Many editors believe that this page is nearing FA status, though we will like some comment regarding the article as a whole, especially with regards to the content therein. There are plans to incorporate more images. -- Chris Lester talk 11:30, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Nice job, here are my comments:
- Per WP:CONTEXT and WP:MOSDATE, years, decades, and centuries without full dates generally should not be linked. For example, January 2006 should not be linked, instead change it to January 2006. Also, please note WP:BTW and WP:CONTEXT, which state that years with full dates should be linked. For example, February 28, 2006, should be come February 28, 2006.
- Please provide WP:CITE information for references/footnotes. See also WP:CITE/ES; templates like ((Cite web)) and ((Cite book)) may be useful here.
- There is a typo in footnote #5
- There are a few sections that are too short and that should be either expanded or merged. For example, Suburbs is/are a bit short. (I suggest merging)
- This article may be a bit list-weighty; in other words, some of the lists should be converted to prose (paragraph form). For example, see "Tourism".
- I usually don't mind redlinks, but "Communications and media" is full of them! Perhaps at least stubs can be created for them?
- Please do not extraneously bold items outside of the bolding in the lead.
- Images need proper image copyright tags and source information. Specifically, Image:Cape Town city flag.gif need(s) proper image copyright tags.
- Could Three years later, however, the war resumed and it ended in 1814 with a British victory be clarified? Who was the other combatant?
- In some cases, the serial comma is used; in other cases, it isn't. This should be fixed for a consistency (for example, you have such as AIDS, tuberculosis and violent drug-related and economic, social, and health problems are )
- Per WP:MOSNUM, at Units of measurement, numbers with SI units of measure should have conversions in US customary units and vice versa. These conversions should keep to similar values of precision. For example, "the Moon is 380,000 kilometres (240,000 mi) from Earth". Note that the converted unit of measure uses a standard abbreviation, while the source unit is spelled out in the text.
- Per WP:MOSNUM, there should be a no-break space -
between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 18mm, use 18 mm, which when you are editing the page, should look like: 18 mm.
- This article can use copyediting to ensure that the it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. For example,
- During Summer, a thin strip of cloud often forms over the mountain Summer shouldn't be capitalized, and cloud should probably be clouds.
- High school attendance rates and a superior higher education infrastructure has also helped Cape Town to compete globally when compared to other cities in South Africa that have less developed infrastructure and education has->have, plus I'm a bit confused overall with this sentence. Are you comparing Cape Town to other South African cities or are you comparing it globally?
- and perhaps other copyediting fixes for grammar/spelling are needed.
- As is done in WP:FOOTNOTE, for footnotes, the footnote should be located right after the punctuation mark, such that there is no space inbetween. For example, change blah blah [2]. to blah blah.[2]
- Please leave a space between numbers and their units of measure, using the nbsp; as mentioned above.
- In response to AndyZ's second bullet point about date links. This can be done easily using a 'dates' tab in edit mode. Simply copy the entire contents of User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to your own monobook. Make sure you follow the instructions in you monobook to clear the cache. You will also get a 'units' tab. Hope that helps. bobblewik 19:25, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]