Talk:Exploding whale/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Ribbet32 (talk · contribs) 22:49, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

This article is an old favourite of mine, a classic of the great User:Ta bu shi da yu, hence a former WP:FA. Unfortunately, I feel it necessary to make this a Quickfail for two reasons:

1.  Quickfail #3: "It has, or needs, cleanup banners that are unquestionably still valid". In addition to a "when?" tag unresolved since January 2011, there is no indication any serious attempt has been made to resolve the issues that led to its de-featuring in Featured article review/Exploding whale/archive3: "The problem is that the article doesn't cite any reliable sources that tie together all these disparate events under the rubric of 'Exploding whales'. " It is not intuitively obvious how "Tainan City" and "Others" relate to the famous Dave Barry story, raising OR concerns for those sections. Before the article is nominated for GA again, at least some effort should be made to address the last featured article review.

2. Per Good article nominations/Instructions, "it is highly preferable that they [the nominator] have contributed significantly and are familiar with the subject". The nominator in this case, User:FriyMan, has not contributed significantly- it is good he attempted to add to the footnotes, but what is xpatmatt, and is it a WP:RS? Neither XPATMATT or its author, Matt Gibson, appear to have articles. Ribbet32 (talk) 22:49, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

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