A fact from Boerehaat appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 February 2015 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that during the apartheid era, South Africa's
National Party won a by-election in Oudtshoorn after waging a "Boerehaat campaign"?
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Per
WP:LEAD, I would de-bold the phrases "The term Boerehater (English: Boer-hater or Boer hater) if they're not relating to the actual name
The lead could also be expanded a little in order to summarise the article better. I think that by creating another small paragraph ellaborating on the name's origin and history could easily be accomplished by moving content around the Etymology and origin section
"British public for British imperialism and the Second Boer War.[1][5]:34[6][7]" - there's some kind of typo or error there? And also should those citations be more evenly spread to source everything in the paragraph?
"the apartheid era.[5]:33–34[13]" - I have never seen this before, upon reading it again it makes me think if this is some sort of page number?
"Animosity between the British and the Boers intensified in the run-up to the Second Boer War" - link
Second Boer War for reference?
""the historical friction between the 'English- and Afrikaans-speaking" - that hyphen could be removed
"In 1973 Edward Feit, then a professor of political science at the University of Michigan" - would read better as just {{xt|In 1973 Edward Feit, professor of political science at the University of Michigan"
"The National Party, under the leadership of B. J. Vorster" - whose National Party? Can it be linked?
"The Nationalists also used the term to censure members" - who are the Nationalists?
I would merge the top two sentences in the Post-apartheid era section to create better flow
References
No dead links, but ref 15 requires a subscription (this shouldn't affect a GAN though)
On hold
This is a neat, compact article, worthy of becoming GA in my opinion. The only thing that stands in the way at the moment is that the lead could summarise the article better (to reach the GA criteria it has to act as a sort of "mini article") and also some minor prose issues that could be addressed. I'll put this on hold for the standard seven days and will see what happens. Thanks! ☯Jaguar☯ 12:24, 6 January 2015 (UTC)reply
Thanks for your review
Jaguar. I use
Template:Rp to specify pages when referencing different pages in a source, it is not a typo. Please let me know if you are happy with the changes I have made.
HelenOnline 21:41, 6 January 2015 (UTC)reply
Close - promoted
Thank you for your quick response, upon looking at the changes made this article now meets the GA criteria. Promoting ☯Jaguar☯ 16:31, 7 January 2015 (UTC)reply
Videos like
Kill the Whites by
angrysouthafrican2 and the website
Genocide Watch are not
reliable sources by Wikipedia standards and are not directly relevant to the term Boerehaat. This article is not about the alleged persecution of white South Africans per se but about the term Boerehaat.
Per
Template:COI, "Like the other neutrality-related tags, if you place this tag, you should promptly start a discussion on the article's talk page to explain what is non-neutral about the article. If you do not start this discussion, then any editor is justified in removing the tag without warning." There has been no such discussion. Furthermore, this article passed a
GA review which covered neutrality among other things.
A fact from Boerehaat appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 February 2015 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that during the apartheid era, South Africa's
National Party won a by-election in Oudtshoorn after waging a "Boerehaat campaign"?
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Per
WP:LEAD, I would de-bold the phrases "The term Boerehater (English: Boer-hater or Boer hater) if they're not relating to the actual name
The lead could also be expanded a little in order to summarise the article better. I think that by creating another small paragraph ellaborating on the name's origin and history could easily be accomplished by moving content around the Etymology and origin section
"British public for British imperialism and the Second Boer War.[1][5]:34[6][7]" - there's some kind of typo or error there? And also should those citations be more evenly spread to source everything in the paragraph?
"the apartheid era.[5]:33–34[13]" - I have never seen this before, upon reading it again it makes me think if this is some sort of page number?
"Animosity between the British and the Boers intensified in the run-up to the Second Boer War" - link
Second Boer War for reference?
""the historical friction between the 'English- and Afrikaans-speaking" - that hyphen could be removed
"In 1973 Edward Feit, then a professor of political science at the University of Michigan" - would read better as just {{xt|In 1973 Edward Feit, professor of political science at the University of Michigan"
"The National Party, under the leadership of B. J. Vorster" - whose National Party? Can it be linked?
"The Nationalists also used the term to censure members" - who are the Nationalists?
I would merge the top two sentences in the Post-apartheid era section to create better flow
References
No dead links, but ref 15 requires a subscription (this shouldn't affect a GAN though)
On hold
This is a neat, compact article, worthy of becoming GA in my opinion. The only thing that stands in the way at the moment is that the lead could summarise the article better (to reach the GA criteria it has to act as a sort of "mini article") and also some minor prose issues that could be addressed. I'll put this on hold for the standard seven days and will see what happens. Thanks! ☯Jaguar☯ 12:24, 6 January 2015 (UTC)reply
Thanks for your review
Jaguar. I use
Template:Rp to specify pages when referencing different pages in a source, it is not a typo. Please let me know if you are happy with the changes I have made.
HelenOnline 21:41, 6 January 2015 (UTC)reply
Close - promoted
Thank you for your quick response, upon looking at the changes made this article now meets the GA criteria. Promoting ☯Jaguar☯ 16:31, 7 January 2015 (UTC)reply
Videos like
Kill the Whites by
angrysouthafrican2 and the website
Genocide Watch are not
reliable sources by Wikipedia standards and are not directly relevant to the term Boerehaat. This article is not about the alleged persecution of white South Africans per se but about the term Boerehaat.
Per
Template:COI, "Like the other neutrality-related tags, if you place this tag, you should promptly start a discussion on the article's talk page to explain what is non-neutral about the article. If you do not start this discussion, then any editor is justified in removing the tag without warning." There has been no such discussion. Furthermore, this article passed a
GA review which covered neutrality among other things.