Talk:Place name changes in Turkey/GA3

GA Review
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Reviewer: Daniel Case (talk · contribs) 06:19, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

I have decided to take the task of reviewing this one, nominated nine months ago. I will be printing it out and making comments based on that. Daniel Case (talk) 06:19, 13 December 2014 (UTC) All right. I will probably be passing this later, after I do some copyediting. I will reserve my comments till that point (hopefully within the next couple of days). Daniel Case (talk) 18:52, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

✅ OK, it passes. I know it would probably have been best to review this de novo, as it were, but based on the failed FAC and the previous GA nom it looks like the only real issue was the sourcing, and that's been taken care of.

The copyedit I did mainly dealt with the issues created by more or less translating the German article whole hog and dumping it here. I must confess that the level of detail puts me in mind of that old joke in which various nationalities are asked to produce a book about elephants, and Germany contributes ''A Brief Introduction to the Fundamentals of the Science of the Elephant's Ear, Vols. 1–11'' (I am told by people active on dewiki that that's not too much of an exaggeration; also, I'm surprised there's no article about this on trwiki). But it's not too much, and the maps help a bit.

Should the goal be to develop this article further, toward an FAC, I would suggest really keeping an eye on the prose and making sure it stays friendly to the English-speaking reader. I'd also like to read more about what is happening with this during the EU accession. The intro discusses this, but does not really elaborate on it in the article body.

Also, it would be nice if we could find or create an actual image—of something like a sign—that illustrates this a bit better than the maps can.

It has been a long enough journey for this article, nine months on the GAN queue (more time, I suspect, than any other article this year). So it is fitting that it gets approved on Christmas Eve. Have a nice holiday whether you celebrate it or not! Daniel Case (talk) 20:34, 24 December 2014 (UTC)