User:Mrmatiko/Improvement

At the moment I don't have the time (or probably the skill) to get any articles up to Featured Article status. However my current goal is to try and get a few articles up to Good Article status this year.

Useful things
Good article criteria What the Good article criteria are not Reviewing good articles

Farnham
There is quite a bit to do.

Easy stuff

 * Check all references
 * Replace broken ones
 * Expand bare links with a citation template
 * Ensure that there are some offline references
 * Ensure that sources are reliable
 * Check images
 * Check suitability of current images
 * Check captions of current images
 * Find relevant images from commons
 * Check the licensing status of all images

Intermediate stuff

 * Check neutrality
 * Remove POV
 * Formalise tone
 * Remove peacock words
 * Check original research
 * Remove any unsourceable OR
 * Reword sourceable OR
 * Ensure all potentially controversial statements are well sourced
 * Ensure POV sources are replaced or remove the problem text
 * Check copyright status of blocks of text
 * Google every block of text
 * Check large blocks against nearby sources
 * Any text in public domain should be marked as such
 * Manual of style
 * Lead section
 * Layout
 * Words to watch
 * List incorporation

Hard stuff

 * Prose
 * Clear and concise
 * Encyclopedic tone
 * Addresses main aspects of the topic
 * Remove unnecessary detail -> WP:Summary style