Talk:Zerai Deres

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December 30, 2018	Good article nominee	Not listed

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that both Eritrea and Ethiopia consider Zerai Deres (pictured) a folk hero of anti-fascism and anticolonialism?

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Referencing and citation: criterion not met Coverage and accuracy: criterion not met Structure: criterion met Grammar and style: criterion met Supporting materials: criterion met

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Entry is a fake

Entry is a fake as stated and shown in https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussione:Zerai_Deres Paolobon140 (talk) 19:28, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Paolobon140: The article have been totally rewritten, using solid and verificable sources. --Holapaco77 (talk) 12:51, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Zerai Deres/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Catrìona (talk · contribs) 23:20, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This article has significant issues which cause it to be far from meeting the GA standard at this time. Some of the statements (now flagged) have more citations than necessary, which impedes readability. The prose could use improvement, especially smoothing out the many one-sentence of very brief paragraphs into running prose. In addition, the language, in places, comes off as POV, such as "act of public devotion to an important symbol of his native country". The most significant issue is the many unreliable sources cited, such as an apparently nonexistent YouTube channel (refs 22 and 23), the comments section of an online newspaper (31), a blog (37), a self-published website (53), a Facebook page used to prove the existence of the page's owner (57), a broken self-published website (40), and a slideshare presentation (50). Comments are based on this version of the article. Catrìona (talk) 23:20, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]