Talk:Citadel of Damascus/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:34, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Hello, I will be reviewing this article against the good article criteria over the next several days, performing noncontroversial copyedits in the meantime. I will then come back with the review and place it here. I will not fail the article just because it is not completed within 7 days, but I will expect to see some work or a note stating that you won't be able to edit for several days. Thanks! Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:34, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Oi, that's fast. Usually it takes weeks before an article is reviewed. The architecture is not yet finished. I am one of the main contributors (but not the nominator, I would have waited with that) and I hope to be able to finish this section this weekend, but I am not sure whether that is going to work. -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 18:09, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

That's fine! Just let me know when you are finished, and I will get on with it! Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:05, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

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Overall this looks good! I will AGF that the offline sources support what you say, since I have none of the books.

Copyediting & prose

• "After the assassination of Atsiz bin Uvak, the project was finished the Seljuk ruler Tutush I." Huh? Do you mean "was finished by the Seljuk ruler"?
  •  Done
• "The citadel continued to serve as barracks and prison until 1986, when excavations and restorations started that continue until today." Did they stop this very day? Or are they ongoing? "Until" implies an endpoint.
  •  Done
• After an introductory prepositional phrase, you need a comma before beginning the main clause. I corrected some of these, but they are very widespread. (For example, "In 1234 John of Damascus rode a donkey." should be "In 1234, John of Damascus rode a donkey."
  •  Done

Referencing & links

• The walls are partly obscured from sight by the urban fabric of Damascus, which has encroached upon the citadel during the 19th and 20th centuries. The shops along the north side of the Al-Hamidiyah Souq are built against the citadel's southern façade, while parts of the eastern defences are also obscured by buildings. The buildings that stood against the western wall have been cleared in the 1980s. Unreferenced.
  •  Done
• Ref #47 has as publisher "www.nmdcsyria.org". Change this to the actual publisher of the website.
  •  Done

Sectioning & structure

• Shouldn't the section "Description of the citadel" be "Description of the new citadel" since that is what you are describing?
  •  Done Changed it to 'The citadel today', since parts of the Seljuk citadel are still standing. -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 16:54, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Review

GA review (see here for criteria)

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Looks good now! I'll pass the article!

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):

   One image is missing author information, but it claims to be {{PD-self}}.

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail: