Talk:Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia/GA1

GA Reassessment

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Starting GA reassessment as part of the GA Sweeps process. Jezhotwells (talk) 12:10, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Checking against GA criteria

In order to uphold the quality of Wikipedia:Good articles, all articles listed as Good articles are being reviewed against the GA criteria as part of the GA project quality task force. While all the hard work that has gone into this article is appreciated, unfortunately, as of August 14, 2009, this article fails to satisfy the criteria, as detailed below. For that reason, the article has been delisted from WP:GA. However, if improvements are made bringing the article up to standards, the article may be nominated at WP:GAN. If you feel this decision has been made in error, you may seek remediation at WP:GAR.

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
In several instance a given name, e.g. Sergiy is used when the family name, in this case Stragorodsky, should be used.Contractions such as it's should not be used. With the rise of the communists most of the church properties in Palestine remained in the hands of those at odds with the Bolsheviks, and the majority of these joined with the ROCOR. - sloppy one or the other Bolsheviks and communists are not synonomous. I would suggest a thorough copy edit as it seems no-one has looked at this article overall for some time.

The Lead should fully summarize the artcile - it does not do so at present. Every section should be represented in this summary. Jezhotwells (talk) 15:13, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
I repaired a number of links using WP:CHECKLINKS. One dead link has been tagged (#22).

The Church has over 400 parishes worldwide, and an estimated membership of over 400,000 people is a very close paraphrase of the source, please rephrase.

I would like to see all sources correctly attributed in the references in a consistent manner. Currently many are just bare urls without titles or attribution , e.g. to Novoisti, ROCOR, ROC or whatever. Jezhotwells (talk) 15:13, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
I think there is a little too much detail about Sr. Maria Stephanopoulos

, could do with trimming. Jezhotwells (talk) 15:13, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars etc.:
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
On hold for seven days for these issues to be addressed. Major contributors and projects being informed. Jezhotwells (talk) 15:13, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've restructured the article a bit. It has long been imbalanced. The above prompted me to finally work on it. I moved much of the detail regarding Sr. Maria Stephanopolis to a new article in which it is less out of place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Properties_in_Palestine Frjohnwhiteford (talk) 02:59, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Howver there are still a number of issues outstanding - the prose still needs copy-editing, tehre are now two dead links in the refernces.I shall delist it. It can always be brought back to {{WP:GAN]] when rewritten. Jezhotwells (talk) 11:27, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]