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Alpamysh, an ancient
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dastan, is one of the foremost examples of the
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The text was copied from an e-book found at this site. According to the copyright information from the site, this donated e-book is under copyright. -- Whpq 21:38, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
The article talks about its significance, but it doesn't say what the Alpamysh is. How about a summary of the plot, at least? David Bofinger 06:55, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
There's some good material here, but the article is not broad enough in its coverage for GA. See section 3 of " What is a good article?" for more details.
A couple of specific points:
The main problem, however, is that the article is insufficiently broad in its coverage. Take a look at Epic of King Gesar, just as an example of an article about a major epic. (It's not a GA and I'm not suggesting it should be; it's just a similar article.) There are separate discussions of cultural roots, performance, relation of the epic to reality, and the history of manuscripts and scholarly translations. Does the Alpamysh dastan get a lot of cultural references in present-day Turkic culture? Is it taught in schools? Have there been adaptations of the story to other media? I think the article needs to cover the cultural context, the historical transmission of the story and how it was captured in written form, and so on. The Trial of Alpamysh sounds interesting; how about a little more about that?
Some additional suggestions, which don't need to be addressed to meet GA:
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Alpamysh was a Language and literature good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. | ||||||||||
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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the "
Did you know?" column on
April 3, 2007. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that
Alpamysh, an ancient
Turkic
epic or
dastan, is one of the foremost examples of the
Turkic
oral literature of
Central Asia? |
This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The text was copied from an e-book found at this site. According to the copyright information from the site, this donated e-book is under copyright. -- Whpq 21:38, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
The article talks about its significance, but it doesn't say what the Alpamysh is. How about a summary of the plot, at least? David Bofinger 06:55, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
There's some good material here, but the article is not broad enough in its coverage for GA. See section 3 of " What is a good article?" for more details.
A couple of specific points:
The main problem, however, is that the article is insufficiently broad in its coverage. Take a look at Epic of King Gesar, just as an example of an article about a major epic. (It's not a GA and I'm not suggesting it should be; it's just a similar article.) There are separate discussions of cultural roots, performance, relation of the epic to reality, and the history of manuscripts and scholarly translations. Does the Alpamysh dastan get a lot of cultural references in present-day Turkic culture? Is it taught in schools? Have there been adaptations of the story to other media? I think the article needs to cover the cultural context, the historical transmission of the story and how it was captured in written form, and so on. The Trial of Alpamysh sounds interesting; how about a little more about that?
Some additional suggestions, which don't need to be addressed to meet GA: