Talk:Malaysia/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Nikkimaria (talk) 13:29, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I will be reviewing this article for potential GA status. My review should be posted shortly. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 13:29, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, I don't feel this article is ready for GA status. I encourage you to continue working to improve the article, incorporating the suggestions below. Nikkimaria (talk) 18:27, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Writing and formatting

Needs a general copy-edit for grammar and clarity
Use a consistent date formatting - probably "day month year"
First paragraph of Etymology is very repetitive
Avoid repetition and contradiction between and within sections
Don't link the same terms multiple times, particularly not in close proximity
Spell out "WWII". What happened in Malaysia during WWII?
{{specify}} needs to be dealt with
Is secondary education compulsory?
Provide conversions of metric figures

Accuracy and verifiability

See here for a list of problematic external links
Footnotes should appear after punctuation consistently
Citations needed for:

statistics in infobox
However, the date was delayed until September 16, 1963, due to opposition from the Indonesian government led by Sukarno and attempts by the Sarawak United People's Party to delay the formation of Malaysia.
For the name Malaisia, Dumont d'Urville had in mind a region including present day Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
the Chief Minister is required to be a Malay-Muslim, although this rule is subject to the rulers' discretion
whilst some of the maritime boundaries have been the subject of ongoing contention
In 2008, GDP per capita (PPP) of Malaysia stands at US$14,215, ranking it 48th in the world, and 3rd in Southeast Asia (after Singapore and Brunei)
During the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis the ringgit was subject to speculative short-selling—falling from MYR 2.50 per USD to a low of MYR 4.80—and capital flowed out of the country. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's composite index dropped from 1,300 points to around 400 points within a few weeks. The central bank imposed capital controls and pegged the Malaysian ringgit to the US dollar, while the government refused economic aid packages from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank
It is one of the region's leading education and healthcare providers
Popular within the cities is Light Rail Transit
Tourism Malaysia aims to market Malaysia as a premier destination of excellence in the region
The government continues to try and promote this sector and its competitiveness, actively marketing the defence industry
In an effort to create a self-reliant defensive ability and support national development Malaysia privatized some of its military facilities in the 1970s
There also exist aboriginal groups in much smaller numbers on the peninsula, where they are collectively known as Orang Asli
The population distribution is highly uneven, with some 20 million residents concentrated on the Malay Peninsula, while East Malaysia has about 7 million people. Due to the rise in labour intensive industries, Malaysia has 10% to 20% foreign workers, the exact figure being uncertain due in part to the large number of illegal workers. There are a million legal foreign workers and perhaps another million unauthorised foreigners. The state of Sabah alone had nearly 25% of its 2.7 million population listed as illegal foreign workers in the last census.
Largest cities of Malaysia table
A variant of the Malay language that is spoken in Brunei is also commonly spoken in both states.
Before progressing to the secondary level of education, pupils in Year 6 are required to sit for the Primary School Achievement Test
Since the Islamisation movement of the 1980s and 90s, these aspects are often neglected or banned altogether. Because any Malay-speaking Muslim is entitled to bumiputra privileges, many non-Malay Muslims have adopted the Malay language, customs and attire in the last few decades
A Tamil Muslim community of 200,000 also thrives as an independent subcultural group. A small number of Malaysians have caucasian ancestry, and speak a variety of creole languages.

Don't use bare URLs in references
All web sources should have at minimum a URL, title, publisher and retrieval date
Use a consistent formatting for references
All book sources should have at minimum author (where available), title, publication date, publisher, and page numbers
Ref 15: which volume?
Encyclopedia of the Nations is not a reliable source
What makes this a reliable source? This? This?
This is not a reliable source.
What makes this a reliable source?
This is not a reliable source
Use the original source for this
About.com is not a reliable source
This is not a reliable source, and neither is this or this
This site is promotional, as is this one
This is not a reliable source
This is a Wikipedia mirror
This is a commercial site
Cite the original source for this
This is not a reliable source
What makes this or this or this or this a reliable source?
This is not a reliable source

Broad

Any information on Malaysian media - newspapers, radio, TV, etc?
Culture section should be broader, and incorporate information on Malaysian cuisine, dance, literature, etc
As it stands, there is some overlap between Culture and Demographics
Perhaps add a short subsection on rankings? New Zealand does this well
Consider condensing and merging Tourism into the main Economy section
Transportation, Energy and Healthcare should be subsections of an "Infrastructure" section, not of Economy. Education should be its own section, as likely should Science
Holidays and festivals could be condensed

Neutrality

Be sure to maintain an encyclopedic tone at all times
Avoid POV, especially when not supported by a source. For example, "the emasculation of the Malay rulers" is a highly POV phrase
Avoid sensationalism and dramatization

Stability

I see fairly frequent reversions in the article history, but no massive edit-wars

Images

Images should be as relevant as possible to the text they accompany
Avoid stacking images
Image captions should meet requirements for prose quality, verifiability, and neutrality
Coat of arms is missing fair-use rationale
Japanese troop image is lacking author information, and source link is dead
Commonwealth Games logo is missing fair-use rationale for this article