Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/K. Subrahmanyam


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 * Closed as Not Promoted' - Cam (Chat) 20:35, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

K. Subrahmanyam

 * Nominator(s): Jokester99 (talk)

I am nominating this article for A-Class review because...of substantial work in updating a stub to a hopefully balanced encyclopedia-level entry, with extensive and reliable references. Article is also about a very significant player in Indian military and foreign policy history, especially with regard to his key status in Indian nuclear postures on the global stage Jokester99 (talk) 16:55, 9 May 2009 (UTC)Jokester99, May 9, 2009


 * Comment: There are several ambiguous links that need to be disambiguated: click on "disambig links" in the toolbox on the main review page to see them. — Bellhalla (talk) 18:43, 9 May 2009 (UTC)


 * ✅ Fixed all 'disambig' links. Thanks for the feedback, let me know if any more - Jokester99 (Jokester99) 10 May 2009


 * Object - single line paragraphs, cites before punctuation, incomplete references, Rediff and blogspot are not RS.  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! ) 00:55, 11 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Let me see what can be done about the first two objections. What do you mean by incomplete reference? Any instances? Blogspot was referenced only because it was a senior Indian journalist's, who reproduced a published article of his. It's been replaced. I'm afraid I would question your referring to Rediff.com as not RS. It is the leading online news source in India, been around awhile and seen as credible. Please elaborate. -Jokester99 (talk) 18:55, 11 May 2009 (UTC)Jokester99, May 11, 2009

If these issues are adequately addressed, then I should be able to then complete a full review of the prose. Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 05:49, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose for now. The following are just a few points that need to be addressed before I initiate a line by line analysis:
 * The lead requires an expansion to a good two or three paragraphs briefly summarising the contents of the article.
 * Dates in the article should be delinked.
 * Citations should be placed after puncuation without a space.
 * The citations need to be formatted correctly. I suggest you use Template:Cite web.
 * "See also" sections should only include links that are relevant to the article, but are not previously linked to in the prose.
 * Images should not be aligned to the left if they are directly under a level three heading.
 * It is preferred that one-liner paragraphs are not present in an article, and if shorter paragraphs are combined.


 * Comment. Yesterday I had prepared a really detailed review, but it got lost, so here's a briefer version of the main points.
 * It needs a copy-edit. There are many sentence fragments and awkward phrases.
 * Linking needs to be gone over. Many terms are overlinked, again and again in the same paragraph or section.
 * It has technical MOS issues, I especially noticed some problems with WP:DASH compliance.
 * All the above issues need to be fixed as well.


 * My apologies for the brevity of this, I just can't bring myself to read over the entire article again. Linking and prose were the main problems I noticed. – Joe   N  20:56, 13 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment The article at this point in time appears to be well written and may qualify for GA status if not A. I would look at sending it to GAN. Geoff Plourde (talk) 18:21, 20 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment: please check the citations for any duplicates that could be consolidated. I saw at least one (62 & 63), but there might be others. I just had a quick look.— AustralianRupert (talk) 15:29, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose I haven't done a detailed review, but no article can pass for A (or even GA) with raw URLs in the references. I have provided a guide to solving this problem on the talk page.--Jackyd101 (talk) 22:31, 25 May 2009 (UTC)


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