Talk:Genoa/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Dana boomer (talk · contribs) 01:01, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi! I'll be reviewing this article for GA status and should have my full review up shortly. Dana boomer (talk) 01:01, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to fail this article's nomination for GA status. There are significant problems, most notably with the sourcing, which prevent the article from being of GA status at this time. Some specific thoughts:


 * Citation needed banner in Middle Ages and Renaissance, plus four citation needed in-line tags in other areas.
 * Many other areas needing referencing. These include statistics such as the Climate, Demographics and Economy sections, and subjective opinion sections such as People (What is the criteria for selecting famous people? Why do almost all of the people listed have articles, until you get to the last few sentences?), and quite a few other areas.
 * Seven dead links, see here for details.
 * Many references missing vital information, such as titles, publishers and accessdates for web references and authors, publishers and page numbers for books.
 * References not in English should have a language specified.
 * Standardize to one variety of English - I see both harbor and harbour, for example, and -ization and -isation.
 * Text should not be sandwiched between images, infoboxes, tables, etc. as it is in many places throughout the article.
 * Dab links to Riviera, Deva, Subway, Palazzo Ducale, and St. Lawrence Cathedral.

The referencing is the biggest issue at the moment, as a significant portion of the article is missing references. This should be the main focus of any drive to bring this article up to GA status. I have not checked prose, image licensing or reference reliability/copyright compliance, as these are things that will most likely change significantly as the article is brought into line with GA guidelines. Please let me know if you have any questions, Dana boomer (talk) 01:16, 15 May 2012 (UTC)