Talk:Atlantis/GA1

GA Reassessment

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This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force in an effort to ensure all listed Good articles continue to meet the Good article criteria. The article has a lot of good qualities, but there are some issues that I believe prevent it from meeting the criteria.

Lead section: "the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415–413 BC" – this is not mentioned in the text
"Plato's account":
- The first quote is out of place; the background needs to be set up first - who is speaking etc.
- "John V. Luce assumes..." – where? Needs ref
"Reception"
- "Ancient"
  - There are a couple of one-sentence paragraphs
  - "...no primary ancient account..." – needs ref
  - "Marcellus remains unidentified." – needs ref
- "In Nazi mysticism" – does this really need a separate section?
"In or near the Mediterranean Sea" – this section needs references to the listed locations
- Google Earth story – here the reference is to a blog; there should be reliable sources for this
"Other locations" – same thing as "In or near the Mediterranean Sea"
"Notes" - the notes generally have poor formatting; many have naked URLs, in others information such as site and author is missing
General:
- There's a mix of spaced and unspaced dashes. Whatever kind of dashes you chose to use, it needs to be uniform.
- Too much of the content is referenced directly to the ancient sources, which can be considered original research. Interpretation of ancient sources should be backed up by modern scholarship, of which there is plenty available.

I will wait for seven days, if anyone has started a thorough revision of the article by then, I will extend the waiting period, so the article can remain listed as a Good article. Otherwise, it will be delisted (such a decision may be challenged through WP:GAR). If improved after it has been delisted, it may be nominated at WP:GAN. Feel free to drop a message on my talk page if you have any questions, and many thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this article thus far. Lampman (talk) 17:08, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Since no significant improvements have been made to the article over the last week, I will now delist it. Lampman (talk) 17:11, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]