Talk:Asteroid/GA1

GA Reassessment

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I will do the GA Reassessment on this article as part of the GA Sweeps project. H1nkles (talk) 20:52, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Link 2 in the references section is dead.

I'm concerned about a lack of references throughout the article. I put a ^{[citation needed]} template in "Terminology" section but many more could be added. I also see a ^{[citation needed]} template that has been on the article since July 2008. The "Discovery" section has 6 in-line citations for over 1,200 words of text, that isn't enough, the Historical methods sub section has no in-line citations. The "Naming", "Exploration" and "In fiction" sections have no in-line citations either. Where there are citations they are sometimes minimal for the amount of information in the section and oddly placed so that it isn't clear if they are meant to cover the entire section. Case in point is the "Orbit groups and families" sub section, which has one in-line citation but it isn't clear if this link is to cover all the information in the subsection (by the way the next sub section; "Quasi-satellites and horseshoe objects" is unreferenced). Another example is "Manual methods of the 1900s and modern reporting" where ref [29] is at the end of the first paragraph. Is this meant to cover the entire sub section?

The lead needs to be expanded. Per WP:LEAD the lead is to be a summary of the entire article, bringing up all the points in the article. The lead for an article of this length should be a solid three paragraphs.

The images are excellent, the writing is good, there are (IMO) to many See Also and External links but I wouldn't ding the article for that. The primary issues are the references and lead. I will hold the article for a week pending fixes. If anyone has questions please contact me at my talk page. H1nkles (talk) 22:08, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

At this point the article has been on hold for a week with no substantive work done. As such I will delist the article as it does not meet the GA Criteria for MOS compliance due to an inadequate lead and a lack of references. H1nkles (talk) 14:43, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]