Wikipedia:Peer review/Ido/archive1

Ido
Here are the reasons for the nomination:
 * This article has been around for a while, edited quite a few times and seems to be NPOV enough but I would like to be certain of that.
 * Number of speakers: that's a difficult number to ascertain, and anyone who has looked at the Esperanto page will know that they have the same problem. With Ido it's actually a bit harder because there is the added difference between the speaking population vs. the number of supporters. Esperanto being a 2nd language by nature makes the majority of them curious about foreign languages and a lot of them know Ido to a certain extent but choose not to support it, being the smaller movement.
 * Curious as to whether further articles should be made for the red links on the template, or just removed. Music is almost nonexistent, but an article could be made about literature if need be.
 * If there is are sections needed in the article I would like to know. It looks complete to me but it would always be possible to add on more content. Is there enough/too much on the history, on the language itself? Should there be anything on Louis Couturat for example and how he died in 1914, or is that a bit off-topic?
 * The positive reason of course for an eventual nomination is that Ido is the 2nd-largest constructed language Wikipedia with almost 100 years of history and yet few people know much about it.
 * Lastly, are four images enough for a featured article or should there be a few more?

Mithridates 16:57, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi there!
 * For one thing, the lead is waaay too short - see WP:LEAD
 * Where are the references? I may have missed them but there doesn't appear to be many there....

Ryan Norton T 22:57, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

That's a good point. I lengthened the lead into two full-sized paragraghs and I'll see what I can find for references when I wake up fully (morning here in Korea). Is there a way to get the Ido symbol into the language template, say at the top? I would like to have both of them in full view right from the start. Mithridates 01:47, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Oh wait, I just put the symbol on the left and it seems to look pretty good. Mithridates 01:54, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Update: Some helpful person has fixed the template so that the symbol appears inside on the top. Nice. Mithridates 08:01, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Aye, I did that, but now Ido has it's own template which should be a module of the language template. If anyone is reading this that is an active part of that template editing, can you fix this? I'm really not sure how modules work. Phil.andy.graves 16:50, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Great size lead!!! Now for the references :) Ryan Norton T 08:14, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I know a few people in the community that are better at providing references so I'm going to leave it to them - work to do later if the article is to be nominated. How many is a good number?

One other thing I'm still having a problem with and what no amount of references will help with is the number of speakers. There are a number of methods to show the relative population to Esperanto, but they don't know how many speakers exist either so the best guess for Ido is just 'over a thousand supporters plus all the Esperantists who decided to learn it out of curiosity'. Mithridates 02:40, 30 September 2005 (UTC)


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