Talk:Cognitive dissonance/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Looie496 (talk) 23:49, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

On an initial reading, it isn't clear to me that this article is within range of GA, but it is good enough to at least make a review worthwhile. There is a problem right at the start, though: I find that the article fails to answer my most basic question, which is, who invented this term, and when, and where, and why? Did others use the term in the same way as the inventor, or has the meaning changed over time? Did the concept immediately draw attention, or did it take time to catch on? How extensive is the literature on this concept? Some of these questions are addressed peripherally in the article, but I feel that these basic issues of definition need to be addressed right at the start, before the Examples section. I would like to see whether we can deal with this problem before continuing with the rest of the review. This applies especially because the GA nomination seems to have been made without any talk page discussion, by an editor who has never edited the article or its talk page. Looie496 (talk) 23:49, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

I am pretty sure that it was Leon Festinger who created the term.ACEOREVIVED (talk) 19:32, 27 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I am going to fail the GA nomination at this point due to the lack of response from the nominator or other major contributors. Looie496 (talk) 21:11, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Sorry about the late response. My bad. Anyway I realized there wasn't anything about the history of the term, so I'm currently trying to fix that. Also, I didn't realize one had to edit the article or have a talk page discussion before GA nominating. From what I gathered, it seemed like anyone who thought they found a GA-worthy article could nominate it. AddThreeAndFive (talk) (contribs) 04:04, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
 * One doesn't have to, but my experience has been that editors who have never contributed to an article are rarely in a position to handle problems that are pointed out in a GA review. In any case this review is officially closed -- the article can be renominated at any time, but perhaps it would be better to first open a discussion on the talk page of whether it is ready.  Regards, Looie496 (talk) 04:30, 31 July 2011 (UTC)