Talk:Bobby Sands/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Nikkimaria (talk) 19:47, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I'll be evaluating this article for possible GA status. My review should be posted shortly. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 19:47, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately I don't feel this article meets the GA criteria at this time. I would encourage you to work to address the below concerns. Feel free to renominate once you feel they've been addressed. Nikkimaria (talk) 20:21, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Writing and formatting

Lead should be longer to meet WP:LEAD
Given that this is technically a biography, having a level-2 heading called "Life" seems very strange. Why not just have the subsections of Life be sections in their own right? In general, organization in this article needs work
"His parents, John and Rosaleen, had another son, John, in 1962. On leaving school, he became" - John or Bobby became?
Many very short paragraphs that should be merged to improve flow
West or west Belfast?
Needs some general copy-editing for clarity and flow
"He was survived by his parents, siblings, and a young son (Gerard) from his marriage to Geraldine Noade" - this reads as if he and Geraldine were no longer married. Is that the case? If so, should be more explicit in the circumstances of her departure earlier
Why does the Asia subsection use bulleted points?
External links should be the last subsection per WP:LAYOUT
Don't repeat links from the article text in See also

Accuracy and verifiability

See here for a list of dead/broken links
"Frank Maguire...died suddenly of a heart attack" - source?
In late 1980 Sands was chosen as Officer Commanding of the IRA prisoners in Long Kesh, succeeding Brendan Hughes who was participating in the first hunger strike. - source?
Sands decided that other prisoners should join the strike at staggered intervals in order to maximise publicity with prisoners steadily deteriorating successively over several months. - source?
The 1981 British Home Championship football tournament was cancelled following the refusal of teams from England and Wales to travel to Northern Ireland in the aftermath of his death due to security concerns. - source?
In the Irish general elections held the same year, two anti H-block candidates won seats on an abstentionist basis. - source?
Don't include external links in article text
References section needs lots of cleaning up. All book sources should have author, title, date, publisher and page numbers. All web sources should have title, URL, publisher and retrieval date. All newspapers should have either a page number or a URL

Broad

"The Americas" - a single non-US sentence does not mean that this section covers the entire hemisphere. Is there more information available on non-US American reaction? If not, might as well make this exclusively about the US
"Reaction to death" could stand to be trimmed a bit, as some points seem over-emphasized/trivial

Neutrality

"the family were forced to move" - forced by whom/what?

Stability

No issues noted

Images

Captions should be grammatically correct
File:Bobbyinlongkesh1973.jpg - PD-ineligible does not apply to this image, licensing tag needs replacing