Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Anna Politkovskaya/1

Anna Politkovskaya[edit]

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Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch • Watch article reassessment page • GAN review not found

Result: delisted Although there has been little comment on the GAR, there still remain a number of citation needed tags whixh are unaddressed since July, also a close paraphrase notice. As no-one has done much to address this and there have been no comments in over three weeks, I am closing this as delist. Jezhotwells (talk) 20:41, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this article for GAR because:

It lacks in-line citations, especially in the sections "Following the acquittal" and "Awards". In the section "Anna Politkovskaya Award" not a single reference
Several dead links and redirects
The article's structure is in my opinion really bad; it contains too much mini-sections, which can be easily merged with other sections. The beginning is OK, but sections like "Poisoning", only 2 sentences, are really unnecessary.
Several m-dashes make it hard to read
The references require a MOS clean-up

Currently I don't think it passes the GA criteria. --♫Greatorangepumpkin♫_Hey ^{it's me}_{I am dynamite} 20:32, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Some of your reasons are irrelevant: The GA criteria do not prohibit dead links or redirects. In fact, removing them may violate WP:DEADREF (which was revised a few months ago, so you might want to read it again). GAs are not required to have consistently formatted citations.

The lack of citations in one large section is certainly a significant problem, but some of the others are fairly trivial. Have you attempted to fix the simpler problems that you identify? The primary goal of GAR is to get problems fixed, not to de-list articles without lifting a finger. WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:50, 15 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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