Talk:Spiked (magazine)

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  • "Spiked is edited by Brendan O'Neill,[1] following Mick Hume's departure" is a grammatically incorrect sentence.
  • "by the state or otherwise" is very poor English
  • "They have criticised laws" does not agree in tense with "The magazine"
  • "They have criticised laws" does not agree in tense with "and regularly features"
I could go on and on with further examples from the article.
My question is, if the article is written in such poor English, do you really believe that an intelligent and educated reader will give the article much credence, given the number of gramatical errors within the article, simply because it contains a large number of "citations"?
Maybe you should concern yourself more with assuring that articles are written in good English and less with whether an article contains (so-called) "correct citations"?
And maybe you should defer more to the opinions of one who copy-edits well, and who can write "good English," as that person is very likely to be well-educated (even highly educated) and intelligent as well? What do you think? User4 (talk) 20:15, 4 May 2016 (UTC)