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I'm not sure if this article should have been made a TFA, as it isn't in as good a state as it may appear to be at first glance. The dispute over the copyediting in August could possibly have been taken as a warning, but to be clear I don't think this is the fault of any editor in particular.

I've just given the lead an overhaul and given it a sourced paragraph on the building history taken from Pevsner's Buildings of England and the Historic England listing. I'm happy to discuss any of these changes, of course.

While doing this, I noticed that despite the very welcome efforts of @JennyOz earlier today the information on the bishop and dean was out-of-date further down the article. There area also issues with the sources. Some are old enough for their reliability to be dubious, for example Charles Cockerell's Iconography of the West Front of Wells Cathedral, which may be accurate in the essentials but was published in 1851 and therefore pre-dates several major restorations. The article also relies on some fairly flimsy webpages, such as "World's oldest clock? Doubtful" and this page from "Britannia" (not theEncyclopedia Britannica), which again may not be inaccurate per se but which are difficult to verify. The edition of Pevsner used in the body is also the 1958 first edition rather than the 2011 second edition. The version I've used in the lead is revised 1985 account, so still not perfect but at least a little more recent.

The article isn't in terrible shape, I don't think, but it needs a really thorough checking of its sources and for outdated information. It probably isn't at FA standard as it stands. A.D.Hope (talk) 22:07, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@A.D.Hope: WP:FAR is one place where an article's FA status can be discussed. The first step in an FAR is to notify the article on its talk page. Z1720 (talk) 22:27, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I may well open a review, but wanted to see what other editors thought first. A.D.Hope (talk) 22:47, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]