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I've listed this article for peer review because I want to get it to Featured Article status and want to know some needed improvements.

Thanks, History6042 (talk) 01:14, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Rublov, just reminding you that you said you could get this done by the end of the week. That's in 3 days. So, if you can't do it by the end of the week that is totally fine. History6042😊 (Contact me) 20:52, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@History6042 done. rblv (talk) 23:18, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. History6042😊 (Contact me) 23:19, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rublov

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Disclaimer: Not an FA reviewer or writer. However, from what I've seen secondhand, it's going to take significant work to get the article to FA quality.

Major concerns:

  • Your first GA reviewer wrote: "Apart from the introductions to the German, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman sections, this reads like a list with some padding. I would expect to see much more discussion of the context and relationships between the various powers." I second this. The scope of the article as written is quite unclear. It covers the war justifications for each major power extensively, but has almost no information about the course of the war itself. There is already plenty of information on Wikipedia about the individual members of the alliance; this article should primarily be about their relations with each other, cooperation, coordination, etc. It would be ideal to find sources about the Central Powers as a unit/concept, rather than about World War I in general or the individual powers.
    • Along these lines, "Collaboration" section is just a list of three apparently unconnected facts. It should be greatly expanded.
  • The numerous lists and tables break up the article and make it difficult to read continuously. I'd remove the tables of declarations of war, at least.
  • Once you have expanded the article as suggested, you should also expand the lead, which is currently rather short.
  • The FA process emphasizes high-quality sources. In this case, there ought to be a wealth of good scholarship. So eyebrows will inevitably be raised for sources like New Zealand History and firstworldwar.com. Anything that's not a peer-reviewed scholarly article or a book published by an expert is going to be suspect.
  • There may also be questions as to how you were able to verify the source-text integrity of sources in Chinese, Italian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Russian, German, Hungarian, etc. Non-English sources are certainly allowed, but if you can find an equally good source for the same information in English, it will cause fewer problems at FA.
  • You might find greater success basing this article on a smaller number of sources that can be used as references for multiple facts, rather than a large number of sources each for only one fact.
  • I don't have the time to spot-check the article's references, but your FA reviewers absolutely will. You must ensure that the claims in the article are supported by the sources that it cites. Any suspicion of inaccuracy, however minor, will immediately imperil your nomination.
  • File:Collapse of the Central Powers.jpg claims to be licensed under the w:Free Art License, but I'm skeptical. The source URL doesn't mention a license but does attribute it to Times Books/HarperCollins Publishers. It's probably protected by copyright and thus ineligible to be in a Wikipedia article. Aside from that, it is quite low-res.

Minor concerns:

  • After successfully beating France in the Franco-Prussian War, – the chronological organization here is confusing; this jumps back to 1871 right after a section that takes place in 1914–17.
  • Aswell as the German Tientsin concession & In Hankou – this text is malformed.
  • Upper Asir section needs more context. Most readers won't know where Asir is located.
  • Romania fought alongside the Central Powers until it rejoined the war against them on November 10, 1918. – This intriguing fact deserves more explanation.
  • After Bulgaria's defeat… – This is an incomplete sentence.

General advice:

Thanks for taking the time to improve Wikipedia. I hope this isn't discouraging. The article is not in a bad state – but the bar at FA is very high. rblv (talk) 23:18, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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