Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Despacito/1
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- Result: Kept There are a few misconceptions that I should address first. There is actually no requirement for an editor to comment on each criteria. They have to assess it against each one, but we allow a lot of latitude in how they present this assessment. That includes referencing previous reviews. The table is a perfectly fine way to do this. Tbhotch is wrong in saying all citations have to be checked. FA doesn't even require this (or they didn't, they had a RFC recently and I am not up-to-date on their current position here). What GA requires is that citations are at least present for "direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons". I doubt many reviewers check all sources. It is simply not possible for some articles with foreign language or offline ones. I would hope all reviewers check for the statements covered above and at least spot check a few others. This is supposed to be a lightweight process and expecting someone to check 400+ sources is not lightweight. Saying that the review could have been carried out better. I view this project as a way for editors to improve their articles and passing is often just a means to the end. As such it is almost always helpful to offer some feedback on what could be improved. Others might see it differently though and that is fine. The bottom line here is that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the review and nothing has been presented here to suggest that the article fails the criteria (I checked the images and they have rational or licenses, although I feel the graphs are getting close to original research). As such this will be kept as a Good Article. Anyone is welcome to take it through an individual reassessment if they wish to give it a more in-depth review. AIRcorn (talk) 10:29, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
I think it would probably be a good idea for this article's GA status to be reassed based upon the discussion at User talk:Fhsig13#Despacito, in particular this comment left by Tbhotch. Although I believe the GA review was carried out in good faith, the statement I'm not going to check 400+ citations in depth, however the vast majority seemed to standard when I gave the list a once-over.
left by the reviewer for item 2b as well as the statement No copyright status given on most images.
given for item 6a since the version which was reviewed make it seem that the review was hastily carried out. There were only six files (three non-free ones and three Commons files) and checking their respective pages for their licensing shouldn't have been to difficult to do. Out of the seven parts of a GA review, it seems that making sure copyright files are properly licensed and being used correctly would be quite important. Finally, no reference was made to earlier failed GA review or how the issues raised therein were fixed; this makes me wonder whether the GA reviewer was aware of the previous review. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:01, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
- Comment -- Off a glance, I'm seeing no glaring issues that could not be quickly addressed. This is comprehensively written and has good enough prose quality. Though I agree that the GA review for this definitely looks rushed and its unlikely that there were absolutely no problems with an article this lengthy. I suggest having an experienced GA reviewer look this over and post their suggestions for improvement here. I'd even volunteer myself to address them in case the original nominator doesn't want to. If that happens I'd support not delisting. Regards.--NØ 15:42, 14 January 2019 (UTC)