Talk:Who's Your City?/GA1

GA Review

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Hello, I will be reviewing this article. How refreshing it is to review an article that's actually ready for GAN. With a few minor tweaks, this article should have no problem passing to GA.

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

Is it reasonably well written?
A. Prose quality:
The prose is excellent. See below for specific, picky suggestions for improvement.

B. MoS compliance:
Nice job, but I have one small suggestion. How about dividing the "Synopsis" section into subsections, like "Part 1: Why Place Matters", "Part 2: The Wealth of Place", and "Part 3: The Geography of Happiness", and "Part 4: Where We Live Now". I suggest dividing Part 4 into two paragraphs. That way, the entire section is easier to read. It seems that Florida structured the book to make it more accessible to its readers; there's no reason why you can't do the same.
Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
A. References to sources:
Nice job; very well researched article. I suggest dividing the final paragraph of the "Publication and reception" section into two or more paragraphs, again for readability.

B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:
Good; I'm concerned that most of your sources aren't available online, but just slightly. I know that other editors find issue with this kind of thing, but not me, because I feel it's unreasonable and limiting to expect that a well-written and well-researched article only has easily-accessible sources. I love the Salon quote.

C. No original research:
No problem here.
Is it broad in its coverage?
A. Major aspects:
Nice. One of the best leads I've seen.

B. Focused:
Is it neutral?
Fair representation without bias:
Appears to be neutral.
Is it stable?
No edit wars, etc:
Very stable
Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
A. A little light on the images. This is one of the weakest parts of this article. I think it would make this article even better. How about an image of the author, or maps of the areas the book discusses?:

B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
Needs more images, as per above.
Overall:
Pass or Fail:
Should easily pass with very little improvements.

General comments

I think that with very few improvements, this article should easily pass to GA. I also think that it has the potential to be an FA. As stated above, I had some minor issues with the prose, but as I looked at it more closely, I realized that the prose issues are more substantial than I first thought. I think that it's good enough to pass for GA, though, but I'd suggest that you have someone copyedit it, especially if you want to go further with it. (Often I volunteer to copyedit the articles I review, with permission from the main editor.) If you make the above changes, I'll pass it to GA. --Christine (talk) 13:59, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reviewing. I made the changes suggested above, including adding an image of the author. I don't intend to go for FA on this one. [1] maclean (talk) 19:17, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. I suggest that you add a few more images, but that won't prevent it from passing to GA. I also suggest that you place the image of the author early in the article. The first thing I think when I'm reading an article about a book is, "What does the author look like?" But again, that's personal preference. If you'd like, I can copyedit for you. If not, you should get someone else to do it for you, and then I'll pass it. Nice job! I still think that you should seriously consider submitting it for FA! --Christine (talk) 14:01, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The most relevant ones are non-free so I snuck in a link to them in the first reference; I use the quoteboxes to illustrate my book-articles. I did a copyedit [2] please feel free to edit as well. I've done the FA thing before but I am now more interested in spending my wiki-time improving stub-class articles to GA-class. However, if someone else nominated this, I would file a support vote. -maclean (talk) 20:59, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the cool maps and charts Florida uses in his book! I went ahead and added one image, a map of the Sunbelt, chosen because it was the prettiest free image/map I could find. Hmm, I like your idea about using quoteboxes to illustrate book-articles. It makes so much sense, so I'm stealing it for the Maya Angelou articles that I work on. Although I kinda already do that, because like I said, it makes so much sense. Anyway, congratulations--I will pass this article, and then have a copyedit at it. --Christine (talk) 22:38, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! --maclean (talk) 23:08, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]