Talk:Hampshire Constabulary

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Hampshire Constabulary was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. Reviewed version: February 11, 2008

[edit] GA failed

This article needs a lot more improvement to get to GA

• The tag at the top of the article sums up the article's problem really; large parts of the article are unsourced and need improved sourcing. The other major problem is the black holes in content
• The lead is too short and needs to be expanded to give a more comprehensive summary of the article
• Single sentence paragraphs need to be merged.
• The history section needs to be filled out more, for instance the first 100 years of history is one small paragraph. The structural reforms leading up to the mergers of the smaller police forces would be important landmarks to explain and expand upon how these occurred and why the government did these things
• The significiant events list needs to be integrated into the history of the prose section. The 1970 Isle of Wight Festival needs to be expanded on so that its relation to law and order can be understood. Ath the moment it is hard to see what a festival has to do with law and order. The significant events seems to imply that the main things to occur to the police force are external mishaps like vehicle crashes, traffic accidents, a police officer getting hit by inclement weather. Were there major initiatives in law enforcement like crackdowns on drug-dealers, anti-corruption investigations, big taskforces against organised crime etc?
• the internal structure of the police is also rather light except for maps of the administrative districts. Do we know what internal facilities they have - surveillance centres, how the divisions work, eg drug divisions, organised crime divisions, riot divisions, traffic divisions etc?
• There is little/no information on how the police heirachy works, anti-corruption watchdogs, police unions, how police are investigated for quality control etc.
• Things like # of cars, budget statistics are missing. #horses for riot control also missing
• Info on what crime happens in the area is totally missing
• The fictional section is unencyclopedic

Best regards, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:46, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much for all of the info about how this article can be improved, I will start fixing the things that you pointed out right away. Thanks --Mifter (talk) 23:31, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree with most of above with one main exception - the fiction section is encyclopedic as it shows how the force is portrayed in the media. It would be hard to argue that this is not either important or adds to the completeness of the article. I will assist where possible.Gaspode the Wonder Dog (talk) 20:55, 18 February 2008 (UTC)