Talk:Time to Get Tough/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 16:56, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:56, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

-- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:22, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
 * The "Further reading" section uses Harvard anchors, but the citations are not set up to point to them; if these are really further reading, and not used as citations, use "ref=none" to disable the Harvard anchors.
 * done Argento Surfer (talk) 21:58, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
 * He criticizes the success rate of President Barack Obama: "success rate" is vague; can we be more specific?
 * I couldn't find anything on this in the citation, so I just took it out. Argento Surfer (talk) 21:58, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
 * The summary section needs copyediting for repetitive sentence structure and flow. "He asserts... He provides... Trump writes... He characterizes... The author recalls", just from one paragraph.
 * I re-wrote most of this section. Let me know if anything still needs changing. Argento Surfer (talk) 19:15, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Trump subdivides the book into sections on Social programs in the United States, Health care in the United States, and Taxation in the United States: these topics are linked to suitable articles, but I don't think we need "in the United States" in the link text; it's obvious from context.
 * done Argento Surfer (talk) 21:58, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
 * No comma is needed in indirect quotations such as "Trump laments, the Affordable Care Act will..." or "characterizing it as, causing economic harm..."
 * I removed the ones specifically named and one other. I'll look for others when I c/e for repetition.
 * observing the Russian leader wishes to beat neighboring countries in the region: what does "beat" mean here? Economically outdo?
 * Hard to say - Trump himself was pretty vague. He said "Putin has also announced his grand vision: the creation of a ‘Eurasian Union’ made up of former Soviet nations that can dominate the region." Would a direct quote here be best? Argento Surfer (talk) 21:58, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Could do; or use "dominate", which I don't think would require quotes; it's the right word, even if it's in the original. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 02:12, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I've rewritten the sentence to replace beat with dominate and avoid repeating the word later. Argento Surfer (talk) 16:47, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 * He writes of difficult individuals he has negotiated with in the private sector, calling them difficult to deal with and stubborn: wordy.
 * done Argento Surfer (talk) 21:58, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Time to Get Tough functioned as a prelude during Trump's decision process: it's not clear what this means. If it just means it was published while Trump was still deciding, then say that.
 * I've rewritten this paragraph for clarity. Argento Surfer (talk) 16:47, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 * to sync more tightly: "sync" is a little too colloquial for the encyclopedic voice.
 * This was rephrased. Argento Surfer (talk) 16:47, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't think we need all the details of exactly where it ranked in the bestseller lists; can't we just give its peak position on the most important list it was on, and if necessary the debut position too? The rest seems like trivia.
 * I shuffled this section around and pruned a bit. I think it flows better now. Argento Surfer (talk) 16:47, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 * the genre of the work was placed within marketing himself and conservative ideology: wordy, and clumsy phrasing; took me a second to realize that "himself" was Trump.
 * reworded. Argento Surfer (talk) 16:47, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Lozada wrote of the book's reissue with repackaging, i.e., minimal changes to content and significant changes to its exterior, that was a fitting "metaphor in there somewhere for the campaign of a real-estate developer.": this isn't grammatical.
 * rephrased. Argento Surfer (talk) 16:47, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 * , are you planning to work on this? If not I'll fail the article in another week. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 14:14, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I've addressed the points raised. Please let me know if more work is needed. Argento Surfer (talk) 16:47, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Much improved. Promoting. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:50, 10 March 2018 (UTC)