Talk:Conservative People's Party of Estonia/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Sunshineisles2 (talk · contribs) 06:31, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Infobox

 * Each of the descriptors in the "ideology" column should have a reference attached to them. If you can't find one for a particular ideology, it is best to remove it from the column until a citation is located.

Lead

 * Current chairman of the party is Mart Helme, — That is a very abrupt sentence start.
 * Its identitarian youth — How does the author know it is identitarian? CN.
 * responsible for the frequent nationalist torchlight marches in Estonia. — Two things here. One, there should be a source, such as a news article documenting one of these torch marches. Two, this might not be the best place to introduce that information. On English Wikipedia, it's safe to assume that many readers won't be familiar with the torchlight marches, and therefore this isn't a useful point of reference.
 * suggest other ways of looking at the left–right axis — "Other ways" is very vague.
 * The party was founded in March 2012 when the agrarian centrist party People's Union of Estonia and the nationalist pressure group Estonian Patriotic Movement merged. — In the "history" section of the article, there is a reference for this claim. It should appear earlier on, otherwise it feels like an unsourced assumption.
 * it had around 7600 members, being the fourth largest — "being the fourth largest" is awkward in this context.
 * its main struggle — This non-neutral text.
 * supporting young Estonian families, reducing emigration of Estonians abroad, fighting immigration from outside of the EU — This is copied verbatim from the source and should be rephrased.
 * It is also eurosceptic and wishes to implement Swiss-style direct democracy. — Citation needed.

Background

 * Modern Estonian nationalism dates back to the Singing Revolution that led to the end of Soviet occupation in Estonia — Citation needed.
 * as well as the Central Union of Estonian Nationalists that was active in the 1990s. — Citation needed.

History

 * In 2010, the People's Union of Estonia started to look for a possible merging partner. — Why? Further context necessary.
 * Talks with the Social Democratic Party were concluded and a special congress was convened to approve the merger agreement — Further context, or at least a citation, is useful.
 * social democrats. — The party is a proper noun – "joined the Social Democrats" or some variant thereof would be more appropriate for this usage.
 * became an extra-parliamentary party. — Does this just mean that the party was not in parliament? If so, only the first half of the sentence is needed.
 * After the election, Margo Miljand, the leader of the People's Union met with Mart Helme who had run as an independent candidate. — This sentence is clunky. It should be split up.
 * At the assembly in Põltsamaa, where the party was founded, EKRE made its first political statement — Including the entire text of the statement seems a bit unnecessary. If you feel it is needed, it should be a block quote.
 * Madison is now the vice chairman of the European Union Affairs Committee of the parliament — It would be helpful to explain how Madison went from getting the party excluded from coalition talks for Nazi sympathizing to becoming the Assembly's Vice Chair of the EU Committee.

Blue Awakening

 * a new national awakening of the Estonians — This is non-neutral text.
 * an eternal Estonian ethno-state. — See above.
 * The movement is disciplined — What is meant by "disciplined"?

Ideology

 * The party's platform generally reflects Estonian national conservatism in the Estonian political system. — This sentence isn't needed, and is more than reiterated, with citations, immediately afterward.
 * that the new political rhetoric is unfamiliar as yet — This wording does not make sense.
 * The party calls for implementation of direct democracy, — Citation needed.

Social policies

 * The party strongly opposes the widespread closure of schools in countryside — Citation needed.
 * health care must create preconditions for the preservation of the Estonian nation — What does this mean? Phrasing unclear.
 * demography is one of the most crucial aspects in the survival of Estonia. — A more specific word, like ethnicity or heritage, would be far preferable in this context.
 * Estonia is in a demographic crisis — non-neutral text.
 * especially in the light of the EU Commission plans to distribute the immigrants — Very clunky phrasing.
 *  if the liberal government allows immigration to alter the ethnic makeup of Estonia, it is scandalous and undemocratic — non-neutral text.
 *  the party insists on the parliament — Very clunky phrasing.
 * EKRE also claimed — Should be phrased in present or passive tense ("EKRE has claimed" or "EKRE claims").
 * The party promises in its platform to put the law on a referendum. — Also could be re-worded ("The party proposes a referendum...").
 * The party program includes right of the citizens to initiative — Also could be re-worded. ("The party program includes support of the right of citizens to create initiatives").
 *  EKRE supports presidential elections by the public — Try "public presidential elections".
 * The party wants to abolish D'Hondt method from the parliamentary elections — Explain what system is proposed to replace it.

Economic policies

 * The party program states that the development of the market must serve the national interest. — Specification needed. This is broad, vague terminology which obscures more than it educates.

Environment

 * the untouched natural beauty of Estonia — Non-neutral text.
 * Therefore, the party supports alternative and environment-friendly sources of energy — Are there any examples you could provide?

Foreign and defense policies

 * Estonia's independence and sovereignty. — From a purely legal standpoint, Estonia is an independent, sovereign state. When they call for this, what do they mean? Specification needed.
 * Green is territory that EKRE claims is illegally occupied by Russia — Is not a helpful caption. All of Russia, as depicted in the picture, is also in green.
 * it believes that the union has to overgo a drastic change. — It would help to describe some of the changes that are proposed by the party, beyond the ethnopluralistic alliance described. Also, "overgo" is not a word".
 * strongly limit the amount of bureucracy in the EU — Bureaucracy is misspelled, and furthermore there is no explanation of what bureaucratic errors the party wishes to eliminate.
 * "just as democratic country as Russia" — This quote is horribly phrased and should not be in the article. Instead, a summary would suffice.
 * The EKRE concept of the national defence policy — An alternate phrasing, like "the EKRE's proposed national defence policy", would read better.
 * based on the self-reliant national defence. — This sentence, when put together with the previous note, essentially reads "the EKRE's national defence policy is based on national defence". This should be reworded to highlight what "self-reliance" means in this context.
 * existence of initial defense — "Defense" is spelled differently than it was before. Additionally, there is no explanation of what "initial [defence]" means.
 * his alt-right supporters — There should be a citation from a reliable source which establishes Trump and his supporters as "alt-right".
 * Trump is right to point out that needs to make a financial contribution — I have no idea what is trying to be said here.

GA review (see here for criteria)

 * 1) It is reasonably well written.
 * a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
 * 1) It is factually accurate and verifiable.
 * a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources):  c (OR):  d (copyvio and plagiarism):
 * 1) It is broad in its coverage.
 * a (major aspects): b (focused):
 * 1) It follows the neutral point of view policy.
 * Fair representation without bias:
 * 1) It is stable.
 * No edit wars, etc.:
 * 1) It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
 * a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
 * 1) Overall:
 * Pass/Fail:

Final thoughts
This article should be extensively revised. While there are only a few central problems – original research, unoriginal text, dead URLs, non-neutral text – this is a fairly long article and to replace it to satisfaction will, to be honest, likely take longer than the seven days suggested by GA criteria. --Sunshineisles2 (talk) 19:04, 9 August 2016 (UTC)