Talk:British Raj/GA2

GA Review

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Reviewer: Lemurbaby (talk · contribs) 23:50, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is it reasonably well written?
A. Prose quality:

B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists:
Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
A. References to sources:

B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:

C. No original research:
Is it broad in its coverage?
A. Major aspects:

B. Focused:
Is it neutral?
Fair representation without bias:
Is it stable?
No edit wars, etc:
Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:

B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
Overall:
Pass or Fail:

Comments

I will be reviewing this article in the coming week. - Lemurbaby (talk) 23:50, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Lemurbaby: thank you, any updates? ☠ Jaguar ☠ 15:19, 14 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry this is taking so long. I promise to get it done this week. - Lemurbaby (talk) 16:22, 14 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine, just wanted to check in! No rush. ☠ Jaguar ☠ 14:12, 15 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for working to move this article toward GA. It's a very important article and will hopefully reach FA before long. That said, it's going to need significant work before it can pass GA. I'll list the key points to work on below, and can give you until October 1 to get them done before revisiting the changes (I'll be away for five weeks after that). Alternatively, we can simply withdraw the GA nomination at this point, and then once the changes are done you can renominate and ping me, and I'll happily review it again so you won't have to wait for months before it gets a second review. - Lemurbaby (talk) 09:49, 20 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Manual of Style, formatting and references

Please add US public domain tags to all photos
The Notes section needs to be thoroughly edited. Right now it contains a mix of full citations, shortened citations, and explanatory notes. I would recommend using Notes for explanatory notes, References for shortened book citations and full journal/website/other citations, and Bibliography for full book citations. Alternatively, you could combine the content of the proposed notes and references sections under the Notes section and have the full book citations under the References section.
The Harvard SFN format is inconsistently used. Many references are not put in a template, which contributes to the inconsistencies in style and formatting of references.
There are also many instances where there is no linkage between the shortened footnote and the full reference.
Centering the photographs at the top of each section creates white space that breaks up the text and negatively affects readability. I'd recommend shifting the images to the left or right and splitting them so no more than three (preferably two) are set side by side at a time.
The list of viceroys should be moved to its own article
Per MOS, incomplete sentences should not end in periods. Please fix in image captions, the list of viceroys and other tables as needed.

Content and organization

The lead needs to be expanded. For an article of this size it should be four paragraphs and needs to summarize all the key points of the article.
This article omits several key components that would normally be included in an article on a former country, or has them mixed into other sections in an inconsistent way. Specifically it should at minimum include separate sections on Geography, History, and Political Subdivisions of that state. I would also expect to see a section describing its Economy (including foreign and domestic trade, state of industry/agriculture/service sectors and level of economic development), Governance (including overall structure and Foreign Relations, Security), Public Services (education, health, justice system etc) and Society (castes, religions, gender/age relations, predominant/influential philosophies, inequality etc). More details on Former Countries articles are available here. You could make good progress toward working these pieces into the article simply by shifting around existing content.
There are lots of details here that could potentially be moved to History of the British Raj and only paraphrased in this article, in order to leave room to adequately develop some of the areas in the point above.

I'll stop here. Please let me know how you'd like to proceed. If you complete the points above, I'll pick up with a second round of reviewing to go deeper into content and organization. - Lemurbaby (talk) 09:49, 20 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Lemurbaby: Thank you for you comments! I'd like to proceed with addressing them as I have some free time tomorrow. I think some of it should be easy to address whereas some others would require more time, but I reckon I could get this done within a week. ☠ Jaguar ☠ 19:19, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]