Talk:Rio de Janeiro/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Dana boomer (talk · contribs) 18:28, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I'll be reviewing this article for GA and should have a full review up shortly. Dana boomer (talk) 18:28, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, I am going to fail this article's nomination for GA status. The most serious issue is the sourcing, but there are also quite a few other problems:

There is a significant amount of unsourced information. Some of it is marked with citation needed tags, much of it is not. Statistics, opinions, quotes, etc. need references. This is the biggest issue with the article, and it will take the longest to fix.
19 (!!) dead links, see here, some (but not all) of them marked.
Quite a few probably unreliable references (These are examples, found during a quick look. The number of dead links and the missing information in many refs makes it much more difficult to check reference reliability.):
- #13 - Where is Rio de Janeiro?
- #35 - TravelBlog
- #46 - Portuguese in Brazil and Rio
- #106 - Studylanguages.org
- #121 - Flickr
Many refs need additional information. All web refs should include a title, publisher and access date at the very least, and an indication of the language that they are in if it is not English. Books found on Google books should be formatted as books, not websites published by Google.
Other ref issues (again, examples):
- #58 - Barsa Planeta Ltda - doesn't go where it's supposed to.
- #105 - Correio Web. - doesn't go where it's supposed to.
Road transport - This is not a map service. We shouldn't give directions, as the last three sentences of this section do.
Notable cariocas - NO sources!! What is the criteria for inclusion in this list?
The prose needs some serious work. Sentences like "A history of the Brazilian Academy of Letters is linked to the Royal Cabinet, since the five solemn." and "own by Tamarion Johnson" make no sense. I also found several pieces of unsourced POV writing - "the place to be" - in a quick look.
Links to five disambiguation pages: Carnaval, Resende, São Gonçalo, Cidade de Deus, Flag of Rio de Janeiro.
Standardize to one variety of English - there is both neighbor and neighbour, for instance, as well as both meter and metre.
Text should not be sandwiched between two images, or between an infobox and an image. This happens in several places throughout the article.

Overall, this article is quite a ways from good article status. I would suggest the nominator (who, as far as I can see, has made no edits to the article) work on this article with an eye towards proper and complete sourcing, serviceable prose, and basic MOS compliance. Although the article is in decent shape for one on a city of this size, it still needs quite a bit of work before it meets the good article criteria. If you have any questions, please let me know, Dana boomer (talk) 23:22, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]