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Florence Nightingale

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I've listed this article for peer review because it is a vital article, and is in poor condition. I have done some editing on this article, but still needs lots of work and guiding.

Thanks in advance, Thelifeofan413 (talk) 16:57, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Tim riley

Doesn't look all that bad to me. A few thoughts from a quickish skim-through:

We could do without the load of citations in the lead: a lead should summarise the detailed and cited material from the main text and doesn't need citations of its own except for quotations in direct speech.
On the other hand a few more citations wouldn't go amiss in the main text: penultimate para of Early life; first para of Crimean War; second para of Literature and the women's movement, and footnotes c and k.
For date ranges, as in "Collected Works of Florence Nightingale (2001-2012)" the hyphen should be an unspaced en-dash (MoS)
Duplicate links, once taboo, are now, I gather, no longer regarded as a capital offence. All the same, you might like to revisit those for Crimean War, Ottoman Empire (twice), Mary Clarke, Eliza Roberts, BBC (twice), The Times, Crimea, coxcomb, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Florence Nightingale Museum (twice), St Thomas' Hospital, Claydon House, Alexis Soyer, Aldershot, Lytton Strachey (twice), Eminent Victorians (ditto), Charles Dickens, Mark Bostridge and Church of England.
And my biggest complaint about the article in its present state: there are just too many images crowding each other out and sandwiching the text between them. There are examples of the latter in Early life, Crimean War, Biographies and Other. As you have a nice Gallery at the end of the article you could move a few images down there to relieve the overcrowding in the main text.

I hope these few hasty thoughts are of some use. Tim riley talk 12:34, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have finished all your comments, apart from the references. Is there anything else needing work? Thelifeofan413 (talk) 19:42, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

History6042

To make this article as good as possible you should;

Add alt texts to all images.
Add archives to all sources possible.
Remove Sribd as a source.
Remove IMDB as a source.
Remove the gallery section per WP:GALLERY.
Remove excessive imagery, it makes it a pain to read the article on mobile.
Add "The Lady with the Lamp" to the others names section in the infobox.
Add Google Books links to all books.
The sentence in the Lady with the Lamp section needs an inline citation.
Add her parents and sister to the infobox.
Ping when done. History6042😊 (Contact me) 17:39, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I added most of your comments, but can you check the current state of the article before I add the last point. Sorry for the late response. Thelifeofan413 (talk) 17:06, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@History6042. Forgot to ping. Thelifeofan413 (talk) 13:31, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]