Talk:Russia/GA2

GA Reassessment
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Reviewer: Jezhotwells (talk) 21:26, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

I shall be reviewing this article against the Good Article criteria, following this GAR request

Disambiguations: 1 found and fixed. Jezhotwells (talk) 21:38, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Linkrot: 2 found and fixed. Jezhotwells (talk) 21:38, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Checking against GA criteria

 * GA review (see here for criteria)


 * 1) It is reasonably well written.
 * a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
 * The prose doesn't fully meet the "reasonably well written criteria:
 * Phrases such as One of the first modern human bones of 35,000 years old were found in Russia,  are ungrammatical.
 * ... the population loss caused by plagues wasn't so severe as in the Western Europe... Wasn't?
 * Assisted by the Russian Orthodox Church and Saint Sergius of Radonezh's spiritual revival, under the leadership of Prince Dmitri Donskoy of Moscow, the united army of Russian principalities inflicted a milestone defeat on the Mongol-Tatars in the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380. Clumsy and over-long.
 * I would suggest a thorough copy-edit aiming for good plain English.
 * The size is an obvious issue, please consider splitting off material into sub articles. I note that some attempts are still ongoing to address this.
 * Suggest dramatically reducing the Culture section, as this should be well covered in the sub article.
 * 1) It is factually accurate and verifiable.
 * a (references): b (citations to reliable sources):  c (OR):
 * There are still many un-cited statements, statistics, etc. which have been tagged. Although specifically noted on the talk page these have not been fully addressed. This alone is cause for immediate de-listing.
 * Sources appear to be reliable.
 * 1) It is broad in its coverage.
 * a (major aspects): b (focused):
 * As noted above too much detail in the culture section.
 * 1) It follows the neutral point of view policy.
 * Fair representation without bias:
 * No immediately obvious bias.
 * 1) It is stable.
 * No edit wars, etc.:
 * No evidence of edit warring, some dispute about what should and shouldn't be included.
 * 1) It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
 * a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
 * Rather too may images, in my opinion. Images should be used to illustrate the text rather then as decoration.
 * 1) Overall:
 * Pass/Fail:
 * There is a lot to do here to bring this up to standard so I am going to de-list now. When the problems are fixed, please re-nominate at WP:GAN. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:07, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
 * There is a lot to do here to bring this up to standard so I am going to de-list now. When the problems are fixed, please re-nominate at WP:GAN. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:07, 10 October 2010 (UTC)