Talk:Famine in India/GA4

GA Review

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Reviewer: Jezhotwells (talk) 19:21, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

I shall be reviewing this article against the Good Article criteria, following its nomination for Good Article status.

Disambiguations: one found and fixed.[1] Jezhotwells (talk) 19:30, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Linkrot: three found and tagged.[2] Jezhotwells (talk) 19:35, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Checking against GA criteria

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

   Organization: Poor, with several sections such as Bengal famine of 1943 seemingly out of place.

   Famine has been a recurrent feature of life in the Indian sub-continental countries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and reached its numerically deadliest peak in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

   British famine policy in India was influenced by the arguments of Adam Smith, as seen by the non-interference of the government with the grain market even in times of famines

   East India Company's raising of taxes disastrously coincided with this famine[85] and exacerbated it, even if the famine was not caused by the British regime.

   Since the Bengal famine of 1943, there has been a declining number of famines which have had limited effects and have been of short durations.

   Large scale employment to the deprived sections of Maharashtrian society which attracted considerable amounts of food to Maharashtra.

   Very poor prose throughout. Article needs thorough copy-editing by someone with a a good command of written English. It should never have been nominated in this shoddy state. GAN reviews are not the place to start addressing the WP:GACR criteria. They are where compliance is checked.

   has used instead of "have" in several places.

   List in Ancient, medieval and pre-colonial India needs turning into prose

   Infobox for the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development is unnecessary and out of place.

   According to them, the flowering is followed by a large quantity of bamboo seeds on the forest floor which causes a spike in the population of the Rattus and Mus genus of rats who feed of these seeds. With the changing weather and onset of rains, the seeds germinate and force the mice to migrate to land farms in search of food. On the land farms, the mice feed on crops and grains stored in granaries which causes a decline in food availability better to use rodents as having introduced "rattus" the succeeding sentences focus on "mice".

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

   Un-addressed citation formatting tag.

   Un-addressed full citation tag

   three dead links have been tagged

   Potentially dated statement tags from 2002 & 2010

   Availbe sources appear RS

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

   Hard to assess as article is poorly organized.

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

   Hard to judge with the present poor prose.

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):

   File:Rattus norvegicus 1.jpg illustrates a brown rat, yet talks about Mus as well which is a mouse genus.

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

   This article is some way from GA class, perhaps C is a more accurate rating at the moment. Get it copy-edited properly and take to peer review before renominating. Jezhotwells (talk) 20:10, 20 March 2011 (UTC)