Talk:Geography of Saskatchewan

GA Review
The article does not meet the Good article criteria at the present time, and cannot be listed. The article suffers from poor organization, too many pictures, images, and tables, and not enough text. Although, contrary to that, the intro section is a bit too long-worded (paragraphs are too long), and doesn't exactly summarize the article. I also see numerous manual of style issues; 'see also' links are not at the top of sections, but rather scattered just about everywhere, and some sections have 4 & 5 'see also' links and very little content. There are some subsection headers that are internal wikilinks, also a MOS violation. The sources provided for some of the tables don't seem to follow any sort of pattern or consistent formatting.
 * In the process of converting sources to one consistent formatting, this was probably an accumulaton of editors  Will also standardise see also links.SriMesh |  talk  03:52, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

The 'Historical geography and politics' is only cited by a single, answers.com reference. I find it rather humorous that the text in this reference that is cited, appears to be text that was copied by answers.com from the wikipedia article on Saskatchewan, which is a circular reference and should be avoided (Wikipedia articles should not cite other wikipedia articles). There should also be more than a single source cited as well for this material, for more than one point of view.


 * ✅ - Removed the answers.com citation.

The 'additional information' section is just a bulleted list of random items, most of which actually probably belong in other areas of this article, or in the Saskatchewan article.

The 'see also' section is also getting quite long. Links to articles that already appear in article text can be removed to help reduce this a bit.

Also, I am unable to find any evidence on this talk page or elsewhere that the League of Copyeditors did anything to this article, as the nominator suggested in the nomination. Usually, when articles are copyedited by the League, they leave a tag on the talk page indicated that the copyedit was done.
 * This tagging I did not know. The article was listed at the WP page of the L of CE for quite a while, and a reply was posted to my talk page, that it was not going to be at WP L of CE

Sorry to be so blunt here, folks, but the article is a long way from GA status. Hope this points editors in the right direction. Cheers! Dr. Cash (talk) 21:10, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * GA!!?? The style and content of this article leave much to be desired. I needs SERIOUS work. I'll make a start but will need help. Silverchemist (talk) 13:18, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Anyone interested in helping?Silverchemist (talk) 02:29, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello there I'll help...I had been the one to put it up for GA many moons ago...and haven't got back to it yet. Your new lead makes revisions look promising again....SriMesh |  talk  00:41, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Odd sentence
Does anyone want to work on rewording this sentence, found in the second paragraph of the 'Historical geography' sub-section: In 1870, the Hudson Bay's Company (HBC) had combined with the North West Company in 1821, and then ceded its rights from the Canadian government. I assume the 1870 refers to the 'ceded its rights' part, but then I'm not really sure what 'ceded its rights from the Canadian government' means. Isn't it supposed to be 'ceded its rights to the Canadian government'? Alexius Horatius 06:10, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The whole article was full of odd sentences. It is slowly being rewritten and the invalid links and references being replaced.Silverchemist (talk) 13:27, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Symbols
Replaced unreferenced additional info section with a see also link to Symbols of Saskatchewan which is cited. The weather additional info is here...;Weather
 * Coldest recorded temperature: -57 °C at Prince Albert, 1 February 1893
 * Hottest recorded temperature: 45 °C at Yellow Grass and Midale, 5 July 1937
 * Average annual percentage of daylight with bright sunshine: 53.3
 * Highest number of hours, bright sunshine: 2,701 at Estevan, 1980, if there are citations, can be re-added into weather section, if desired. SriMesh |  talk  04:15, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Geology section
Put the lead paragraph of Geology of Saskatchewan into Geography of Saskatchewan as a section on geology, will try to enlarge the section with relation of geology to geography next.SriMesh | talk  04:01, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Geography of Saskatchewan
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Geography of Saskatchewan's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Atlas of Saskatchewan": From Flora of Saskatchewan:

 From Geology of Saskatchewan:

 

Reference named "AtlasSK": From Geology of Saskatchewan:  From Flora of Saskatchewan:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 02:18, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The difference is the chapter and page numbers will fix by using rp for the page numbers in this article. Thank youSriMesh |  talk  05:13, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Flat
Wow, a whole page on the geography of Saskatchewan without using the word flat.

Clearly that's an oversight. 99.240.191.54 (talk) 20:04, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

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