Talk:KDE/GA1

GA Reassessment

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This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force in an effort to ensure all listed Good articles continue to meet the Good article criteria. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, listed below. I will check back in seven days. If these issues are addressed, the article will remain listed as a Good article. Otherwise, it may be delisted (such a decision may be challenged through WP:GAR). If improved after it has been delisted, it may be nominated at WP:GAN. Feel free to drop a message on my talk page if you have any questions, and many thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this article thus far.

• There are two requests for citation, one dating back to March 2008.

• Additional citations are needed in several sections/subsections:
  • Development
  • Organization
  • Fourth series
  • Second and third series

• "On 15 October 2006, it was announced that Mark Shuttleworth had become the first patron of KDE, the highest level of sponsorship available.[10] On 2007-07-07, it was announced ...". Date formats should be consistent, and ISO dates should not appear in the article text.

• The "patron" idea needs to be explained. What kind of sponsorship is provided by the patrons?

• The lead is too short to adequately summarise the article.

• "Many KDE applications have a "K" in the name, mostly as an initial letter and capitalized. However, there are notable exceptions like kynaptic, whose K is not capitalized ...". Either emphasis the "K" consistently with quotation marks or with italics.  Done --Falcorian ^(talk) 22:16, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

• The text needs some copyediting in places. For instance:
  • "... despite the lack of stability and the somewhat developer quality ..."
  • "... the so-called core developers ...". Are they not really core developers then?
  • "In November 1998, the Qt toolkit was dual-licensed under the free/open source Q Public License (QPL) & commercial-license (proprietary software is required to pay a licence fee to Trolltech)." It's not the software that pays licence fees.

• The article gives me no idea at all about the architecture of KDE.

• All of the sources in References need to have last accessed dates, and all of the dates should be formatted consistently.

--Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 21:33, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

• • As these issues remain outstanding, this article has now been delisted. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 15:54, 9 November 2008 (UTC)