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Lessons to learn from quick-failed good article nomination, article Glass, October 2007
Per the quick-fail criteria of the GA process, any article with cleanup or expansion banners and tags such as fact must be failed without a hold period. Please feel free to renominate the article when the necessary improvements have been made. Other major issues that would need to be dealt with include the following:


 * The prose is, for the most part, a pleasure to read. However, the article needs some work to comply fully with the Manual of Style. At present, the lead section is not a concise overview of the entire article. It only provides a basic definition of what glass is and how it's made. Expanding into a second paragraph which succinctly summarizes the rest of the article is necessary. Another issue is the use of blockquote formatting for quotations of less than four lines. This is improper per the MoS, and needs to be corrected. The sections Renaissance glassmaking, Industrial revolution glassmaking and Market structure also need serious expansion or merging in to larger sections.


 * Another area lacking is inline citations to references. Presently, every section in the article has large portions of text (i.e entire paragraphs and even subsections) that contain no inline citations whatsoever. The minimum for GA status would be a single ref at the end of the paragraph and for quotes. More, such as for potentially controversial statements, would be desirable. Remember that cites should always come after punctuation, not within it. This is especially true when citing quotations (such as in the bulleted list within Behaviour of antique glass).

Thank you for your work so far. If you feel this decision was in error, you are welcome to ask for a reassessment. Van Tucky  Talk 21:07, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Articles that should be created

 * Egyptian glass

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