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Sylhet

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This peer review discussion has been closed. Requested peer view to make it a good article.

Thanks, Bangali71 (talk) 15:18, 28 May 2009 (UTC)


 * There is almost nothing on the mineral resources. In an article on the most mineral rich area in Bangladesh that's kind of odd. The Geography section is pretty poor on about haors. This too is pretty odd for a region half covered in haors. The History section is about Sylhet District, but the Civic Administration section is about Sylhet Town. Now, that's really confusing. On top of that, the article needs a thorough copy-edit. This much could be seen at a first glance. But, I believe all of them are serious issues. Aditya (talk • contribs) 17:24, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your message good criticisms made but i do require some help to develop in particular economic mineral rich informations i cannot find many references, please attract more users to this discussion thank Bangali71 (talk) 11:07, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I am a bit drowned in real life work right now. But, things should get better pretty soon. I promise to lend a hand as much as I can. Unfortunately, The Green Editor and AA, two great editors with an interest in Sylhet, have retired or gone inactive. Let's see what can be cooked up. Aditya (talk • contribs) 04:07, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Ruhrfisch comments: I would contact Aditya as these seem like very good suggestions (and I am not familiar with this city). While this looks like a pretty good start, there are numerous mostly minor things that need to be addressed before it is GA, so here are some suggestions for improvement.
 * Per the WP:MOS provide English units as well as metric - convert is useful here.
 * Article needs more references in a few places, for example The rapid growth and expansion of Sylhet occurred during the colonial period. Sylhet Municipality was established in 1878. A devastating earthquake demolished almost the entire town on 12 June 1897 following which a modern and European model new town was built on the wreckage. Many new roads were constructed in the late 1890s and Sylhet became really connected to the other parts of the country with the establishment of an extension line of Assam-Bengal Railway in 1912-15. From the very beginning of the 20th century, the importance of Sylhet increased with the establishment of the tea industry. In the 1950s and 1960s, rapid urbanisation took place in the town, fostered by the expatriate Sylhetis and the process is still ongoing. needs a ref or two. My rule of thumb is that every quote, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref.
 * Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. cite web and other cite templates may be helpful. See WP:CITE and WP:V
 * Per WP:MOS, images should be set to thumb width to allow reader preferences to take over. For portrait format images, "upright" can be used to make the image narrower.
 * Watch organization - in History the narrative flow jumps around in time (we go from 1781 to the Second World War to the early colonial era (Assam), then we have information on Twin Cities, but there is another section on that at the end of the article. There is also very little on history post 1947 and especially as part of Bangladesh.
 * A model article is useful for ideas and examples to follow - there are several FAs on cities at Featured_articles and I note that Dhaka and Delhi are both FAs and may be useful models. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 20:44, 11 June 2009 (UTC)



Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 20:44, 11 June 2009 (UTC)