Plenty of sources have been added and it hasn't been touched in a while. I would like to know what other changes might be needed to reach GA and eventually FA status.
GrandMasterGalvatron17:11, 1 February 2007 (UTC)reply
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Plenty of sources have been added and it hasn't been touched in a while. I would like to know what other changes might be needed to reach GA and eventually FA status.
GrandMasterGalvatron17:11, 1 February 2007 (UTC)reply
The following suggestions were generated by a semi-automatic
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Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at
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WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.[?]
Generally, trivia sections are looked down upon; please either remove the trivia section or incorporate any important facts into the rest of the article.[?]
Watch for
redundancies that make the article too wordy instead of being crisp and concise. (You may wish to try Tony1's
redundancy exercises.)
While additive terms like “also”, “in addition”, “additionally”, “moreover”, and “furthermore” may sometimes be useful, overusing them when they aren't necessary can instead detract from the brilliancy of the article. This article has 40 additive terms, a bit too much.
Vague terms of size often are unnecessary and redundant - “some”, “a variety/number/majority of”, “several”, “a few”, “many”, “any”, and “all”. For example, “All pigs are pink, so we thought of a number of ways to turn them green.”
Avoid using contractions like (outside of quotations): couldn't.
As done in
WP:FOOTNOTE, footnotes usually are located right after a punctuation mark (as recommended by the
CMS, but not mandatory), such that there is no space in between. For example, the sun is larger than the moon [2]. is usually written as the sun is larger than the moon.[2][?]