Talk:Lin Biao/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Retrolord (talk · contribs) 06:23, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

I'll review this.  ★ ★ RetroLord★ ★  06:23, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Ok. This article needs some serious improvement in regards to referencing. I am considering failing it outright. Please improve it.  ★ ★ RetroLord★ ★  07:56, 23 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Re: 1B - This paragraph is indented in the style of a blockquote. In the section titled "Block quotations", MOS:QUOTE states: "Format a long quote (more than about 40 words or a few hundred characters, or consisting of more than one paragraph, regardless of length) as a block quotation, which Wikimedia's software will indent from both margins. Do not enclose block quotations in quotation marks". This paragraph should not have quotation marks.


 * Re: 2A - I rewrote and sourced most of Lin Biao's article last year, expanding it to its present size. I would have nominated it for GA status at that time, but there were a few unsourced paragraphs present before my work that I thought were true, but which I could not find sources for (some of which you have noted), and so I thought the nomination would fail for being insufficiently supported by inline citations (as it probably will now). I will do another search, but I am not confident that I can find sources for these paragraphs without access to better research material than I now have available.Ferox Seneca (talk) 03:42, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your efforts. Just in case you didn't notice I have failed the GA so this may not be the best place to post this either. However, I will be very glad in the future to provide assistance should you require this to be GA reviewed again,  ★ ★ RetroLord★ ★  09:41, 25 June 2013 (UTC)