Talk:Okomu National Park/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs) 19:09, 26 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I propose to review this article and will make a detailed reading shortly. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:09, 26 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

First reading

The article is generally well-written and appears to be fairly comprehensive. Some points I noticed:

The second paragraph of "History" mentions various areas which need to be consistent in format, and preferably use the "convert" template. It is illogical to express areas in square kilometers and then talk of a one-mile wide buffer strip.
"... was gazetted from the Okomu Forest Reserve in 1935." - Wikilink or explain "gazetted".
Looking at the first paragraph of "History", much of the information there is not included in the source given at the end of the paragraph.
Having now looked at that source in detail, it mentions "To the south and southeast the forest was separated from the coast by mangrove and swamp forests, while to the north it merged into the Guinean Forest-Savanna Mosaic eco-region" and the article uses identical wording "To the south and southeast the forest was separated from the coast by mangrove and swamp forests, while to the north it merged into the Guinean Forest-Savanna Mosaic ecoregion." This is a copyright infringement and is quite unacceptable.

@QatarStarsLeague: Having found this copyright problem I will now suspend this review to give you a chance to remove the violation and any other similar problems. If nothing is done within the next seven days, I will fail the nomination. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:10, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Cwmhiraeth, QatarStarsLeague has only one edit in the past weeks, on September 20; the one before that was September 3. That said, QatarStarsLeague never edited this article before nominating it, so since it's been over a week, I'd close the nomination as unsuccessful. One point I should make is that the problematic material you note was added to the article prior to the current source's publication: it was originally sourced to an Encyclopedia of Earth webpage (per this November 2010 version of the article), but that source's URL is no longer functional, which is probably why it was replaced. The source used now, however, dates from April 2011 and extensively copied the Wikipedia article from that time. However, since the old source is no longer available and no longer cited, all material in the article that uses the replacement source that copied Wikipedia needs new, valid sourcing anyway, and this cannot be listed without it. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:16, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Since there seems to be nobody available to work with the reviewer and make the necessary improvements to the article, I am failing this GA nomination on the grounds of inadequate sourcing as mentioned by BlueMoonset above. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:27, 8 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]