Wikipedia:Peer review/Bengali language/archive1

Bengali language
I'm an occaisional contributor but not a main editor. The article looks almost ready to be a FAC. Comments on how to improve the overall quality of the article would be appreciated, specifically comments on the layout, language, and placement of images. Ttownfeen 02:06, August 22, 2005 (UTC)


 * How does it compare vis-a-vis Tamil? I'm not really into the finer aspects of language, so can't really comment on the article contents. But the Table of contents is ugly, the dialects subheading make it expand a great deal. Also a single subheading under a heading is not recommended. Please merge with the parent heading. Some more pictures and some sound samples are needed.  =Nichalp   «Talk»=  08:00, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, there are a number of very high quality language FA's, so try looking at those and see what you can emulate. There is great material here, but some suggestions: 1) The article refers to it as the 4th or 5th most popular language, but the list that it links to has it as 7th or 8th if I remember right. Sounds like a POV problem. 2) The research and use of referencing seems insufficient. There are only five references (I didn't check their quality, but FA's need high quality references) and there is no apparent way to tell what facts come from what source. Inline citation of the most important and or potentially contentious points to the highest quality references available would really help. At least 20 or so would be a good guideline. 3) The prose is broken up in many very short paragraphs, which results in poor flow. Try to expand or combine each until it flows better. Most great articles can eliminate all on or two sentence paragraphs. - Taxman Talk 23:35, September 1, 2005 (UTC)


 * Hmm, here is a possible explanation of the "most spoken" thing, if you consider speakers, it is 7th or 8th, but if you consider Native speakers, then it is 4th or 5th. For example, a lot of people in the world can speak English though it is not their native tongue. I'll try to fix as per your suggestions. Thanks. --Ragib 17:43, 6 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I like it! Tony 05:15, 14 September 2005 (UTC)