Talk:Cultural Revolution/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 12:22, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

The article is tagged with a notice to correct the citations, and indeed there remain, several months after this was put into the GAN queue, 21 paragraphs still tagged with "citation needed". The article is accordingly not ready for GAN. The tagged citations need to be fixed before submission.

There are also some citations like 56, 57 (Wang) that are missing a title; this could be avoided by using a Harvard short form link as has been done for ref 115 (Gao). There are also refs not in canonical form, e.g. 116 says simply "Chan" with no date or anything else; this ought to be linked to Chan, Anita, 1985. Same goes for 185 Ewing and various other examples. I note also that 9, 10, 15, 18, 20 have automated short form refs to MacFarquhar and Schoenhals, while 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19 and so forth have non-automated short-form refs to the same work, which is frankly not acceptable in a GA. There are many other instances. There are thus multiple styles of short-form referencing in the article; while you might want some long and some short refs, it's less easy to justify multiple short ref styles in one article.

This looks to be a fine article but it needs work before resubmission. I'm therefore quick-failing it now. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:22, 5 April 2019 (UTC)