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Check out Talk:Newfoundland National Convention#Requested merge. - Royalguard11( Talk· Desk) 03:49, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Moot point, title will probably go with the merge, but should be 'referenda' not referendums. Ex nihil 05:40, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Enh, I think that's debatable - "Referenda" is one of those Latin plurals that appears to be on it's way out in Canadian English. I would argue that it's about 50/50 in current usage AshleyMorton 01:28, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
This is a promising article. It is well-cited, appears to be broad in coverage and NPOV, and uses tagged images with a clear fair use rationale. However, it fails to live up to criterion 1a, that of "compelling prose". Most of the sentences in the article are very short and unvaried in style. Generally, the prose reads a bit too monotonously, as if it was written at an intentionally low reading level.
The background section could also use some expansion, explaining directly what is meant in this context by "local representative government" and "responsible government".
With a bit of improvement in the prose, I'm sure that this article will pass. Please do resubmit it. MLilburne 12:12, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
There has been good additions since the failed nomination but all of the points raised in the Failed GA comments above still need work and need to be addressed before promotion. I get the feeling little effort was made to address those comments. All the positive points raised in the last round still hold true.
I failed it for reasons of prose. Please read the comments in both nominations. Peter Rehse 00:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Changed my mind - took me a lttle while but I think I fixed the prose up sufficiantly. Peter Rehse 05:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
The English in this article needs to be checked, the text is filled with errors. At the moment, I find it surprising to see a good article nomination for an article so poorly written. JdeJ 01:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Well actually its borderline and the author could fix it up with a little effort. I put the article Microsoft word grammer check. There were a small number of spelling mistakes but more telling the number of passive sentences was high at 27% as was the correlated Flesch Reading Ease index at 32.4 (the lower the better and I think it should be 2/3 that). The Flesch-Kinkaid Grade Level was 12. I failed the article because no effort was made to address the issue. Peter Rehse 04:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
What the hell I did a copyedit using MS-word grammer check and a bit of common sense. I'm going to promote to GA status. Peter Rehse 05:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
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Check out Talk:Newfoundland National Convention#Requested merge. - Royalguard11( Talk· Desk) 03:49, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Moot point, title will probably go with the merge, but should be 'referenda' not referendums. Ex nihil 05:40, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Enh, I think that's debatable - "Referenda" is one of those Latin plurals that appears to be on it's way out in Canadian English. I would argue that it's about 50/50 in current usage AshleyMorton 01:28, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
This is a promising article. It is well-cited, appears to be broad in coverage and NPOV, and uses tagged images with a clear fair use rationale. However, it fails to live up to criterion 1a, that of "compelling prose". Most of the sentences in the article are very short and unvaried in style. Generally, the prose reads a bit too monotonously, as if it was written at an intentionally low reading level.
The background section could also use some expansion, explaining directly what is meant in this context by "local representative government" and "responsible government".
With a bit of improvement in the prose, I'm sure that this article will pass. Please do resubmit it. MLilburne 12:12, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
There has been good additions since the failed nomination but all of the points raised in the Failed GA comments above still need work and need to be addressed before promotion. I get the feeling little effort was made to address those comments. All the positive points raised in the last round still hold true.
I failed it for reasons of prose. Please read the comments in both nominations. Peter Rehse 00:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Changed my mind - took me a lttle while but I think I fixed the prose up sufficiantly. Peter Rehse 05:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
The English in this article needs to be checked, the text is filled with errors. At the moment, I find it surprising to see a good article nomination for an article so poorly written. JdeJ 01:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Well actually its borderline and the author could fix it up with a little effort. I put the article Microsoft word grammer check. There were a small number of spelling mistakes but more telling the number of passive sentences was high at 27% as was the correlated Flesch Reading Ease index at 32.4 (the lower the better and I think it should be 2/3 that). The Flesch-Kinkaid Grade Level was 12. I failed the article because no effort was made to address the issue. Peter Rehse 04:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
What the hell I did a copyedit using MS-word grammer check and a bit of common sense. I'm going to promote to GA status. Peter Rehse 05:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria. I'm specifically going over all of the "World History-Americas" articles. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have made several minor corrections throughout the article and expanded the lead (although it could be expanded further). Continue to improve the article making sure all new information is properly sourced and neutral. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I have updated the article history to reflect this review. -- Nehrams2020 ( talk) 07:50, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
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