Talk:Hannah Spencer/GA1

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Nominator: GearsDatapacks (talk · contribs) 21:29, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Reviewer: JuniperChill (talk · contribs) 01:18, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi GearsDatapack, I'll go ahead and review this. Expect comments within a few days/a week. JuniperChill (talk) 01:18, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Just as an update, the reason why I waited six days was to ensure that the article wasn't edited several times a day, which was getting to the point it even had to be protected from editing. The page was last edited on 17 March at 2336 (exactly 72 hours ago). I should do a proper review from tomorrow or Sunday. JuniperChill (talk) 23:36, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
And the article was edited an hour after the above comment. And the GA nominator ranks 4th in authorship with 7.8% so its considered to be a significant contributor even though GD didn't originally create the article. JuniperChill (talk) 17:20, 21 March 2026 (UTC)
@JuniperChill Just so you know, I'm on holiday until next weekend so it might take me a bit longer to respond to feedback here. I'll do my best though. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 15:03, 30 March 2026 (UTC)
is that until 4/5 April or 11/12 April? Didn't realise its already the easter season JuniperChill (talk) 15:56, 30 March 2026 (UTC)
I'm away until the 11th, but I should be able to check and do stuff once a day during that time. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 18:45, 30 March 2026 (UTC)
Have a nice holiday! Maybe because of the fact that its half term, and that Friday, Sunday and Monday are bank holidays. Can't believe its already the end of March! I'll start doing the process of checking some of the sources. I'd better take a pause from editing (at least for a couple days) after reviewing this! JuniperChill (talk) 23:13, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Closing comment: thank you for your time improving a Green MP as your first GA! This was one of the best GAs I've reviewed yet! You can find GAs I've reviewed in my user page. I'm not really into politics as its not really a topic I edit in. Much of my edits are to transport infrastructure, video games and women. I hope you have a nice holiday in Morocco, a country I haven't gone to yet! I'll go ahead and promote this article to GA status while you're there and I'll take a short pause from editing cause of the half term! JuniperChill (talk) 11:32, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

Prose review (1)

Lead

  • I think the lead should be expanded a little, perhaps by a couple of sentences. For instance, you could expand it saying that she was born in Greater Manchester and that she's been a plumber since c. 2008. (for reference, you can take a look at Sophie Scamps as that article is a little longer than this one).
    • I've expanded the lead with information about her training as a plumber and other trades, as well as mentioning her opposition to greyhound racing getting her into politics. Let me know what you think. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 22:31, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
      • (sorry for the delay as i was a little ill) The lead is now great. Thank you for expanding it! I have linked Greater Manchester as its not a city everyone knows (almost everyone knows Greater London) JuniperChill (talk) 14:02, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
        • And now the lead has been expanded to almost 300 words which i've trimmed slightly JuniperChill (talk) 17:28, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Early life/education

  • In England, isn't it normal for students to leave school after doing their GCSEs in year 11, where they should turn 16 by the end of the summer holidays?ref If so, I don't see a need to mention that 'she left school at 16'.
    • It is legal to leave school at 16, but most stay on until 18 to do A-levels (and then most go to university after that). While it's not unheard of, it is unusual and I would say it warrants a mention here, especially because most British MPs have a much higher traditional education, whereas she went into work early. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 22:18, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
      • In England, its currently a legal requirement to stay in higher education until 18 (as the link I provided suggest) which I think wasn't the case in 2007. But anyway its fine by me as I didn't think it was out of the ordinary. JuniperChill (talk) 14:37, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
  • In February 2026, she also qualified as a plasterer it doesn't say anything earlier in the early life/education section about Feb 2026, so i think 'also' should be removed?
    • The way I understand it, "also" here refers to her qualifying as a plasterer in addition to a plumber and gas engineer. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 14:42, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
    my bad, I didn't know that the 'also' was about the profession, not the time period. JuniperChill (talk) 15:02, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

Political career

  • She also commented that she approved of the Green Party's member-led policy-making. remove 'of'?
    • Removing "of" would make it read she approved the Green Party's member-led policy making, which makes it sound like member-led policy-making was proposed, and Spencer, in a position of authority, approved it. This is not the case, she merely approved of it as a concept. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 18:00, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
      • Ah ok. I didn't think removing one word would completely change the meaning. It also made more sense when I re-read it a few more times. JuniperChill (talk) 20:49, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
  • She campaigned on addressing the cost-of-living crisis and the climate crisis perhaps 'crisis' only needs to be mentioned once in the same sentence.
  • and providing more support for domestic violence victims 'domestic abuse victims' seems to read better for me.

parliamentary career

Election

  • lower energy bills, partly through improved home insulation; and free prescriptions to lower energy bills (partly through improved home insulation); and free prescriptions as the sentence makes sense and flows better when not reading the bracketed bit
  • 'Labour Party' can simply be shortened to just 'Labour' as its clear from context that it refers to the party
  • Some instances of 'Spencer' can be substituted for 'she' or 'her' because I see Spencer mentioned twice in two sentences.
  • I've checked this Times source (checked via the archive) and the article says Spencer attended some campaign events accompanied by security but the source says For Spencer, 34, who now needs security when attending official events which suggests she now needs security when attending events.
  • In Spencer's acceptance speech after her election was announced, she addressed those who had voted for her, those who had not, "our Muslim communities" and "our white working-class communities", along with a child she had met while campaigning, to whom she said... this sentence feels awkward for me to read because its so long. I suggest adding a full stop somewhere and rewording it if necessary
    • I've split it into two sentence. Let me know if you think it's better now. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 21:11, 29 March 2026 (UTC)
    I cleared up that edit by removing the left-behind "with". PamD 04:15, 30 March 2026 (UTC)
      • (replying to both) it looks better now! JuniperChill (talk) 23:13, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Early tenure

personal life

  • change As of 2024, Spencer lived in Trafford. She had previously lived in Levenshulme to As of 2024, Spencer lived in Trafford, Greater Manchester. She had previously lived in Levenshulme (also in Greater Manchester) as I assume readers would expect these two places to be in random parts of England (for me, I expected Levenshulme to be somewhere in the north of England outside the Manchester/Liverpool region)
    • I've added the note to Trafford, but since it mentions that Lenshulme is in Gorton and Denton, I think it can be inferred by the reader that it's also in Manchester. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 21:11, 29 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Earwig returned 25% similarity, which is largely down to her quote from the Guardian 'I promised you I would try and improve the world...' so no problems there. JuniperChill (talk) 22:40, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
  • However, I found a source from The Canary (not the Norwich football club), which is unreliable per WP:RSP. The youtube source is fine as two of them are from Novara and the other one is from Ed Poole interviewing her. JuniperChill (talk) 23:00, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
    I'll fix the Canary source tomorrow. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 23:23, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
    thank you. I will continue on with the review within several hours time (ie, before midnight UTC) JuniperChill (talk) 16:34, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

Spotchecks

I'll be checking 11/62 (17.7%) sources. Source numbers are checked according to revision 31/03/2026 1702. JuniperChill (talk) 23:26, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

  • 2 - not sure what that MEN source is doing, seeing as its only used once, and it has no mention of 'Katherine' JuniperChill (talk) 23:26, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
    • It does include "Kathrine", you just need to scroll down to the live results section and expand the box that says "Hale". {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 07:30, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
      • checkY found it! I didn't think it would be hidden in the results section. (My comment was a typo, but nether 'Kathrine' nor 'Katherine' appear in the main body anyway) JuniperChill (talk) 10:43, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
  • 5 - checkY
  • 11 - checkY
  • 15 - checkY
  • 20 - checkY
  • 30 - checkY
  • 36 - checkY
  • 40 - checkY (archive link as this is a paywall; already checked earlier)
  • 43 - checkY
  • 50 - checkY
  • 56 - checkY (i accidentally checked 11 instead of 10, but all of the sources check out)

Other criteria (3-6)

  • 3 -  Broad - article is broad as it talks about her life from when she left school at 16 to become a plumber, to when she became the MP for Gorton and Denton last month. JuniperChill (talk) 21:32, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
  • 4 -  Neutral - article is neutral and BLP compliant JuniperChill (talk) 21:32, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
  • 5 -  Stable - (see also my above comment) The article is currently stable as the last time the edit was reverted was on the 17th, although according to the criteria reverts due to vandalism are not counted. Likewise, I don't see any edit war happening over the last 7 days. I couldn't believe this article was edited over 100 times on the 27th. JuniperChill (talk) 17:20, 21 March 2026 (UTC)
  • 6 -  Illustrated - [note: this was the review of File:Hannah_Spencer_(cropped)2.jpg. A review of the new image is below] this article only has one image. It is relevant to the article, has captions and has been tagged with a copyright status saying that the image is in the public domain JuniperChill (talk) 17:27, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

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