Talk:Malaysia/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Nikkimaria (talk) 13:29, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Hello! I will be reviewing this article for potential GA status. My review should be posted shortly. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 13:29, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I don't feel this article is ready for GA status. I encourage you to continue working to improve the article, incorporating the suggestions below. Nikkimaria (talk) 18:27, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Writing and formatting

 * Needs a general copy-edit for grammar and clarity
 * Use a consistent date formatting - probably "day month year"
 * First paragraph of Etymology is very repetitive
 * Avoid repetition and contradiction between and within sections
 * Don't link the same terms multiple times, particularly not in close proximity
 * Spell out "WWII". What happened in Malaysia during WWII?
 * needs to be dealt with
 * Is secondary education compulsory?
 * Provide conversions of metric figures

Accuracy and verifiability

 * See here for a list of problematic external links
 * Footnotes should appear after punctuation consistently
 * Citations needed for:
 * statistics in infobox
 * However, the date was delayed until September 16, 1963, due to opposition from the Indonesian government led by Sukarno and attempts by the Sarawak United People's Party to delay the formation of Malaysia.
 * For the name Malaisia, Dumont d'Urville had in mind a region including present day Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
 * the Chief Minister is required to be a Malay-Muslim, although this rule is subject to the rulers' discretion
 * whilst some of the maritime boundaries have been the subject of ongoing contention
 * In 2008, GDP per capita (PPP) of Malaysia stands at US$14,215, ranking it 48th in the world, and 3rd in Southeast Asia (after Singapore and Brunei)
 * During the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis the ringgit was subject to speculative short-selling—falling from MYR 2.50 per USD to a low of MYR 4.80—and capital flowed out of the country. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's composite index dropped from 1,300 points to around 400 points within a few weeks. The central bank imposed capital controls and pegged the Malaysian ringgit to the US dollar, while the government refused economic aid packages from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank
 * It is one of the region's leading education and healthcare providers
 * Popular within the cities is Light Rail Transit
 * Tourism Malaysia aims to market Malaysia as a premier destination of excellence in the region
 * The government continues to try and promote this sector and its competitiveness, actively marketing the defence industry
 * In an effort to create a self-reliant defensive ability and support national development Malaysia privatized some of its military facilities in the 1970s
 * There also exist aboriginal groups in much smaller numbers on the peninsula, where they are collectively known as Orang Asli
 * The population distribution is highly uneven, with some 20 million residents concentrated on the Malay Peninsula, while East Malaysia has about 7 million people. Due to the rise in labour intensive industries, Malaysia has 10% to 20% foreign workers, the exact figure being uncertain due in part to the large number of illegal workers. There are a million legal foreign workers and perhaps another million unauthorised foreigners. The state of Sabah alone had nearly 25% of its 2.7 million population listed as illegal foreign workers in the last census.
 * Largest cities of Malaysia table
 * A variant of the Malay language that is spoken in Brunei is also commonly spoken in both states.
 * Before progressing to the secondary level of education, pupils in Year 6 are required to sit for the Primary School Achievement Test
 * Since the Islamisation movement of the 1980s and 90s, these aspects are often neglected or banned altogether. Because any Malay-speaking Muslim is entitled to bumiputra privileges, many non-Malay Muslims have adopted the Malay language, customs and attire in the last few decades
 * A Tamil Muslim community of 200,000 also thrives as an independent subcultural group. A small number of Malaysians have caucasian ancestry, and speak a variety of creole languages.


 * Don't use bare URLs in references
 * All web sources should have at minimum a URL, title, publisher and retrieval date
 * Use a consistent formatting for references
 * All book sources should have at minimum author (where available), title, publication date, publisher, and page numbers
 * Ref 15: which volume?
 * Encyclopedia of the Nations is not a reliable source
 * What makes this a reliable source? This? This?
 * This is not a reliable source.
 * What makes this a reliable source?
 * This is not a reliable source
 * Use the original source for this
 * About.com is not a reliable source
 * This is not a reliable source, and neither is this or this
 * This site is promotional, as is this one
 * This is not a reliable source
 * This is a Wikipedia mirror
 * This is a commercial site
 * Cite the original source for this
 * This is not a reliable source
 * What makes this or this or this or this a reliable source?
 * This is not a reliable source

Broad

 * Any information on Malaysian media - newspapers, radio, TV, etc?
 * Culture section should be broader, and incorporate information on Malaysian cuisine, dance, literature, etc
 * As it stands, there is some overlap between Culture and Demographics
 * Perhaps add a short subsection on rankings? New Zealand does this well
 * Consider condensing and merging Tourism into the main Economy section
 * Transportation, Energy and Healthcare should be subsections of an "Infrastructure" section, not of Economy. Education should be its own section, as likely should Science
 * Holidays and festivals could be condensed

Neutrality

 * Be sure to maintain an encyclopedic tone at all times
 * Avoid POV, especially when not supported by a source. For example, "the emasculation of the Malay rulers" is a highly POV phrase
 * Avoid sensationalism and dramatization

Stability

 * I see fairly frequent reversions in the article history, but no massive edit-wars

Images

 * Images should be as relevant as possible to the text they accompany
 * Avoid stacking images
 * Image captions should meet requirements for prose quality, verifiability, and neutrality
 * Coat of arms is missing fair-use rationale
 * Japanese troop image is lacking author information, and source link is dead
 * Commonwealth Games logo is missing fair-use rationale for this article