Talk:Brown College at Monroe Hill

Brown College at Monroe Hill was nominated as a Social sciences and society good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (December 16, 2019). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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GA Review

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Reviewer: Kingsif (talk · contribs) 03:53, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'll get this review started Kingsif (talk) 03:53, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Style

At first read, the impression is that this is poorly structured and written.
Extraneous wikilinks throughout
Was Produced by Heritage Film Project | Color and Black and White | HD | 50 min. | 16:9 copied direct from IMDb? Using lines like that is not generally accepted prose on Wikipedia.
- The actual prose part of the awfully-named "Documentaries and Other Media" section is also poor in that it contains two things: a film synopsis and a brief sentence for relating the film to the college - which is just restating that it is Brown College on Monroe Hill at the University of Virginia.
The (entirely unreferenced) Activities section reads like an advertisement.
The timeline could easily be in prose.
Fail stopping before getting into detail

Coverage

Just from reading the one source attributing the History wall, I can see that there's a lot more on the history and the main building than the article contains. This information is in a source that's been cherrypicked for the article, why is it not included?
On the other hand, some of the things mentioned thereafter seem trivial. If things like the quirky essay questions and social events were expanded on, their inclusion wouldn't seem so misplaced.
Fail gaps

Illustration

The image of the buildings could surely be placed in the infobox?
Both infoboxes look good
The Monroe Hill artwork is very big, but I'm also not sure if it's necessary.
Needs attention

Stability

Good
Pass

Verifiability

The sources seem generally good, if inconsistently formatted.
However, there are a few dead links
About half the article is unreferenced.
The source currently [16] only establishes the titles Grand Poobah and Shama Llama Ding Dong, it does not mention anything else it is supposedly attributing.
Fail

Neutrality

Parts are very much like advertising (see above).
Fail

Copyright

Check looks fine
Pass

Overall

This is very far from meeting the GA criteria. Kingsif (talk) 05:01, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]