Talk:History of the Royal Australian Navy/GA1

GA Reassessment
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This article is being reviewed as part of the WikiProject Good Articles. We're doing Sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria. This article was awarded GA-status back in 2006, so I will be assessing the article to ensure that it is still compliant.Pyrotec (talk) 14:38, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Initial comments

 * This article is quite comprehensive in respect of its scope and is fairly well referenced; however there are many unreferenced paragraphs and some references are broken or are inadequately referenced. I will add some details below. Pyrotec (talk) 21:22, 3 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Pre-Federation navies -
 * Reference 2 is inadequately specified.


 * Formation -
 * The final two paragraphs, half the section, are unreferenced.


 * World War I -
 * Ref 9 appears to be a book. The relevant page number or pages numbers should be citated.
 * Ref 10 is a broken web link.
 * Ref 11 is a broken web link.


 * The 1918–19 influenza pandemic -
 * The second paragraph has an undated {citation needed} flag - I'm not certain how long it has been there.
 * Ref 17 leads to a web-based index page. The link as currently given does not provide any means of verification.


 * South Pacific aid mission -
 * In the first paragraph, Ref 18 confirms an apology. Only this one sentence is referenced. The rest of the paragraph is not WP:verifiable.
 * It is not clear what ref 19 is.

....to be continued. Pyrotec (talk) 21:39, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

There are various other sections with {citation} need flags, all of them undated. Pyrotec (talk) 19:21, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Overall summary
On balance, the article is reasonably well referenced, the prose is good, the article is comprehensive in scope and is well illustrated. I'm therefore going to close this review and mark the article history as GA-status: "Keep". Pyrotec (talk) 19:21, 12 November 2009 (UTC)