Talk:Siege of Dubrovnik/GA1

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Reviewer: Grandiose (talk · contribs) 16:10, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be taking this review. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 16:10, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Images: fine. Lead image is non-free; rationale is thorough and I accept it. The effective resolution is smaller than the current resolution because of the way the image has come to be on WP. I have added the Freedom of panorama template to a couple of images just to be clear. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 21:05, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Prose: I have made a series of small changes to the prose. The only change that needs checking is the change of "east" to "west" of Montenegro, since I could not see any way the proposed state in Dubrovnik could be east of Montenegro - the boundary river runs through Croatia. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 13:23, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sourcing: every controversial statement is reference to some source. I've considered whether the range of sources is appropriate, particularly in the controversial areas. The claims made are not needlessly inflammatory, which reduces the need for even better sourcing, but regardless the mix of Western news reports, ICTY documents, and local/national news reports I think is satisfactory, all things considered. Going further (ACR or FA) I think it would be worth investing some time going even further to reduce the number of Serbian and Croatian references in controversial areas, even though, as I say, most claims are factual. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 13:28, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Neutrality: fine, as per above. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 13:28, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Lead - a couple of small tweaks made, otherwise a useful and proper summary of the article. Layout - almost textbook; all sections of suitable length and on the whole meaningful. I've changed the semicolon usage to lvl four headings (even though they now follow a lvl 2) because I understand that usage is deprecated. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 13:41, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Stable - nothing in the history leads me to believe that the article is unstable.Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 13:52, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

'Coverage - very good, both broad and focussed. Thorough.Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 13:52, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright/plagiarism - I've checked a couple of sentences against both the web in general looking for similar passages and the English-language source in each case. I have been unable to verify that any given passage has not been taken from a foreign-language source directly, but since I have verify a couple I shall AGF on the remainder; I have no reason to believe otherwise. (Copyright and plagiarism is often endemic to an article.) Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 13:52, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Overall - Tomobe has fixed some harvnb problems I flagged at his talk page after I opened this review, and, as a result, I have no outstanding concerns. For the reasons given above, I am passing the article. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 13:52, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]