Talk:Euro banknotes/GA2

GA Review

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Reviewer: Pyrotec (talk · contribs) 12:11, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

I will review. Pyrotec (talk) 12:11, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Initial comments

I've now completed a quick initial read of the article, but I've not checked any references or citations, and it appears to be at or about GA-level, but there do appear to be a few areas that need minor improvements.

I'm now going to work my way through the article: starting at the History section, work my way to the end and then go back and look at the WP:Lead. Pyrotec (talk) 16:56, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

• History -

• The article states: After tough negotiations, particularly due to opposition from the United Kingdom,[2] the Maastricht Treaty entered into force in 1993 with the goal of creating economic and monetary union by 1999 for all EU states except the UK and Denmark (even though Denmark has a fixed exchange rate policy with the euro).[2], but information does not seem to appear on the web page corresponding to ref 2. Done

• Denominations -

• The abbreviations "BCE, ECB, EZB, ΕΚΤ, EKP" need to be defined, or explained. Putting EKP in wikipedia gives the article Communist Party of Estonia and BCE gives a disabiguation page - I suspect that neither of these two articles are relevant to what is being discussed here.  Done
• Ref 3 leads to the denominations "tab" of the Bank notes web page which shows images of the euro notes, but it does not confirm the rest of the claims. They be appear to be verifiable on the "design elements" tab of the bank notes web page. It would be help to the reader by making it clear that both "tabs" should be viewed to verify the claims supported by ref 3. However, in the Specification section the "design elements" tab page is reference 12, so perhaps is intended to have separate citations for the two web pages, in which case many of the citations attributed to ref 3 are not verifiable by ref 3 (but they would be verifiable by ref 12). Done
• The third paragraph is completely unreferenced. Done

• Specification -

• Ref 5 has a broken web link after the publisher's name (EuroTracer), but it does not appear to be needed since the title is a live web link.  Done
• Its not clear why ref 6 has a "www.eurotracer.net. 2002" after the publisher's name and refs 7 to 11 have ".eurotracer.net. 2002" after the publisher's name.  Done
• The first paragraph after the table needs a minor copyedit: its not clear why there is discussion about a map, since this article does not have a map. The map under discussion is that in ref 12.
• The final paragraph make no sense, i.e. "The first reprints of the note use ...", since there has been no discussion of printing or reprinting. That information is not given until the second subsection of the following section, neither are Willem Duisenberg, Jean-Claude Trichet and Mario Draghi wikilinked here (this it their first occurrence). There are wikilinked in the following, Design section, but Willem Duisenberg has become Wim Duisenberg!! Done
• It might help if this section was placed after the Design section.

• Design -
  • unnamed subsection & Changes subsection -

• Most of the statements attributed to ref 3 are not verifiable by ref 3 (but they would be verifiable by ref 12). Done
• Reg 16 has a broken web link - it gives a 404 error message. Done

....stopping at this point. To be continued. Pyrotec (talk) 19:04, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

• • Security features -

Article not touched by writer since review, so failing. Wizardman 04:02, 17 November 2012 (UTC)