Talk:Imru' al-Qais/GA2

GA Reassessment

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This article appears to have several issues that need to be resolved to meet the GA criteria.

the orange cleanup banner atop the article needs to be addressed
the citation needed tags throughout the article need to be addressed
tweaking to avoid peacock language, such as in " this most famous of the Jahili (pre-Islamic) poets" or "To this day Imru' al-Qays remains the best-known of the pre-Islamic poets, and has been a source of literary and national inspiration for Arabic intellectuals all the way into the 20th century"
"who was the greatest of all the Kindite kings" -- as an opinion, needs sourcing
some copyediting appears needed, as here
It's a dead link now, but was http://www.almoallaqat.com/poetDetails.do?poetId=1 ever a reliable source? The home page [1] doesn't look promising.

The site appears to be defunct now. When the article was composed, it had full text of all 7 poems, plus audio files of recitation, plus bios on poets (all in Arabic). Maitham d (talk) 15:19, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, remember, the important point is not what it had, but who published it-- i.e., if it was a reliable publisher with a reputation for fact-checking. Seems to be a moot point now, though. -- Khazar2 (talk) 00:29, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'll ping the original nominator and reviewer, and give this a week for the issues above to be addressed. Thanks to everybody who's worked on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:20, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Khazar2. Can you please postpone the GA review period so that it begins after 9 July, 2013? That is the day of my last preliminary exam for my doctoral program. Right now I am in crunch-time study mode and will not have sufficient time to work on the article until then.

I've had a look at the page and the issues you mentioned, and I think I will be able to address all of them. I no longer have access to the books I used for the original article (they are in a library in a city I've since moved away from), and one of my best web sources (almoallaqat.com) appears to be defunct, but it looks like Britannica has good information and I should be able to find some other sources.

Thanks for the recommendations and thank you, too, for your understanding! Maitham d (talk) 15:35, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, that's no problem. I'll check in again on July 14th or so; that way you can have a breather after your exams. I do think the article needs delisting in its current state, but it's sat this way for a year already; a few more weeks will do no harm, and I'd be glad to help improve it back up to GA. Again, good luck in the exams! -- Khazar2 (talk) 18:01, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Since July 14 has come and gone without any apparent progress or update, I'm delisting this for now. It appears that a substantial rewrite will be needed to meet the GA criteria, so it's probably better that this happen outside the time pressure of a GA reassessment. I hope you'll still consider rewriting this one, though, and renominating it once the cleanup issues have been addressed. Thanks for your work! I hope the exams went well, -- Khazar2 (talk) 00:29, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]