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Timeline of Algiers history
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because I would like the article to be as neutral as possible.

Thanks, M2545 (talk) 11:41, 28 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Comments by Dana Boomer

In general, articles that have cleanup banners are not supposed to be nominated at WP:PR. This article has a number of them:


 * POV tag at top of article
 * Expand tags in Prior to 16th century, 20th century and 21st century sections
 * Worldwide view tag in Further reading section

In addition to these tags, there are a number of other issues with the article that I can see on a quick glance:


 * The lead needs to be expanded to provide a summary of the article.
 * There is quite a bit of referencing that needs to be done. For example, the whole Prior to 16th century section is unreferenced.
 * Further expansion, explanation and/or linking is needed in quite a few spots. For example, what does "Medersa opens" mean? What is Medersa? What is the relevance of "Flood"? Floods happen all the time - what was special about this one? What is special about the three population dates you've chosen?
 * I'm not really seeing any major manifestations of POV, but I could be missing something. In expanding the article, make sure that you're not inadvertently creating a POV by only including events that were important to any individual group of people.

You may want to check out some of the "Timeline of..." articles that are listed as featured lists to get an idea of what the lead, content, referencing and other standards are for the really good "Timeline of..." articles. For a couple of examples, you could check out Timeline of prehistoric Scotland, Timeline of chemistry or Timeline of the far future, although there are a bunch of others listed on that page.

Once the tags, referencing and lead expansion are dealt with, I think this list will be in much better shape. Are you planning to take the article through a featured list candidacy? Please let me know if you have any questions, Dana boomer (talk) 21:02, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

I would add that, for example, building of mosques and hospitals jars a bit in the middle of invasions, bombardments, floods and so on. You should seriously consider yanking out these events in a SEPARATE time-line called something like "History of landmarks, monuments and civic development of Algiers", a time-line you can affix at the end. Stuff like when important mosques are built do belong in the general historical picture of the city, but right now, the time line feels rather jumbled together.Arildnordby (talk) 16:10, 27 February 2013 (UTC)