Wikipedia:Peer review/Colombo/archive1

Colombo

This article has been changed significantly reasontly, I have strucutred the article after Seattle, Washington featured article. Needs to be peer reviewed. I want to know

whether it covers all the required sections?
Anything else that needs to be included?
Does it have enough images?
I have some great 19th century historcal images would it be too much?
I think grammar could be improved, could you help?

Thanks «₪Mÿš†íc₪» ^(T) 15:02, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please see automated peer review suggestions here. Thanks, Andy _t 15:20, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It can be improved by reducing links to solitary years. A monobook tool allows this to be done with one click on a 'dates' tab in edit mode. You can then accept or reject the changes offered and/or do more editing before pressing 'Save'. Simply copy the entire contents of User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to your own monobook. Then follow the instructions in your monobook to clear the cache (i.e. press Ctrl-Shift-R in Firefox, or Ctrl-F5 in IE) before it will work. Hope that helps. bobblewik 19:28, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New Peer review request
After the last peer review it seems this article has changed drastically what else could be improved to make it to he featured article status? Please respond ŇëŧΜǒńğëŗ^Talk 10:49, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps the old peer review should be archived (see instructions above, though it might require admin tools now)? Then again, it would not really be that necessary. APR _t 21:23, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For featured article status, the article will need a lot more footnotes (nowadays, the bar seems to be at least 15, depending upon the subject of the article). Naturally, print references would be preferred.
- Undoubtedly the most popular sport in Sri Lanka is cricket. Undoubtedly a footnote would be necessary.
- Numbers generally need citations, like in "Geography and climate".
I would suggest expanding the two paragraphs of the WP:LEAD, neither of which extends beyond 2 sentences. In fact, they pretty much can be combined, and a separate paragraph can summarize other topics below.
"Official Vision and mission" is a stub section. Remove the two subheadings, unless you plan on expanding them. WP:MSH suggests that 'Vision' -> 'vision'. Btw, both quotes need citations.
Needs a spell-check: meanining, coast line, liase (?), south east, North-East, jewellery
Some odd comma usage which hampers readability. The north and the south parts of the city are hilly and the east, and south east areas are bordered by marshy land.
See WP:DASH; replace hyphens indicate ranges w/ endashes. (ex: March – April)
MOS:NUM : Missing conversions b/w the metric and US systems and   (non-breaking spaces). See Rainfall in the city averages around 2,400 mm a year.
Mistakes and typos regarding the position of the footnote in terms of the period. It should follow the period, w/o a space (not [1] . or .[2].). User:Gimmetrow's User:Gimmetrow/fixRefs.js fixes this w/ a click (it is also included in the PR script).
There are scattered grammatical problems.
- Sri Lankan masterpieces at the Art Gallery wrong preposition
- for two of the country's international cricket stadiums, Sinhalese Sports Club The club is not a stadium.
See WP:LAYOUT about the last couple of sections.
My overall suggestion would be to start by first resolving the simpler style problems (WP:MOS, WP:GTL), and then increasing the level of content (as there are several stubby sections, and the WP:LEAD is skimpy) while carefully citing sources. Finally work on fixing the grammar and making the prose brilliant. Best of luck, APR _t 22:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In addition to the suggestions mentioned above, I would suggest expanding the history section. The Dutch and British eras are somewhat sparse, and don't really provide that much information that someone who is completely unfamiliar with the history of Colombo, like me, would benefit from reading. Oaxaca dan 04:30, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]