Talk:Troyte Griffith

Real estate advertising as cites for architecture articles

Sometimes these work out OK, if they are centered on the architect; or the structure, if the structure is unchanged enough. The two pieces cited, though, do neither. Qwirkle (talk) 21:52, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

Did anyone ever study architecture at Harrow?

Aside from “on one’s own” or “in passing?”. Qwirkle (talk) 06:10, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank for points that, corrected, thank you! A.Classical-Futurist (talk) 23:40, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Peer review

Troyte Griffith

I've listed this article for peer review because I want to try to nominate the article for GA status, but want to know if I should add to or improve parts of it prior.

Thanks, A.Classical-Futurist (talk) 03:25, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

Comments from Z1720

Comments after a quick skim:

• In answer to your question: yes I think information should be added to the article because it is quite short. Additional sources for the article can be found at Google Scholar, [www.archive.org archive.org], WP:LIBRARY or databases that your local library system has access to.
• If any sources analyse his artistic style, I would add a section that describes that.
• I'm not sure why there is a quote in the "Enigma Variations" section. I suggest removing the quote or giving it context.
• Ref 25 adn 28 are the same ref, so I suggest merging them.
• Ref 23: "Padgett, Robert W. (2016-06-13)." seems to be a wordpress website. Why is this a reliable source? If it isn't reliable it should bee removed.

I hope this helps. Z1720 (talk) 15:07, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! A.Classical-Futurist (talk) 20:20, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Comments from Tim riley

An interesting article, containing much I didn't know. The prose could do with a bit of work to meet Wikipedia's standards.

First WP:OVERLINK: you should not have blue links for everyday terms:

• architect
• architectural work
• artist
• London
• painting
• piano
• secretary
• Spain
• treasurer
• And you should avoid linking more than once to any other page as you do with Edward Elgar (three links) and Malvern (two links)

Individual comments:

• ""Troyte," by his friend, Edward Elgar" – Wikipedia uses logical punctuation, and so the comma after Troyte should come after the closing quotation mark.
• "October 27th, 1883" – In Wikipedia the mandatory format for dates in BrE articles is day month year. No st, nd, rd or th or commas. Thus 27 October 1883.
• "painting abroad in Spain" – I think your readers will realise without being told that for an English person Spain is abroad.
• "In Malvern, 1896, Griffith was employed " – missing a second "in"?
• "He would work there until 1935 … he would remain there until his death" – repetitious use of "he would". A plain past tense would be better in one or both cases.
• "he design the Toposcope" – past tense needed for the verb.
• "a number of local houses" – woolly. How many? If the precise number is unknown some indication of how many would be an improvement – a few, quite a lot, many…?
• "held those position" – plural noun needed.
• "in which he was elected secretary and treasurer in its inaugural meeting" – strange choices of preposition: one might expect "of which" and "at its".
• "February 28th, 1899." – date format.
• "he was elected the club's president after the death of member Hugh Bennett" – hideously clunky false title, and moreover unclear. Was Bennett the incumbent? Better to say so if so: "the death of the incumbent, Hugh Bennett".
• "Griffith died on January 17th, 1942" – date format
• "His funeral was held 4 days later, " – usual to use words for numbers up to at least ten.
• "January 21st" – date format
• " the tempo Presto," – capital letter not wanted
• "in their eighteenth century home " – "eighteenth-century" needs a hyphen
• "published January 1, 2012" – date format.

I hope these points are of help. Tim riley talk 11:32, 8 February 2026 (UTC)