can confuse the reader about whether the list is of books by or about the subject of the biography. For such lists my own practice is to head them "Books by XXXX" or "Publications by XXXX"
A fair point, although if possible I'd rather leave it as "Bibliography", at least for now, in large part because that standardises it with other archaeology biographies I have put together and which have reached FA/GA (
Mortimer Wheeler,
Margaret Murray,
V. Gordon Childe etc). A change to one would presumably necessitate a change to them all.
Midnightblueowl (
talk)
13:08, 20 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Having incurred my mild expostulation for linking everyday words, bless me if you don't hit us with "festschrift", which is not an everyday or even an everydecade word. A link would be a kindness. I see, by the bye, that our WP article says the word is Anglicised enough not to need italicising but not enough to start with a lower-case f. I rather concur, though the OED admits both Festschrift and festschrift.
@
J Milburn: Many thanks for letting me know! I don't know how I missed this (or your previous comment on the matter). I must be getting unobservant in my old age. Will fix these issues right away. Best,
Midnightblueowl (
talk)
14:52, 13 August 2016 (UTC)reply
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