Talk:Operation Poomalai

Operation Poomalai was a Warfare good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
April 16, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 11, 2006.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Operation Poomalai was a humanitarian supply airdrop over Jaffna, Sri Lanka by the Indian Air Force in June 1987, and was the first active intervention by India in the Sri Lankan Civil War?

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This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-class status:
Referencing and citation: criterion met Coverage and accuracy: criterion met Structure: criterion met Grammar and style: criterion met Supporting materials: criterion met

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WPMILHIST Assessment

Thank you for your hard work in producing a lengthy, interesting, and well-written article. However, the introduction is written with the assumption in mind that the reader knows that Sri Lanka is being discussed. References to Tamils, Columbo, and Jaffna imply it, but it should be explicitly expressed as early in the article as possible that this takes place in Sri Lanka and which events/war this relates to. Thank you. LordAmeth 18:21, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA failed

The GA nomination has failed, for now. After you address the issue laid out below feel free to renominate it. I will be posting my full review with intense comments shortly. Thank you for your patience. IvoShandor 13:36, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good article review

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (inline citations): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
It is stable.
It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.
Pass/Fail:
a Well written:

b Factually accurate:

c Broad in coverage:

d NPOV:

e Stable:

f Images:

g Overall:

If the article failed the nomination, the comments below will help in addressing the problems. Once these tasks are accomplished, the article can be resubmitted for consideration. If you feel that this review is in error, please feel free to take it to a GA review. You can see how I, personally, applied the six criteria above at this link. I sincerely thank you for your work so far.

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Review by: IvoShandor

More specific comments

Criteria #1: Well written.

Prose:

Numerous specific problems here caused this article to fail GA criteria #1. It appeared that the article was written by a non-native English speaker, which is fine, but it appeared, as well, that the article had received a copy edit from a native speaker, however, numerous errors were missed.

Look for long run on/awkwardly worded sentences, an awkward and major grammatical error, example:n the 1970s, two major Tamil parties united to form the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) that started agitation for a separate state of Tamil Eelam within the system in a federal structure in the north and eastern Sri Lanka[4] that would grant the Tamils greater autonomy.
There was more than one occurance of this kind of mistake, look for them. Read stuff aloud if you unsure, if it sounds weird or is hard to say, it is probably an awkward sentence or run on or fragment or the like and should be reworded.

Watch for redundancies, for example: has been --> "was"

A thorough copy edit or two is very necessary in this case.

Structure

Overall pretty good, with any expansion make sure you add appropriate sections accordingly.

MOS

The bold is unnecessary, use only in the first mention of the title within the lead.
Go ahead and use the second tier headline instead of the third: ==headline==
Combine any one sentence paragraphs into the paragraph above or below them.
Make sure the lead represents a good summary of the entire article per WP:LEAD, it should be able to stand alone if it had to. Also assure the lead length conforms to the above guideline.
Srilankan Navy: Wouldn't it be "Sri Lankan Navy"? Be consistent here.

Jargon

Gp Capt
Wg Cdr
Coramandel coast: Should be wikilinked if possible
1500 Hours: I don't know if military time or the 24 hour clock is desirable or necessary. You decide.
feet: Should be wikilinked on its first occurence and the metric equivalent should be given in parenthesis after each measurement.

Criteria #2: Verifiable

References

References are not properly formatted, see WP:CITE, WP:CITET (these templates will give you an idea of what information to include even if you don't use them), WP:RS.

Inline citations

In line citations in the middle of sentences are awkward and very distracting to the reader, just move them to the end of the sentence.

Reliable

Without proper citation information the reliability of the sources is very hard to judge.

Original research

Again proper use of references is essential in this article

Criteria #3: Thoroughness

Major aspects

What happened on the Sri Lankan side of things? How did their military and government respond to the incursion? Not having this can slant the article's POV.
What was the outcome of the humanitarian crisis that the operation was meant to alleviate? What happened to the people?
The question of whether or not there was any kind of hostile fire should be answered directly.

Focus

Criteria #4: NPOV

Fair representation

Minus the concerns below seemed a pretty fair assessment. I wonder if you might even be able to add a few more details from the main articles.

All significant views

Without the information from the Sri Lankan side during the actual operation the article comes across as very one sided, nothing a paragraph or two shouldn't be able to fix accordingly.

Criteria #5: Stable

Article appears to have had some POV issues in the past but it looks stable now.

Criteria #6: Images

Tags/captions

Fair use images were all tagged and a rationale provided, good work there.

Lack of

NA

Free use

Can we get an image for the top right corner of the page? It would look more like most articles on the Wiki.

IvoShandor 14:10, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

File:Paradropped Supply.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion

An image used in this article, File:Paradropped Supply.jpg, has been nominated for speedy deletion for the following reason: Wikipedia files with no non-free use rationale as of 3 December 2011

What should I do?

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If the image is non-free then you may need to provide a fair use rationale
If the image isn't freely licensed and there is no fair use rationale, then it cannot be uploaded or used.
If the image has already been deleted you may want to try Deletion Review

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