Talk:Zuo Zhuan/GA1

GA Review

Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch

Reviewer: Khanate General (talk · contribs) 16:50, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

• I plan on reviewing this article soon.--Khanate General ☪ talk ^{project mongol conquests} 16:50, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Image review

• File:Li Yuanyang Zuo zhuan first page.png
  • The image should be categorized and tagged Template:PD-scan-100.
    • Fixed.  White Whirlwind  咨  21:43, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
• File:Zuo zhuan, Min Qiji edition, title page.png
  • The license tag needs to be changed. The {{self}} tag is for images that you are the sole creator of, e.g. a diagram that you drew yourself. A scan of an existing public domain work should be tagged {{PD-scan-100}}. Additionally, the source should be the book that the image was scanned from and the author should be the creator of the original work, not the uploader.
    • Fixed. The problem with those is that the Upload Wizard only allows CC tags to be chosen upon upload, it's a pain.  White Whirlwind  咨  21:43, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Close paraphrasing/copyvio review

• Earwig's Copyvio Detector reports that a copyright violation is unlikely.
• The article overuses turns of phrase quoted from the secondary sources. Quotations should be used for controversial opinions, technical/unusual terms coined by the author, or lines from primary sources. Quotes such as "official [and] restrained" and "tangled affections" could be rewritten in your own words.
  • @Khanate General: I mean, is this an WP:ENCYCLOPEDIC issue? I have tried to use direct quotes only when they're unusual or I felt they were the mots justes to describe the subject at hand.  White Whirlwind  咨  22:11, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
• Random spot checks for close paraphrasing:
  • Unlike the Histories of Herodotus or the History of the Peloponnesian War of Thucydides—with which it is roughly contemporary—the Zuo zhuan's narration always remains in the third person perspective, and presents as a dispassionate recorder of facts. (article)
  • The historian-narrator in Tso chuan is largely absent. In contrast to the roughly contemporary Greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides, who repeatedly enter their histories as a first-person “I” to explain the meaning of prose events or to comment upon the validity of variant accounts, the narrator of Tso chuan presents events in an ostensibly objective fashion that puts the narrative beyond question or qualification. (source)
    • No close paraphrasing detected.
  • Several of the most notable passages in the Zuo zhuan describe succession crises, which seem to have been fairly common in China during the Spring and Autumn period (article)
  • Another topic that recurs in several of the most famous sections of Tso chuan is that of the succession crisis. Such crises, which seem to have been frequent in Spring and Autumn China, usually involved the tangled affections of political leaders. (source)
    • No close paraphrasing detected.

Closed due to reviewer unresponsiveness

User:Khanate General became unresponsive and inactive on Wikipedia, so this review was closed and the article re-listed on the nominations page.  White Whirlwind  咨  18:38, 2 May 2016 (UTC)