Talk:Maria Rasputin/GA1

GA Reassessment[edit]

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I will be doing the GA Reassessment for this article per the GA Sweeps. H1nkles (talk) 03:43, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Her strong body seemed about to burst out of its cashmere dress and smelled of sweat." This seems like a quote, but there isn't quotation marks. Is this a quote?
St. Petersburg is linked too many times. Per WP:LINK once in the lead and once in the body of the article is fine.
What is the significance of this quote? "In April 1918, as the Tsar and Tsarina were traveling to their final exile at Ekaterinburg, Alexandra looked out the window of the train at Pokrovskoye and saw Rasputin's family and friends staring back at them from the window of Rasputin's house."
There are several sentences at the end of the "Life after the revolution" section dealing with Rasputin's husband, Solviev. I'm not really sure what this has to do with Rasputin? Is there a way to link Rasputin to these activities or to get her impression of what her husband was doing?
"She also worked as a cabaret dancer in Bucharest, Romania" duplicative information already said in the first sentence of this section.
I added a ^{[citation needed]} template to this sentence, "She is interred in Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery."
References check out, format for citing books is a little off, they are missing the location of the publisher but that's not a big deal for GA.

(Outdent) Here are my concerns with the article when I put it up against the GA Criteria:

MOS compliance: WP:LEAD indicates that the lead is supposed to be a summary of the article. The lead is missing several main parts of the article.
Comprehensive: To me the article seems to be lacking information. What effect did her father's death have on her? What did she do after his death? Did she immediately marry? What was her life like with Soloviev prior to escape to Bucharest? Why did they move to Bucharest? this isn't outlined int he article.
Cite needed: I put one reference needed tag, this should be easy to cite though.
Prose: The writing is ok, not great.

For me as the reviewer, if it were one or two of these I would pass it and move of but with all of these together it's enough that I feel I should hold it for work to be done. I'll give it one week. So I will hold the article and if you have questions you can either ask them here or on my talk page. H1nkles (talk) 04:16, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]