This peer review discussion has been closed.
I want to see if article has problems before can make it good article status, thank you very much.
ITABRIZ (
talk)
21:22, 22 September 2009 (UTC)reply
I just deleted a duplicate peer review for this article, opened by a different nominator. The text left was as follows:
I've listed this article for peer review because we would like to take it to FAC in the near future. We'd rather deal with any doubts, questions, errors, or omissions here than at FAC, so additional feedback and recommendations are welcome.
Ruhrfisch comments: As requested, here are some suggestions for improvement. I think this needs a fair amount of work before it would be ready for FAC. Here are some suggestions for getting it there.
One of the biggest problems this needs to address before FAC is a lack of references in places - the are "citation needed" tags and as one example the last two sentences of the first paragraph in the Antiquity section and the whole second paragraph have no refs. There are also no refs in the whole last paragraph of Restoration of independence. My rule of thumb is that every quote, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref.
Many of the internet refs are just links. Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. {{cite web}} and other cite templates may be helpful. See
WP:CITE and
WP:V
Not sure if the refs used all meet
WP:RS - for example is the Encyclopaedia Britannica Online: History of Azerbaijan [5]. really the best possible ref for history here? In general encyclopedias are not favored refs.
The other major problem this would have at FAC in its current state is the language - the hardest of the
FA criteria for most articles to meet is a professional level of English. Examples follow
One fairly easy thing to fix is the large number of short (one or two sentence) paragraphs - to improve the article's flow these should be combined with others or perhaps expanded wherever expanded
For example the first sentence of the History section is The earliest evidence of human settlement in the territory of Azerbaijan dates to the late Stone Age and is related to the Guruchay culture of the Azykh Cave, where archeological evidences promoted the inclusion of Azerbaijan into the map of the ascent man sites of Europe.[18] "acent man sites of Europe" is not grammatical and I am frankly not sure what it means. Could it be something like The earliest evidence of human settlement in Azerbaijan dates to the late Stone Age and is related to the Guruchay culture of the Azykh Cave. not sure how to rewrite the rest as I am not sure of its meaning
Per
WP:MOS#Images, images should generally be set to thumb width to allow reader preferences to take over. For portrait format images, "upright" can be used to make the image narrower.
Watch overlinking -
Baku is linked about 6 times in the article, for example
I checked only one image
File:Transheya.jpg and it is Fair Use, but needs a fair use rationale to be included here - see
WP:FAIRUSE. I also doubt that it meets the criteria for inclusion here under
WP:NFCC
Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at
Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch peer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours,
Ruhrfisch><>°°23:32, 30 September 2009 (UTC)reply
The article needs a map in "Administrative divisions", depicting the divisions
The article needs reorganization of images, in many sections (like Antiquity,Middle Ages etc.
) the text is sandwiched between images. The image in Fauna shows no Fauna, but snow and ice.
I doubt the license of
File:Independence1990.jpg, it appears to a scan of a newspaper from the texture of the image.
Protection is a vague title. Rename. "Protection" of what?
IMO, History needs to shortened. There is too much detail in the last three sub-sections of History. They are clubbed together something like "Modern Era"
This peer review discussion has been closed.
I want to see if article has problems before can make it good article status, thank you very much.
ITABRIZ (
talk)
21:22, 22 September 2009 (UTC)reply
I just deleted a duplicate peer review for this article, opened by a different nominator. The text left was as follows:
I've listed this article for peer review because we would like to take it to FAC in the near future. We'd rather deal with any doubts, questions, errors, or omissions here than at FAC, so additional feedback and recommendations are welcome.
Ruhrfisch comments: As requested, here are some suggestions for improvement. I think this needs a fair amount of work before it would be ready for FAC. Here are some suggestions for getting it there.
One of the biggest problems this needs to address before FAC is a lack of references in places - the are "citation needed" tags and as one example the last two sentences of the first paragraph in the Antiquity section and the whole second paragraph have no refs. There are also no refs in the whole last paragraph of Restoration of independence. My rule of thumb is that every quote, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref.
Many of the internet refs are just links. Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. {{cite web}} and other cite templates may be helpful. See
WP:CITE and
WP:V
Not sure if the refs used all meet
WP:RS - for example is the Encyclopaedia Britannica Online: History of Azerbaijan [5]. really the best possible ref for history here? In general encyclopedias are not favored refs.
The other major problem this would have at FAC in its current state is the language - the hardest of the
FA criteria for most articles to meet is a professional level of English. Examples follow
One fairly easy thing to fix is the large number of short (one or two sentence) paragraphs - to improve the article's flow these should be combined with others or perhaps expanded wherever expanded
For example the first sentence of the History section is The earliest evidence of human settlement in the territory of Azerbaijan dates to the late Stone Age and is related to the Guruchay culture of the Azykh Cave, where archeological evidences promoted the inclusion of Azerbaijan into the map of the ascent man sites of Europe.[18] "acent man sites of Europe" is not grammatical and I am frankly not sure what it means. Could it be something like The earliest evidence of human settlement in Azerbaijan dates to the late Stone Age and is related to the Guruchay culture of the Azykh Cave. not sure how to rewrite the rest as I am not sure of its meaning
Per
WP:MOS#Images, images should generally be set to thumb width to allow reader preferences to take over. For portrait format images, "upright" can be used to make the image narrower.
Watch overlinking -
Baku is linked about 6 times in the article, for example
I checked only one image
File:Transheya.jpg and it is Fair Use, but needs a fair use rationale to be included here - see
WP:FAIRUSE. I also doubt that it meets the criteria for inclusion here under
WP:NFCC
Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at
Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch peer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours,
Ruhrfisch><>°°23:32, 30 September 2009 (UTC)reply
The article needs a map in "Administrative divisions", depicting the divisions
The article needs reorganization of images, in many sections (like Antiquity,Middle Ages etc.
) the text is sandwiched between images. The image in Fauna shows no Fauna, but snow and ice.
I doubt the license of
File:Independence1990.jpg, it appears to a scan of a newspaper from the texture of the image.
Protection is a vague title. Rename. "Protection" of what?
IMO, History needs to shortened. There is too much detail in the last three sub-sections of History. They are clubbed together something like "Modern Era"