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Wangari Maathai

I've recently significantly expanded the article, primarily through the use of her autobiography Unbowed. I have attempted to add various other references throughout at the more possibly contentious points, as of course her autobiography will reflect on her more favorably. I'm hoping to bring this article to GA status soon, and then hopefully to continue towards FA. As biographies aren't necessarily my forte, I was hoping for some assistance from the Wikiproject to further improve the article. -- PEPSI2786^talk 06:27, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Review by Hekerui

A few quick points on style:

• Headings shouldn't start with "the", per WP:HEAD
• For an article of this length, the lead can be expanded to summarize the article better.
• Some dates should be delinked per MOS:UNLINKDATES.
• Footnotes should directly follow the text with no space (there are some that don't).
• A picture that doesn't fill out the infobox width of 225px can be scaled to its natural size (here 175px).
• "February 28th, 1992" should be "February 28, 1992".
• I think the long quotes in "Controversy" subsection can be summarized.
• Typos:

  "womens rights" to "women's rights"

  "colocated" to "collocated"

  "it's focus on the environment" to "its focus on the environment"

  "minitstyr" to "ministry"

  "a bogus organization and it's members" to "a bogus organization and its members"

  "hte case was thrown out" to "the case was thrown out"

  "the governments response" to "the government's response"

  "beseiged" to "besieged"

  "across from Uhuru park" to "across from Uhuru Park"

Hekerui (talk) 10:55, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

I've gone through and corrected most of the issues you've mentioned, adding a to the one's I have done. Thanks for the help. -- PEPSI2786^talk 17:41, 3 May 2009 (UTC)