Wikipedia:Peer review/BASIC programming language/archive1

BASIC programming language

This article is one of the most popular based on page views, it should become featured. - cohesion★talk 05:05, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

How do you check an article's page views? Scifiintel 13:49, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I scanned through this article with a few things in mind, they were all there and more. Seems to be a thorough, coherent, excellent article. One very slight thing - I wonder if all the versions of basic could be organized into some kind of summary, or heirarchical presentation, maybe even by release date. --RichG 12:45, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I rephrased some section titles. I had a minor quibble with their tone. Also, the lead needs expanding if this is going to be a featured article. Nicely referenced piece of work. - Mgm|^(talk) 20:51, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

- I too wish to know how you check an article's page views. --bodnotbod 15:39, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Very well written, but I suspect it could do with being read through by someone who knows nothing about programming to check how accessible it is. Here are a few things I spotted.

The intro needs to be much longer to get FA status - at least two paragraphs, preferably three.
Early years: would be better if it said what Fortran 77 and Algol 60 are. The footnotes at the end of the paragraph should really go in a notes section at the end of the article in accordance with WP:CITE: see WP:FN for a way of doing this.
Maturity: "Though it is somewhat difficult to consider this language to be BASIC" - say why.
Procedures and flow control: The term 'procedure' needs to be explained. I'd suggest wikifying the word, but the article procedure is a little surreal at the moment. A sentence would be plenty, just something to tell a non-programmer what it means.
BASIC dialects: "There are more dialects of BASIC than there are of any other programming language." - could do with a source being cited.

File:Yemen flag large.png CTOAGN (talk) 01:31, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Images are probably difficult to place in language articles. My main comment here is to find screenshots or photographs of early instances of BASIC programming, as early as possible, and original machines; and think of any more images to add, best I suggest is logos, software packaging, more screenshots. DVD+ R/W 11:36, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

For such a large article, the lead section needs reworking. Try summarising each level 1 heading in a paragraph is what I suggest. See Windows 2000 and MDAC for good examples of well worked leads (I didn't actually write the leads, someone did it for me and I wrote the rest of the article). - Ta bu shi da yu 13:28, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]