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Pinned Thread: Consensus on usage of "Catherine" vs. "Kate", "Kate Middleton"

Closed as an explanatory thread. Safiel (talk)

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The Wikipedia Community has reached a consensus on "Catherine" vs "Kate" in favor of Catherine. Please do not post threads on this subject without at least reading the following threads:

There are numerous additional threads on this subject in the archives as well. Safiel (talk)

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Feedback

I was asked by MSincccc to provide some feedback here and while a lot of this article is out of my depth, I will give it a shot.

I'm noticing a couple single setence paragraphs which are a violation of MOS:LAYOUT
Make sure that acronyms are spelt out in full during first usage like (random example) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Be careful with WP:PROSELINE, while not specifically apart of the FA criteria, it may be frowned upon by some reviewers
You have a couple different types of bundled refs going on. I would stick to one style of bundled refs.
For the book sources, it still seems to be majority of news type sources and not books or better sources. For section such as Ancestry, Titles, styles, and honours, and her personal + public life, I would be suprised if you couldn't find more book sources. Did you read through some more reliable sources on Kate and figure out which sources could be replaced with higher quality sources? Especially with biographies, people at FAC have very high expectations of the sourcing. I would expect you would run into issues at FAC with the current level of sourcing.

Hopefully this can help a bit. Best of luck! IntentionallyDense ^(Contribs) 20:14, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]