Talk:Illinois Route 22/GA1
GA Review
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Reviewer: --- Dough4872 16:08, 4 November 2009 (UTC) Comments:
- The article has all the required sections, sufficient images, and a map.
- There are several areas of the article that contain uncited information.
- Reference 2 is a personal website and not a reliable source.
Due to the bottom two being major issues, I will have to fail the article. One more references can be added, the article may be renominated. --- Dough4872 16:08, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
- I added a bunch more references/citations. I didn't want to excessively cite, but nearly everything mentioned in article can be found from the supplied references. As for reference that is a personal website, it is, however it very reliable as it is even directly mentioned on IDOTs official site. [1] I really think that source should be accepted. There's is no other history that I could find and as for the citations, unless you want me to tediously cite every sentence repeatedly, this is very close to being completely cited. This has been a painstaking effort and I really hope it can be promoted. RoadView (talk) 12:45, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
- There should be citations for every piece of information in the article. If there are multiple sentences together that use one citation, then a citation should be placed at the end of the group of sentences. Generally, a citation should exist at the end of every paragraph. As for the personal website, this is a rare occasion in which, upon further examination, the site may be acceptable. However, it should be used carefully. ---Dough4872 04:28, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
- I added further citations, many of which seemed excessive. The lead is cited less due to the fact that many GA leads I see have limited citations because the information is repeated and cited later on. I'm not really sure what more I can do with the citations, I already feel as if I am starting to lower the quality of the article with too many citations. I have spent upwards of 30 hours with researching/editing this single article and it is getting to the point where it is much more work and frustration than anything. I have hopes of getting this promoted one more time and probably working on additional articles. But now I am seriously discouraged from doing this as the process has become so incredibly tedious, extended, and repetitive that this may be it for the serious editing. I can't even imagine the amount of time and the corrections that would be needed for a FA attempt. Maybe I need a second opinion on this but, is this finally getting promoted or is there even further that work must be done? RoadView (talk) 13:42, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
- The article is looking better, but I will leave it up to a second reviewer to review it and determine whether this can be a GA. ---Dough4872 20:22, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
- I added further citations, many of which seemed excessive. The lead is cited less due to the fact that many GA leads I see have limited citations because the information is repeated and cited later on. I'm not really sure what more I can do with the citations, I already feel as if I am starting to lower the quality of the article with too many citations. I have spent upwards of 30 hours with researching/editing this single article and it is getting to the point where it is much more work and frustration than anything. I have hopes of getting this promoted one more time and probably working on additional articles. But now I am seriously discouraged from doing this as the process has become so incredibly tedious, extended, and repetitive that this may be it for the serious editing. I can't even imagine the amount of time and the corrections that would be needed for a FA attempt. Maybe I need a second opinion on this but, is this finally getting promoted or is there even further that work must be done? RoadView (talk) 13:42, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
- There should be citations for every piece of information in the article. If there are multiple sentences together that use one citation, then a citation should be placed at the end of the group of sentences. Generally, a citation should exist at the end of every paragraph. As for the personal website, this is a rare occasion in which, upon further examination, the site may be acceptable. However, it should be used carefully. ---Dough4872 04:28, 7 November 2009 (UTC)