Talk:Maritime republics/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Quadell (talk · contribs) 14:02, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator: Codrinb

I will review this article shortly. – Quadell ^(talk) 14:02, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to have to quickfail this GA nomination. The article is tagged as having "multiple issues", mostly relating to the citations, and I have to agree. Most of the article does not have inline citations, which is a requirement for GA status (2b). In addition, I would point out that the lead does not adequately summarize the entire article, as described at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section.

There are many good things about this article. It provides a lot of relevant information, and it's well written with lively prose. There are a lot of useful images with appropriate captions. But without inline citations, it is impossible for the reader to verify the information in the article, and so I can't promote it at this time.

If you are able to accurately and thoroughly provide inline citations, and if you also rewrite the lead to effectively summarize all sections of the article, the you can feel free to resubmit the article as a GA nominee. All the best, – Quadell ^(talk) 14:16, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! All makes sense. I plan to work on these issues in the not so distant future. --Codrin.B (talk) 20:31, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]