Talk:Mariano Ricafort Palacín y Abarca
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GA Review
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- This review is transcluded from Talk:Mariano Ricafort Palacin y Abarca/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Jezhotwells (talk · contribs) 20:16, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
I shall be reviewing this article against the Good Article criteria, following its nomination for Good Article status.
Disambiguations: One found and fixed.[1] Jezhotwells (talk) 20:19, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Linkrot: none found. Jezhotwells (talk) 20:20, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Checking against GA criteria
[edit]- It is reasonably well written.
- a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
- Oh dear, this is not "reasonably well written", in fact the prose is very poor. Examples:
- He was son of ; In October of 1799, he was promoted into first lieutenant. "into"?; He was promoted into a brigadier - again "into"; He was in Peru then, under the expedition of General Pablo Morillo. - "He was in Peru at that time"?; after being an idle property at the death of Colonel Jose Miguel "after being an idle property"?;
- OK, this needs a thorough line-by-line copy-edit by someone with a good command of written English.
- The lead does not summarize the article, see WP:LEAD. The sentence He was a kind and able administrator, a governor of good judgment and much energy. is a point of view statement.
- a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
- It is factually accurate and verifiable.
- a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
- What makes http://www.spot.ph/ a reliable source?
- What makes http://www.carabayllo.net/distritos/canta/3533-la-batalla-de-quiapata.html a reliable source?
- What makes http://www.baguionews.net/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2660:-an-unauthorized-history-of-the-philippines-7th-in-a-series&catid=6:features&Itemid=13 a reliable source?
- Spot checks indicate that statements are supported by cites.
- a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
- It is broad in its coverage.
- a (major aspects): b (focused):
- I don't think much care has been taken in the preparation of this article so I find it hard to determine whether the coverage is broad. The later sections of the article gloss over various significant appointments. There is no sense of what he dis, just a list of jobs. I found the statement The region [Extremdura] ceased to exist by the same year puzzling, as well as ungrammatical. I visited Extremadura earlier this year and I can assure you that it is still there.
- a (major aspects): b (focused):
- It follows the neutral point of view policy.
- Fair representation without bias:
- The sentence in the lead needs addressing.
- Fair representation without bias:
- It is stable.
- No edit wars, etc.:
- Stable, 99% of edits by nominator.
- No edit wars, etc.:
- It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
- a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
- The image appears to be non free and I have nominated it for deletion at Commons.
- a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
- Overall:
- Pass/Fail:
- A definite fail. I think you need to familiarise yourself with the good article criteria. Get someone to copy-edit the article, then take it to peer review before renominating at GAN. Jezhotwells (talk) 21:01, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Pass/Fail:
File:Mariano Ricafort.jpg Nominated for Deletion
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A couple of suggestions
[edit]G'day, I have undertaken a quick copy edit of this article. Hopefully it is a bit smoother now, but I would recommend asking someone over at WP:GOCE have a look at it before taking the article towards WP:GAN. I think that the article is close to B class now, although there are a couple more things to cover off on first. In this regard, I think a couple of extra citations are needed and I have marked where I think they are needed. I also think that the lead should be expanded a bit to summarise the entire article and the section on the subject's time in Cuba probably needs expansion. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 11:14, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
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