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Starting GA reassessment as part of the GA Sweeps process. Jezhotwells (talk) 18:55, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Checking against GA criteria
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In order to uphold the quality of Wikipedia:Good articles, all articles listed as Good articles are being reviewed against the GA criteria as part of the GA project quality task force. While all the hard work that has gone into this article is appreciated, unfortunately, as of August 5, 2009, this article fails to satisfy the criteria, as detailed below. For that reason, the article has been delisted from WP:GA. However, if improvements are made bringing the article up to standards, the article may be nominated at WP:GAN. If you feel this decision has been made in error, you may seek remediation at WP:GAR.
- It is reasonably well written.
- a (prose):
- The prose in clumsy in places and would benefit from a thorough copy-edit to improve clarity and readability. There are a few instances of weasel words. e.g. arguably; exceptional; cynical; - if these derive from sources they would be OK if directly attributed to the source author. Jezhotwells (talk) 19:22, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- b (MoS):
- It is factually accurate and verifiable.
- a (references):
- b (citations to reliable sources):
- c (OR):
- It is broad in its scope.
- a (major aspects):
- b (focused):
- It follows the neutral point of view policy.
- Fair representation without bias:
- It is stable.
- 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):
- Overall:
- Pass/Fail: