Talk:The Guardian/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Cirt (talk · contribs) 18:51, 15 October 2012 (UTC) I will review this article. — Cirt (talk) 18:51, 15 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Failed GA status due to numerous sourcing problems, poor referencing standards, lack of citations in many places all over entire article:

Bare links and unformatted cites, please format all cites using 'WP:CIT cite templates.
C. P. Scott subsection = last paragraph is uncited.
Spanish Civil War subsection = entire section is uncited.
Post-war subsection = 2nd sentence has a clarification needed tag.
Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq subsection = there's a citation needed tag.
Ownership subsection = 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th paragraphs have several uncited sentences.
Political stance and editorial opinion subsection = 1st and 2nd paragraph have uncited sentences.
Publication history subsection = All paragraphs in this subsection have uncited sentences.
Moving to the Berliner paper format subsection = All paragraphs in this subsection have uncited sentences.
Reception subsection = 1st paragraph in this section has uncited sentence.
Regular content and features = Most of this section is largely uncited.
Online media subsection = End of 2nd paragraph is uncited.
GuardianFilms subsection = 2nd and 3rd paragraphs have uncited quotes, a big no-no.
References in popular culture subsection = End of 1st paragraph is uncited.
Awards subsection = Both sub-sects in this sect have lots of uncited material.
Editors sect = Totally uncited.
Notable regular contributors (past and present) sect = Uncited and tagged as problem sect.
The Guardian News & Media Archive sect = largely uncited.