Talk:Barack Obama 2008 presidential primary campaign/GA1

Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008 GA Review
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I am nominating "Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008" because the article has significantly improved since March 2008, with 332 links, 181,161 bytes, stable article and the article has been expanded greatly. Secret Saturdays (talk) 03:34, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

PS. Ihave permission from johnpseudo.

I am taking a break from reviewing Good Article Nominations, but a few things you could work on while waiting for a review are:


 * 1) Address the "citation needed" tag in the "Pre-announcement" section.
 * 2) Give a reference for the "still fired up and ready to go" quotation in the "New Hampshire" section.
 * 3) Source the final paragraph in the "New Hampshire" section (especially any quotations and statistics).
 * 4) Source the second paragraph in the "Florida and Michigan" section.
 * 5) Give a reference for the quotation starting with "We need sensible gun laws" in the "Pennsylvania" section.
 * 6) Split up the "Endorsements" section so that it isn't just one long paragraph.
 * 7) Format the references with all the necessary information. Each should have at least a title, publisher, url, and accessdate. An author and date should be given if possible.
 * 8) Type the article's name (Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008) into the box at the top of this page: ~dispenser/view/Checklinks. Any dead links (if any) need to be replaced.

If these are fixed now, the review will go much quicker once someone agrees to take a look at it. GaryColemanFan (talk) 05:15, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

...and, check the article dablinks here, there's a few that need fixing. Sasata (talk) 05:22, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

I have fixed the issues now. Secret Saturdays (talk) 20:08, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
 * There are still quite a few dead links. See http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webchecklinks.py?page=Barack_Obama_presidential_primary_campaign%2C_2008. All of the red links need to be fixed, and the rest of the colored links need to be checked. For the red links, the easiest fix is to type the url into http://www.archive.org/web/web.php and to add the url of an archived version of the page. There is also still a concern about the reference formatting. Some are still just bare urls with no other information, which is not sufficient for a Good Article. In addition, three links to disambiguation pages need to be fixed: frontrunner, Ben Rhodes, and Independence Park. GaryColemanFan (talk) 16:15, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Upon further inspection, the frontrunner link should stay as is, since the only page that discusses the term in the proper context is the disambiguation page. GaryColemanFan (talk) 21:50, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Much easier way: Open page in Checklinks. Hide all non red entries. Click "(info)". A window will pop open with Wayback Machine results, the one in bold is the closest to the access date.  If it is within something like two week it will automatically select that revision, otherwise you'll need to click "Use" (the corner will turn green).  When done click "Save changes", a window will pop open with the diff, click "Save page".  — Dispenser 21:37, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi. Since the above comments were not meant to start an official review, I will review the GA nomination. On a very cursory first pass, there are still a number of dead links that need to be addressed. I will review the full article carefully and comment here over the next few days. Nasty Housecat (talk) 01:53, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Nasty Housecat (talk) 23:51, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

No motion on the review in the last seven days. Failing for now. Always free to nominate later after issues are addressed. Nasty Housecat (talk) 14:59, 17 February 2010 (UTC)