Talk:Thirty Years' War/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Tim riley (talk · contribs) 11:17, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Starting first read-through. More soonest. Tim riley talk 11:17, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Before I go into detailed comments, can we establish which variety of English the article is meant to be in? At present it appears to be mostly in BrEng with occasional lapses into AmEng: "councillors", "metres", "favoured", "neighbouring", "an historical" and "theatre" on the one hand, and "neighboring", "unraveled" and "centers on the other. Tim riley talk 11:39, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Dead links: refs 21, 46, 51, 72, 73 and the first two External links.

I now turn to the details of the text, and am sorry to say that the article is nowhere near GA standard so far as GA criterion 2b is concerned. "Origins of the war" contains eight paragraphs – some quite long – with no citations whatever, and the same lack persists at many points throughout the article. This is serious enough to disqualify it from promotion: the "Immediate failure" criterion 2 clearly applies, and I am therefore failing the nomination. It is a great pity, as the article is well written, interesting and looks balanced and authoritative, but with wholesale lack of citation of reliable sources it will not do for GA.– Tim riley talk 12:16, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

1. Is it reasonably well written?

   A. Prose quality:

   B. MoS compliance:

2. Is it factually accurate and verifiable?

   A. References to sources:

   B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:

   C. No original research:

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

   A. Major aspects:

   B. Focused:

4. Is it neutral?

   Fair representation without bias:

5. Is it stable?

   No edit wars, etc:

6. Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?

   A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:

   B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:

7. Overall:

   Pass or Fail: