Talk:The Brown Daily Herald

The Brown Daily Herald was a Social sciences and society 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.

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Date	Process	Result
March 30, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed

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Complete Rewrite

I've totally rewritten this article, and hopefully it will be well-received. I can see that some people have already started editing it, which is great. Chaz! 21:26, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV

Most prominent publication is clear and definite POV. That is just at a glance. Any statement like that needs to be backed with sources or it should be immediately removed.IvoShandor 04:41, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This article fails to meet the Good article criteria and has, thus, been failed.

Image lack fair use rationales where applicable.
Fails well written criteria, way way too listy, lead doesn't conform to WP:LEAD.
Image:ClintonBrown.jpg: this image is incorrectly tagged, also note, press images DO NOT fall under fair use. The Brown Daily Herald website contains this copyright notice: Copyright 2007 by The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. All rights reserved, at the bottom of every page. I have recommended speedy deletion as these are copyright violations.

You can contest this at GA review, however, I can all but guarantee that this failure will be endorsed.

There are a host of other problems here, recommend a comprehensive Peer review before resubmitting.IvoShandor 06:57, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]