Talk:Matthew Cox

message: *Prose etc.
:*Remove bolding in article text, except for the first mention of his name in the lead.
:*Watch for redundancies, the very first sentence contains one: Matthew Bevan Cox (born July 2, 1969), commonly known as Matthew Cox, also sometimes known as Matthew B. Cox and Matt Cox, is an American convicted felon and con man who has been convicted of conspiracy and grand theft.
:*Make sure the lead represents a succinct summary able to stand alone per WP:LEAD, especially with expansion.
:*Try not to use ambiguous terms such as: Authorities (be specific)
*Structure
:*Suggest coming up with a better title for "Similarities between unpublished novel and actual life"
:*See second broadness comment.
:*The hypenated asides are kind of distracting.
:*Copy edit for awkward wording, examples follow (look at the bold):
::*Cox fraudulently obtained vary from $5 million,[1] to over $15 million,[4] to potentially upwards of $25 million.
::*News broadcasts aired showing photos of Cox and Hauck, and requesting viewers to provide information as to their whereabouts.
::*Shortly thereafter, Cox mortgaged several properties on two houses in a few days in Columbia, South Carolina
::*Just all around awkward: The week that Hauck was sentenced to prison, Cox, who at the time was living in Nashville, Tennessee under the name Joseph Carter, narrowly escaped arrest again.
:*To chatty: To begin with, there are physical similarities.
*Broadness
:*"Early life" section is kind of stubby.
:*To really cover all major aspects there should be something more about the two year manhunt/investigation. What agencies were involved? What was the big break? Why didn't they catch him before? What put them onto him? etc. This also comes back to structure, try to organize the article better so its coverage is more well represented.
:*Any current info? Where is he held at? etc. (as such becomes available)
*NPOV?
:*NPOV?: He was so bold in these activities that he even took out one mortgage in the name of "C. Montgomery Burns", in an homage to The Simpsons television character
:*NPOV?: Cox escaped capture this time due to a chance series of events (are we sure it wasn't planned?)
:*NPOV?: was finally arrested by a half dozen
*References
:*Being subject to WP:BLP make sure you go over this article thoroughly for any additional assertions that need citation, here are a couple examples: 
::*At this point, due to remorse and anxiety, Arnold called the FBI and confessed. She was sentenced to two years in prison for numerous charges, including conspiracy to commit bank fraud and identity theft.
::*After filing false documents that indicated he owned the home, Cox took out several mortgages on the property in the amount of several hundred thousand dollars.
::*She was sentenced to two years in prison for numerous charges, including conspiracy to commit bank fraud and identity theft.
::*Arnold called the FBI and confessed
That's all I have for now. If I were to conduct the review today it would look something like the following.IvoShandor 08:48, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Issues/notes

message: Incidentally, it wouldn't hurt to break the lead into a couple paragraphs, large blocks of text are kind of daunting to some. IvoShandor 10:04, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I put a break in the first para, kind of arbitrary though. There could be a better way to split the lead up. Quadzilla99 01:45, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead

message: I am passing this article as I believe it meets the GA criteria. Good work and expand as possible. I went ahead and removed the bold from the women's name per the above comments, I figured you just forgot. Good luck in the future. : ) IvoShandor 12:54, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the review I'll put the disputed text into quote form as recommended above. Quadzilla99 12:56, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds good. And no problem, I just like to be thorough. As FAs should be exemplary, GA should mean something a little extra special. Nice job. IvoShandor 13:04, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

text: *Just in case you wanted to know, I posted the "review" above, the lone no vote for major aspects is only because a few bits of info are missing, i.e. his prison. Just find that noted above and this is fine too, not a major enough issue to halt passing. IvoShandor 13:13, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: GA pass

message: This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. Regards, Ruslik 09:04, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: GA review &mdash; kept

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thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

message: According to the website www.bop.gov. Matthew Bevan Cox release date is now July 19, 2019! RSVIII (talk) 20:10, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release Date from Prison? 

message: Basic information to add to this article (in order to help make it more properly encyclopedic) information about Cox's family background and ethnic heritage. 76.190.213.189 (talk) 00:49, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  To add to article