Talk:Alkali metal/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: –Grondemar 13:08, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

 Working I will aim to post this review by later today / early tomorrow. –Grondemar 13:08, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Unfortunately, after review there are a few big issues that will prevent this article from achieving good article status at this time:

• There is a in the lead, and several paragraphs throughout the article are uncited. In general, there should be at least one citation per paragraph.
• Scope issue: Is hydrogen an alkali metal or not? The lead says it is not, a later table says "...hydrogen is is included for comparison", but other tables and sections of prose treat hydrogen as if it is an alkali metal. Consistency is needed throughout the article on this.
• I realize this article is summarizing various similar elements, but is there a way to convert the bulleted lists into free-flowing prose?
• Applications section: in the wikilinks "Applications" and "Uses" should not be capitalized.

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Thanks. –Grondemar 13:21, 3 March 2011 (UTC)