Talk:2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Dawnseeker2000 (talk · contribs) 00:57, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Let me be right up front about what I see. This is a premature nomination by a new editor and I will be quick failing it. To the nominator: the steps to nominate articles for good article review were not taken. The first item on the list is "Ensure that the article meets Wikipedia policies and guidelines as expected of any article, including neutral point of view, verifiability, no original research, and notability". Did you read the entire article before nominating it? If you did, you may have noticed that the article does not meet one of the basic policies: verifiability. There are multiple paragraphs without sources.

To expand a little bit further about the article. It is one of the most disorganized earthquake articles in WP:Earthquake's catalog. After a massive amount of uncoordinated text was added over the last couple of years, I lowered its assessment for our WikiProject from B to C because the text is presented in a way that lacks readability and it also contradicts itself. The layout is also lacking. Articles that are nominated for the higher classifications need to look the part.

I have written a handful of earthquake articles, but never one with this many elements to cover, so I do understand that the scope of this event does not lend itself to an easy or straightforward path towards becoming a good article. I would say that this one would be very difficult to do right (even with all of the best (non-free) sources). It still needs someone to come in and make it clear and concise. With this complexity, the reader needs a story where all the different elements are tied together. Dawnseeker2000 01:32, 9 August 2017 (UTC)