Talk:United States Academic Decathlon/GA1

GA Review

GA on Hold

This article has been placed on hold as there are some issues that need to be sorted out before it can be promoted to good article status: -

The USAD is a competition for US schools yet in the history section teams from other countries are mentioned, I think this needs explaining. Was it that year only, or a regular thing?
The section on the E nationals needs explaining to describe their purpose better and why they are being run as well as the traditional event.
The accusations against Burke need clarifying. It seems unclear to me why he was reprimanded for wanting the results checked.

This article will be watched for seven days and if after that time no significant improvement has been made may be failed. Good luck! Million_Moments (talk) 14:34, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I added a statement in the history section to address the issue regarding competitors from foreign countries. Hopefully it is enough to sate the curiosity of you and other readers because I cannot find much information besides what I have presented. The reason the Small School e-Nationals section is so short is because there is not much information to be found on it. I've added USAD's reasoning for having the competition, but that's the best I could do. Hopefully it is enough. Regarding the accusations against Burke, I've reworded almost the entire paragraph. Hopefully it now is more understandable (and is still NPOV). Let me know if you think it still needs work. Thanks for taking to the time to review the article! - Yohhans^talk 03:55, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA Pass

Congratulations, this article has passed and is now listed as a good article! The article provides an in depth history of the competion and describes the various aspects very well, as well as remianing neutral. Part of a GA review is to put forwrd ideas to improve the article even more. The article is starting to get long (see WP:Article size) and I suggest the list of competion winners be split into a separate article in order to keep the size down. Secondly, having a fair use image of a medal is not ideal. What this image does is illustrate the reward that participants recieve for winning, if possible a free content image of participants recieving their medals would be better though I understand this maybe hard to come by. Finally, the E schools national section does still need expansion if possible.

Well done and keep up the good work! Million_Moments (talk) 14:05, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]