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Tibet

This article is in such a miserable bad shape that it is an embarrassment for Wikipedia. Please, someone needs to review and create a more neutral article. The admins there are clearly blinded by some political or chauvinistic idea and delete without any debate. -me —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.73.69.5 ( talk • contribs) 15:53, 29 June 2006 UTC.

I'll take a look at it. It helps if you have some specific issues, or if you can point to one of the qualifications for GA status that you think is being violated. If there is an edit war of some sort going on, you'll need to work it out with the editors (while refraining from these sorts of personal attacks) or take it to arbitration, or the mediation cabal. Phidauex 21:11, 29 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Soylent Green

There are no references what so ever. Also, the article only contains a plot summary, trivia, and a small paragraph on the cultural impact. If this is all it takes to make a good article then the Clerks. page i've been working on should also be a good article. Andman8 20:50, 28 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Delisted I'm not sure what the guidelines are for the plot summaries, probably no references are necessery, but there are other things that need references on that article - for instance the cultural impact and the trivia sections.-- Konstable 23:59, 28 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Apple Computer

At the very least large parts of article are completely unreferenced and possibly filled with original research (Requirement 2 of a GA) - we've actually agreed to tag some parts with the original research warning tag then note all the sentences that need references. Suggest delisting for now. RN 18:42, 28 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Delisted I agree.-- Konstable 13:19, 2 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Ethiopia

The Politics section of this article is biased on the current regime and completely overlooks how totalitarian the government can be. I am Ethiopian and live in Ethiopia, and have experienced this. The government did rig the elections--for example, in rural areas they would turn off the electricity so no one could see, and then take the ballot box in use and replace it with a ballot box full of votes for them. Even so, they lost 100% of the capital to the Opposition and most of the country. The protests were because the government claimed they had won, and the article makes it seem as if the protesters blew themselves up when really the government sent out the police to shoot them--how many nongovernment people in this country would have guns? The government are the ones with the ammo. If you need any more proof of how tyrannical they can be: The Prime Minister once said, in a nationallly televised speech, that if he saw anyone putting up their index and middle fingers (the "peace" sign, symbol of the Opposition) he would cut their fingers off. It was an empty threat, but it is additional proof of how totalitarian they can be. Also note that the "National Election Board" were handpicked by Meles Zenawi himself. Ana Gomez, a representative of the European Union, was the only one who complained that the elections were fraudulent and is lauded throughout the country because of this. Other inspectors hardly ventured out from the capital, which was the only place where elections were halfway fair. I know I lack sources and I apologize for that, but please try to make this article see both sides of the situation.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.55.69.122 ( talk • contribs)

Your concerns seem....very serious. I would agree upon reading the politics section that there does appear to be a slight bias against the protestors, there is no qualification of who got killed in the riots and why, and there doesn't appear to be any specifics on exactly what these "detention camps" were. Furthermore, in the sports section, it seems to have a strong POV in favor of Ethiopia, I mean look at the adjectives :/. In the intro, we have "It has one of the most extensive known histories as an independent nation on the continent, or indeed in the world.", which is uncited and seems entirely subjective. The second part of the first paragraph also seems to fail WP:LEAD, it doesn't appear to help summarize the article because the article does not concentrate on the Axis's control over Ethiopia. The Book of Axum sounds like either a pseudographical work from the looks of it or some sort of history thing, it sounds like just the kind of thing which deserves an article, yet it doesn't have one? :/ Many parts of the history section also read like a drama to me, while interesting, it doesn't seem very Wiki-esque. I don't think I would of passed this article. Homestarmy 15:51, 27 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the acknowledgment...but the Axis DIDN'T have control over Ethiopia. We pride ourselves on the fact that we were never colonized.

Mega Man X and Zero

When checking the sources for the article it is found that most are unavailable, incorrect, not in English (thereby highly unverifiable) or vague (leads to a site in general, but not the information pretaining to the article.)Also, some of the information is faulty Zero X Marquis 20:43, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Two experienced editors commented on this on the talkpage, and while one thought that the prose was not ample enough to provide an ignorant reader a basis of the material, the other thought it was amply justified after the rewrite and introduction. Homestarmy ( talk · contribs · logs), an editor with well over a thousand edits and broad range of GA participation, had previously reviewed the article and endorsed the request to promote it. In the circumstances, to contest with the reasoning of a fictional character against provided the argument of indirect links is a strawman. Its common knowledge various websites such as gamefaqs cannot be linked to. To claim a misrepresentation of these facts is a outrageous act. - Zero ^Talk 21:06, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Nevertheless, some of the information cited is faulty as is and should be removed. There are proper sources that can be used to as citation, however, the writers of the page neglected to do so, and opted to use sources that were non-existent and claimed to recall them by memory. Zero X Marquis 21:17, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Can you specify some of the information your talking about? Im no expert on the subject of either of these game characters, so when I reviewed Zero, I didn't really pick up on anything obvious that I knew would be wrong. Homestarmy 21:27, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Um, kay. Here are a few that pop out via a quick skim: "To this end, he fights to make up for his past." - Zero's motivation for fighting isn't explictly stated. This is interpretation.

"Zero, like many other reploids, has super strength. He can lift in excess of 3200 kg. (7040 lbs or over 3.5 tons" - Even if this were true, the source doesn't have it claim this, and in talks with the staff of the site, they disagree with the statement.

"(This has lead to a belief that originally Zero was simply a more powerful version of Bass that was loyal to Wily.) " - This is pure speculation, and should not be included (at least in the section that it is)

"It is not mentioned what happened to Bass, Wily, Mega Man or any of the other characters after Zero was released." - Sentence is too vague; Zero was released after X, this sentence implies that Zero was released upon the Earth before being sealed in a capsule, which is not the case (and if it is, citation would be needed)

"Zero probably knew that Colonel and General didn't have bad intentions, but the Hunters had ordered their disposal. While X felt guilty about having to take down these innocents, Zero did it for the mission. To his friends, though, Zero is friendly and self-sacrificing." - The move from probable to definate is inappropriate - as well, the former claim is speculation.

Almost all of those can easily be corrected, but any corrections made to the article are quickly reverted. The article also needs to be tightened up; it is plagued with redudant statements. Again, this too can easily be corrected, but again, such corrections would be reverted. The biggest problems are the references to the sources. They are sourcing general sites, which themselves are unvalidated. The information derived from the manuals is on par, but the quasi-facts taken from sources that either don't exist or are in Japanese meant to provide information for Rockman X (which are slightly different things), need to be fixed. Zero X Marquis 22:32, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Alone i'd say these problems aren't that bad for such a large article, but who exactly is reverting you, do they have any evidence against your ideas here or are they just blindly reverting? Homestarmy 22:40, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

I apologize to Zero X Marquis per his post above. According to his notes on the talkpage, his qualms on the article were on a different vein entriely. I won't comprimise on the sources and citations. Absolutely no bargaining on that. However, the slight rewrites of prose concerning the capsule release and the Bass upgrade merit investigation. - Zero ^Talk 22:51, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Looking at the history for the Zero article specifically, I think the reversion may of been motivated because there was a change to some wording not involved here which was a bit odd. If you could try to talk to this editor who reverted you on the issue and they end up not responding, i'd call that a content dispute, which would warrent delisting. Homestarmy 22:55, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

It would have to be a long and extended period of revisions for that to apply enough and qualify as sufficient for de-listing. There's a discussion in progress now, which is always a good thing. - Zero ^Talk 23:06, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Eh, I suppose so. What i'd like to know is, with all these problems put together, taking into account the long length of the article, are they sufficient to warrent it to be delisted? Homestarmy 23:23, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

See my explanation below:

I have taken Zero X Marquis's explanations into account and made the edits myself [1]:

• "To this end, he fights to make up for his past."

Removed that one.

• Zero, like many other reploids, has super strength. He can lift in excess of 3200 kg. (7040 lbs or over 3.5 tons

This was sourced from Gamefaqs, I recall, not Megaman Network. I haven't changed this, but it would be plausible to replace it with a line similar to "Zero posesses super strength well above that of a normal human and can lift in the proximity of several thousand pounds, although the exact weight is never precisely clear".

• "(This has lead to a belief that originally Zero was simply a more powerful version of Bass that was loyal to Wily.) "

Removed that one.

• "It is not mentioned what happened to Bass, Wily, Mega Man or any of the other characters after Zero was released."

I've left that one. It of course vague. No one is certain of the fate of the original Mega Man and the rest of the gang during that timeframe. Its unknown if Zero retired them or whatnot.

• "Zero probably knew that Colonel and General didn't have bad intentions, but the Hunters had ordered their disposal. While X felt guilty about having to take down these innocents, Zero did it for the mission. To his friends, though, Zero is friendly and self-sacrificing."

Left that one too. To state the thought on Colonel ethier way is an assumption. Its best to be neutral at wikipedia and leave that intrepretion to the reader. - Zero ^Talk 23:29, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

iTunes

This article is lacking references for many sections, and comprises of numerous fair use images. Also it lacks a history section. Computerjoe 's talk 19:59, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

One picture at the bottom seems to have a contradictory fair use thing, (Both "Public domain" and licensed) but if it really needs a history section, thats not very broad, I would say it should probably be delisted if you feel strongly enough about it. Homestarmy 20:34, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Globalization

This article seems somewhat skewed towards an anti-globalist stance. It gives very little information about the potential positives of globalization. MisterCheese 05:56, 17 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Is the table of contents supposed to be way down there? If so, then the intro is waaaaaaaay too long, would fail MoS :/. Homestarmy 03:45, 19 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Ok, it seems the intro has been heavily altered, do you still find POV errors? Homestarmy 12:44, 26 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Neo-Mitochondrial Creatures

Per the failing comment under Talk:Neo-Mitochondrial Creatures#FailedGA, I have reviewed this article and attempted to comprehend the failings presented. Unlike Zero (Mega Man) which recieved similar advice, I cannot comprehend how this doesn't explain to the reader what the creatures are and what they do. The galleries are a bit of a quibble, but I strongly suscribe to the way in which they are used rather than the fact they are used is looked down upon. Additonally, images are marked with a fair use rationale summary as appropriate. I'm under the impression this is a Good Article and reviewing the criteria should be included. Comments..? - Zero ^Talk 16:34, 12 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Comment: I have to say I agree with some of the comments that were given for failing the nomination.

• Some parts are written like they are intended for people who are experienced in the game already, for people like me who have never even heard of this game, some parts can be confusing. This is an encyclopedia so it should not be the case. I think this example was already used by TheGrappler, but I will post it here again: Neo Mitochondrial Creatures were first created soon after Melissa Pearce's transformation to Mitochondria Eve. After escaping from Aya Brea and causing everyone in an Opera theater to ignite in flames... - this sort of leaves you with a what?, who?.
• You are describing their fictional universe, which would probably be fine for a book, but this is a video game. You should also include some information on the gameplay aspects that these creatures bring to the game. Maybe discuss how prominent they are in the game. I can't get these details from your article.
• You did not mention who created their story. Which studio? Who were the scriptwriters, anyone famous for other works maybe?

I think TheGrappler's suggested links have some relavency to your article, I suggest you have a look. But otherwise, I agree that it is a well written article.-- Konstable 01:16, 14 June 2006 (UTC) reply

I'm confused on this matter due to my perception as the editor that wrote the article. Perhaps someone else could rewrite and ammend this as I do not see the problem. - Zero ^Talk 23:12, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Hubbert peak theory

The article is about both a general "theory", that petroleum exploitation will reach a peak and then decrease, and an alleged mathematical model attributed to Hubbert. My criticism concerns the presentation of the latter.

The mathematical model the article refers to appears not to exist. Its assumptions and derivation are not only not included in the article, it seems impossible to find them from the references and verify them, too.

The article, as far as it is about a mathematical theory, violates WP:RS, WP:V, and includes claims that I must, having reviewed what freely available evidence I could find, consider dubious at best.

I have attempted discussion on the talk page; I asked editors who believe the article still satisfies the good article critera to come forward, but no one has.

RandomP 00:25, 8 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Delist I have spent considerable time reviewing the article and the whole discussion about it, if this was nominated for GA in its curremt form the only reason that would stop GA is stability due to an ongoing edit war which you are a part of. RandomP I think you raise intersting questions about the theory, those question challenge the validity of the theory. The article covers the theory and its critisms, your concerns about the use of the theory in practise appear valid. I believe it doesnt violate WP:RS or WP:V and that you have not seperated the article about the theory from the practical use of the theory. What I suggest given your knowledge is that you put effort into writing a more comprehensive critism section of the theory and its failure in practical use. Dont forget to include sources so that when others come here to learn about the theory they are able to understand its short comings, and challenge conclusions from using it. I also suggest that you should participate in the mediation being requested by other editors. Ultimately your views though valid on the theory arent going to be included without co-operation of all parties. Gnangarra 11:25, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Banana

It is stated under the 'Popular culture' section of this article that ingesting bananas cannot increase levels of serotonin in the blood. However, R. Xiao et al (1998) "On the accurate measurement of serotonin in whole blood" Scand. J. Clin. Lab. Invest. 58: 505-510 find that "single and repeated ingestion of bananas, which are rich in 5-HT(serotonin), elevated 5-HT in whole blood, indicating dietary influences on platelet 5-HT". I suggest that the article is updated accordingly.

• You seem to be the one that knows all of this, why aren't you updating it? -- SeizureDog 00:55, 3 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Japanese war crimes

Many of the atrocities reported under this article have not been charged as war crimes nor scrutinised lawfully to determine as such. The article is deceptive in that, all atrocities reported are layed to appear prima facie as war crimes to lay persons without providing reference. An example includes the exploitation and causing reckless deaths to subjects of Korea and Taiwan without reference to their sovereignty status from no source at all. Therefore I cannot see how all this dubious composition or merely the title 'war crimes' itself could warrant the tag any longer unless it is quickly reviewed and affirmed that each reported incident is supported by atleast an implied legal scruitny and not from emotive corruptions of the word 'criminal' to express one's abhorrence of the incident.

I know one other user who would appear sympathetic, if not subscribing to my views. Philip Baird Shearer who frequently reviews the Japanese war crimes article in discussion and who proactively edits of the Allied war crimes article in order to preserve the true definition and principles of war crimes as established by war tribunal case law,international treaties and ICJ judgments. He would also suggess his unsatisfaction of the former article in the Allied War Crimes discussion page:

It's obvious that a catasrophic loss of human lives like the A-bomb should be in here. It should be noted that German and Japan war crimes articles contain un-charged atrocities under the tutelage of war crimes. I wonder if the double standard should prevail any further. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.109.211.80 ( talk • contribs) 19:36, 30 May 2006 (UTC) reply

His reply:

:This is an article on Allied war crimes, not Allied atricities. Which list of German war crimes are you referring to? I agree that the Japanese war crimes article needs a lot of work (you will find some of my comments on the talk page). I have spent a lot of time editing the List of war crimes putting in references and asking citations for those without references. Are you realy suggesting that this article should be degraded to to match the Japanese war crimes article. Would it not be better to alter the other articles to the same standard as this one? -- Philip Baird Shearer 23:32, 30 May 2006 (UTC) reply

In my opinion the article should be re-named to include a legally neutral term such as 'atrocities' and the illegal nature of the Japanese exercise of dominium over Korea and Taiwan be proven in order to preserve the 'good article' status.

203.109.211.80 16:38, 31 May 2006 (UTC) reply

"Atrocities" or "Crimes" if the only difference is the legal status, then many other articles refering to the word crime or criminal should be in dispute. Legality for who, and which government? The fact that some of the events are not charged legally in a tribunal does not excuse the event as non-criminal. It is clear that these event occured and are criminal in nature. A narrow definition or use of the word "Crime" would be of grave injustice. The tile should stay as is, as crime would be the most commonly used term to describe these incidents.

Hd8888 15:47, 22 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Ayn Rand

There's an ongoing dispute here (as well as in other Rand-related articles) over whether or not this article is POV. Constant work is being done to fix this, but much is left to be done. Very little is said of literary critique or philosophic critique, which is POV (Rand and her followers were opposed to both, though both do exist). Also, the less flattering details of Rand's affair with Branden are left out (again, more POV). -- LGagnon 15:34, 27 May 2006 (UTC) reply

I see several suspicious discussions on the talk page about anti-objectivist content being deleted which is "Well referenced", can you please provide an example or 2 or perhaps diffs showing the dispute? I only ask because there doesn't appear to be any specific claims on the talk page with references at the moment. Homestarmy 16:27, 27 May 2006 (UTC) reply

That content was in an article called "Ayn Rand cult" (a supplimental article to the Rand one), which was deleted for having a POV name but did not contain POV info at the time it was deleted. At that time, it had been changed to a well-sourced article, but was deleted anyways on the basis of previous objections to the previous status of the article and its name. Info from it could have been moved to the Rand article, but the article was deleted before that could be done. Thus, I can't give you the diffs because those were deleted along with the article. -- LGagnon 20:17, 27 May 2006 (UTC) reply

But did you ever try to insert the content into the actual Ayn Rand article at some point? Homestarmy 17:30, 28 May 2006 (UTC) reply

Some of it made its way over; I wasn't able to get all of it before the article was deleted. On a related note, there is now a controversy on Talk:Objectivist philosophy over whether or not Objectivism is a real philosophy. That alone makes the NPOV status of Rand's article questionable; if a consensus is made that it can not be considered a philosophy, then this article is definitely POV. -- LGagnon 17:10, 1 June 2006 (UTC) reply

I'd really need to see the diffs there to figure out whether legitimate content is being delorted :/. But if the Objectivist thing changes, i'd call that a factual innacuracy as opposed to a POV, I wouldn't delist it unless editors refuse to keep things consistant with whatever consensus forms. Homestarmy 02:33, 7 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Perl

Perl is no longer a good article because it no longer complies with criteria 4 (neutral point of view) and 5 (stability). There's a custom made POV template in the Opinion section, unless that was reverted. My first POV template at the top of the article was reverted, along with several other of my edits. Four items were reverted from the Con section of the Opinion section. My removal of the good article template was reverted ( [2] ). -Barry- 09:21, 23 May 2006 (UTC) reply

You can see from the talk page that all the stability and POV problems are because of user who requested. -- RevRagnarok 12:09, 23 May 2006 (UTC) reply

Here's some detail about the POV problem. Much of the problem comes from this revision. There's discussion about it here. The other editors keep making lame excuses and want it all gone, and to make matters worse, my POV template keeps getting reverted, so readers won't know that there are several pieces of information that they're not getting. It's insane for this to happen in a Con section, in which you'd expect negative points of view would be allowed.

I had allowed this reversion without a peep, as well as this reversion. I want both of those back now too. All together, just for the Con section, that's a heck of a lot of information.

And then there's the Benchmarks section reversion, and the other bias and the vandalism, and the continued revert war despite an administrator's warning (though that time a Perl vandal vandalized a different article), and the reinsertion of the Perl vandalism by biased Perl author Scarpia AKA Brian D Foy, etc. -Barry- 13:02, 23 May 2006 (UTC) reply

Yes, "Negative points of view" are allowed, provided they are on-topic, rational, and at least semi-encyclopedic. One can critique, but "con section" doesn't mean "editor POV is okay".

The edit comments in the removals of those two additions seem quite reasonable. The second one's especially ("The author notes in his essay that he had been drinking while writing it, and makes many outlandish and unverifiable claims about Perl and persoanl attacks on author Larry Wall")...wow, harder to imagine a less encyclopedic material source than that.

I don't recall any evidence, except your assertion, that Scarpia==brian d foy. It appears a major objection to your edits is that they are often based on poorly- or non-supported assertions. DMacks 15:05, 23 May 2006 (UTC) reply

Overall, I agree with RevRagnarok...nom, who is self-avowedly anti-perl, has persisted in re-adding material that many other editors keep removing, typically without answering their valid (IMO, or at least objectively valid-sounding) concerns about it. DMacks 15:05, 23 May 2006 (UTC) reply

Also, note that as the bone of contention has been between literally every other editor to comment (actually, I think there was one exception, but it was hard to tell, as the editor in question was agreeing with me, but I think they thought I was agreeing with -Barry-), and User:-Barry-, no true consensus can be reached at this juncture. This is why the current Mediation Cabal entry is probably the only way that we're going to be able to resolve this; restore the Perl article to the Good Article state and status that it was in pre-Barry-; and move on. PS: I know I've probably done a half dozen things wrong in this whole process. It's hard to deal with someone as prolific (in terms of edit rate, anyway) as -Barry- while trying to figure out all of the policy changes that have happened in the year since I had a dispute that warranted outside help. This is why I've never asked for admin status. - Harmil 04:10, 24 May 2006 (UTC) reply

Agreed, its time to move back to the pre- -Barry- state of the page and move on. The edits by -Barry- injected POV into the page and revisions were made to move the Perl entry back towards the way is before -Barry-'s POV was added. Steve p 12:16, 24 May 2006 (UTC) reply

This has been in mediation here and it's no longer simply a matter of me against that handful of editors. The editors are at odds with the mediator too. If Perl can remain listed as a "good article" then the good article criteria page is apparently ignored and the good article lists are misleading. There needs to be some kind of enforcement by administrators or some other entity, or there should be no good article list at all. -Barry- 13:54, 30 May 2006 (UTC) reply

-Barry-, please don't leave out the fact that the editor has also objected to items you had added. Steve p 15:25, 30 May 2006 (UTC) reply

I think you mean the mediator. That's true. He didn't like my table, which wasn't even in the article because I'd reached an agreement that it not be included long before the mediator got involved. Not that I ever believed it shouldn't be included, but it was no longer an issue until someone tried holding it against me in the mediation.

He also didn't want me mentioning some reasons for the decrease in popularity of Perl (for which he allowed some evidence) being bad (harder to find programmers, etc.) Maybe I made it sound like overall it's harder to find Perl programmers, but I intended to limit my statement to the effect of decreased popularity, and I didn't intend to make it sound like it's absolutly certain that Perl's popularity has decreased. Anyway, I didn't argue the point. -Barry- 16:11, 30 May 2006 (UTC) reply

Please see also, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/-Barry- and Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-05-23 Perl for more information on this ongoing dispute. - Harmil 18:02, 30 May 2006 (UTC) reply

See also Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Pudgenet, where it's been requested to have the arbitrators deal with Perl disputes. This good article dispute should be archived after arbitration to be sure what the result of this dispute will be. -Barry- 21:37, 7 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Music of Afghanistan

Result: Renominated

This article seems to of been improperly delisted a long time ago for not having images, but since those are not necessary in all instances, I don't think this should of been delisted in the first place. Though I can see a case to be made that Music in Afghanistan would probably have pictures somewhere, im not really so certain that they would be increadibly easy to access for such a country. Homestarmy 04:07, 30 June 2006 (UTC) reply

I would say relist it as a nomination.-- Konstable 08:21, 4 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Matsuo Bashō

I don't understand the reviewer's comments and neither does another editor. Ashibaka tock 23:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Moved incorrectly placed entry to the top.-- Konstable 23:12, 27 June 2006 (UTC) reply

The reviewer has left clarification on article talk page, are there any other problem Gnangarra 01:42, 28 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Problems resolved as I needed explanation that were given on the article's talk page. Lincher 13:28, 29 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Its talk page says it's an A-class article, linking to this list, which doesn't list it but which does list such things as the impossibly garrulous (all the garrulity is sourced!) Mariah Carey and the earnest juvenilia of Starfleet ranks and insignia. If that's "A-class", Matsuo Bashō should be "AAA-class" or similar. -- Hoary 13:47, 29 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Lincher if your happy this article is GA the just promote it, and archive this discussion Gnangarra 13:58, 29 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Great Pyramid of Giza

The pyramid construction article, subsection construction method theories, has numerous errors and omissions: notably with Herodotus, ramping and levering methods. For the most part, this article will deal with techniques to lift blocks up the superstrucure, but should provide an overview of the entire process. Primarily, the consensus within the academic community is that there is good information concerning the location of the quarries, tools used to cut stone, and transportation of the stone to the monument. The unknowns revolve around the lack of information regarding the methods of moving the blocks up the superstructure. Therefore, the article should cover the general academic consensus of these well known steps then seek to explain the unknown process of moving the blocks up the pyramid.

See the rest of this statement at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Great_Pyramid_of_Giza

Holocaust

Result issues fixed and GA status retained, stability addressed by partial lock of article Gnangarra 09:30, 4 July 2006 (UTC) reply

I think this should be de-listed as a "Good" article for the following reasons:

1. #5 says it should be stable, not changing significantly from day to day. All but the last 5 of the last 50 edits happened today.

2. #4 says it should be neutral point of view. While it is extremly difficult to be neutral about something like the Holocaust, comments such as "dastardly corruption of basic human values that was the Nazi credo" and "Croatian Ustashe collecting blood of a slaughtered Serb in a small pot. Orthodox Serbs had three choices - to emigrate, convert to Catholicism or end up like this" while they may be true, are hardly neutral.

3. #3 says broad in its coverage, addressing all major aspects of the topic. The article says absolutly nothing at all about the causes of the holocaust, and does not say enough about the aftermath of it, including the founding of Israel. These (causes and effects) are really quite important aspects of the topic.

Frankly, I think the topic deserves a much better article. I realise that with the painful and controversial nature of the topic there will always be vandalism of the article, and that creating a stable article may be difficult, but my other objections would be easier to fix. If no one else fixes the article I might in the future, but right now I'm busy with other things and don't want to think so much about such a depressing topic. At any rate, I feel it should be de-listed as a good article, and am asking for review of the situation. ONUnicorn 21:00, 18 May 2006 (UTC) reply

• Neutral - point 1 is valid and so is point 2. point 3, however, seems to be invalid, as the founding of israel as a result is mentioned.-- Urthogie 22:16, 18 May 2006 (UTC) reply

You said point 3 seems to be invalid, as the founding of Israel is mentioned. If you read the little section on Israel in the Holocaust article it mentions the Berihah, or smuggling of jewish immigrants into the area that would become Israel, which was an important part of the founding of Israel, but it doesn't go on from there to talk about the actual founding of a recognized state. I said in my point three that the article didn't say enough about the founding of Israel and the other effects of the holocaust, and that it didn't say anything about the causes of the holocaust. I still think it ought to say more about the effects, and whether you agree with that or not, it still doesn't say anything about the causes. ONUnicorn 13:27, 19 May 2006 (UTC) reply

Very well. I'm still neutral though, as its right on the border line in my opinion.-- Urthogie 14:06, 19 May 2006 (UTC) reply

I don't think point 1 applies, it all appears to be reverting vandals. Point 2, if not resolved by an editor, probably would make this a candidate to be de-listed. On point 3, its possible that the article is so big that putting in more information would be insanely too big, have you checked to see if there is maybe a Causes of the Holocaust or Aftermath of the Holocaust type article out there? Homestarmy 18:54, 20 May 2006 (UTC) reply

• ""Delist"" no citations in the section curelty, making it completely POV, I see random paragraphs that sound more like a High School Social Studies paper rather than an Encyclopedia entry.

Keep the article has 53 references links listed plus a seperate 17.5k article on additional references, sources and external links. Both cause and aftermath are clearly discussed, most sections contain daughter articles. Gnangarra 13:06, 20 June 2006 (UTC) reply

checked stability today at (13:13, 20 June 2006 (UTC)) last 50 edits have occured between 31st May and today thats 2.5 edits per day most changes are listed as minor or rv of NPOV and vandalism. From this the editors are trying hard to keep it free of vandalism and NPOV statements Gnangarra 13:13, 20 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Comment Allmost all of the images have invalid licenses. Some are marked with the deprecated {{PD}} tag with no explanations, or source information, others are copyright to the Polish Government (which is a non-free license) - the latter are also tagged with {{fairuse}} but no fair use rationales are given.-- Konstable 13:37, 20 June 2006 (UTC) reply

• • Comment I didnt check images (have now), I have left a message on the talk page for the article advising of this problem. Suggest we give them sometime (say 7 days) to address this problem then reconsider. Gnangarra 16:04, 22 June 2006 (UTC) reply

• • 'status editors of the article are currently verifying copyright status of images. Are there any other issues, besides stability as this dispute is requesting changes we cant fault them for stabiliy. Gnangarra 08:40, 23 June 2006 (UTC) reply

discussion completed this can be archived, if there are no further concerns Gnangarra 09:30, 4 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Ernest Hemingway

This article has been listed as a GA, but I think it is woefully inadequate in that it is missing portions of his life, and the sequence of events is jumbled so badly it's very difficult to find any one bit of information from a certain time. I don't know whether or not it qualifies as a GA, but I know it needs improvement. Thanks. -- Demonesque 06:58, 14 June 2006 (UTC) reply

I have looked at the article's talk page, and you have posted a similar message there (under Good Article? heading), and there you did not elaborate either. From a very quick flip through the article I could not see anything majorly wrong as you suggest, but I don't know anything in this area. Could you please tell us which portions you feel are missing, and give an example of how the time jumps around.-- Konstable 07:54, 15 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Mars Exploration Rover

While running GAAuto this article came up. It has been listed, delisted and relisted without nomination by three separate authors over the last week. The controversy is mostly due to the references (which are quite weak). I am therefore listing it here, in the hope to resolve whether or not it qualifies for good article status. I currently have no vote on the issue. Cedars 02:29, 19 June 2006 (UTC) reply

In cases like this where most of the material is drawn from public domain sources it doesn't make sense, IMHO, to cite every fact that is copied from the main source. That said, a quick review shows that its referecnes could be much better formatted. It is hard to judge what a consensus might be because there has been no substantial discussion or review on the Talk Page. So overall, I guess I support Keeping it de-listed pending some work on sourcing and the resource section. Still the whole thing seems a bit odd to me. Eluchil404 02:40, 19 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Without nomination, I don't see why it should be allowed to bypass the system, I vote Keep Delisted. Homestarmy 02:55, 19 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Vestigial structure

Only one reason was left for the failing of this article, that "the bullet-pointed list of examples should be converted to normal prose." In most cases I would agree with the failing, but in the case of this particular article, I believe that the list format is the most accessible for those reading the article. If it were converted to prose, the quick access, which previously existed (the ability to just scroll down and find something you wanted in the list), would no longer exist. The reader would now be required to sift through the prose for the bit of information they required. I know from personal experience, that in many cases, the only thing that many readers want is simply to know examples of vestigial structures.-- SomeStrang e r^{( t| c)} 12:41, 14 June 2006 (UTC) reply

• Stay Failed I agree with what you say. The list there is a good choice. BUT. I have flipped through the article myself and the Controversy section is a classic example of WP:WEASEL. Hence it is not NPOV, and I don't see how it can pass. Don't take me wrong. I'm a very staunch "Evolutionist", but this is really not only POVish but it reads like it is attacking the opposing side.-- Konstable 14:09, 14 June 2006 (UTC) reply

• How is it Weasel words? Everything there is specifically sourced and cited from specific cases. I would be happy not to have a 'controversies' section, but people kept adding objections which were factually incorrect, and unsourced. These were weasel words. Therefore I added specific cases of people specifically claiming specific things, then added sourced responses that indicate why these do not correspond with what the theory states, and has always stated. If you can NPOV the words, feel free. I would say, if something is commonly said by a specific group of people, saying that that group of people tend to say it and providing a reference to them saying it is not weasel words. Skittle 10:12, 16 June 2006 (UTC) reply

From WP:WEASEL: "Weasel words are words or phrases that smuggle bias into seemingly supported statements by attributing opinions to anonymous sources." (my emphasis) Skittle 10:14, 16 June 2006 (UTC) reply

The main part with which I had a problem was: Those who consider... tend to claim that the meaning has been changed over time as structures thought to be vestigial were found to have other uses.[17] However, documentation indicates... vestigial structures have invariably been understood to "sometimes retain their potentiality"[18], becoming either "wholly or in part functionless".[19] It was thought that "not infrequently the degenerating organ can be turned to account in some other way".[20] - this looks like a one sided argument as it seems to present overwhelming evidence on the side of evolutionists. However I have spent some time googling trying to find any other arguments that have been presented against this, and I couldn't find any! So it turns out that the argument really is about the definition of the word rather than the concepts (I thought this part was just some one-sidedness on your part).

So I withdraw my opposition to passing the article.-- Konstable 11:26, 16 June 2006 (UTC) reply

(: I thought I'd misunderstood when I first realised that was the deal as well. Weird, no? Skittle 12:23, 16 June 2006 (UTC) reply

So should this be put back up for review? Or do we just pass it since the only criticism has been dealt with, and Konstable has withdrawn his?-- SomeStrang e r^{( t| c)} 12:37, 16 June 2006 (UTC) reply

• I also agree that the list format was superior to the prose. To call it a list is probably incorrect, rather subtitled paragraphs. In the 'list' format the content is clear as the eye scans the page. This is not the case for the prose.

With regard to weasel words all I can see is the phrase "some creationists oppose the validity of the idea". Would this be OK if the Sarfati cite was used here? If anything this is being generous by not painting all creationists with the same view. With regard to attacking creationists the ONLY part that could be taken that way is the reference to "children's encyclopedias" with respect to creationist ideas being an oversimplification. Maybe childrens could be replaced with "non technical"?

I will note that I have never edited this page so I feel I can give a fair outside review in this case. For transparency, I will say I am a biologist and have edited a few of the evolution pages as well as the AiG and Sarfati pages from that perspective. David D. (Talk) 10:43, 16 June 2006 (UTC) reply

I have reviewed the controversy paragraph in question, and found one instance of what might be taken as an attack against creationnism. I changed the wording of that one section, but I can't seem to find anything else. Twice the phrase "Those who yadadadad" is used, but each time it is sourced. Isn't anonyminity okay if there is a source to back it up?-- SomeStrang e r^{( t| c)} 11:12, 16 June 2006 (UTC) reply

I think the proper way to do this would be to renominate. However, I do not see any reason to fail, and I'd really like to see this article move to FA standards. It's not quite there yet, but it's the best article I've read in quite a while!

I think the immediate renomination here would be a good example of WP:IAR. I also think that there is at least one minor issue to be fixed: while the bullet-pointed list is fine, the preceding text

Although the list of human vestigial structures is still more or less the same, the relative usefulness of certain structures on the list is a subject of debate. The following structures are often included in this list:

reads like a self-reference. Clearly the article cannot hope to list every structure that someone might consider vestigial, so replacing this with essentially "here are some examples in humans" would seem an improvement.

RandomP 13:00, 16 June 2006 (UTC) reply

If it's the best article you've seen in a while, might I recommend you stop by Autostereogram some time? I think it's lovely :-) Then maybe comment on it when it comes up in 'Request for Comments' or is renominated for FA :D [/advertise] Skittle 13:26, 16 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Reinstate. Strong Support to relist this, I found the aticle interesting, well written and clear with apropriate images. Ghostieguide 07:33, 20 June 2006 (UTC) reply

• Actually, if you think it is good, you don't have to "vote". I listed it again on the nominations for review by someone else, and if you want to, you can pass it yourself.-- SomeStrang e r^{( t)} 10:56, 20 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Discussion completed article Reinstated as GA - 10:30, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

And here we are again! Passed by one User:HighwayCello and immedietly delisted by one User:Raphael1.....again, supposedly for not reflecting the POV of Muslims from first-hand Muslim sources or something, and that supposedly makes the article POV. It's been long enough since the first dispute entry on this article, so I figure we may as well revisit it again. We'd change the rules to get rid of that annoying single user veto stuff except the dispute is pretty stalemated in informal mediation, supposedly we were supposed to be having some poll on the matter, but it seems to have not yet materialized. Homestarmy 16:40, 16 June 2006 (UTC) reply

I just thought i'd type up here since this is looking so much like a vote, it currently looks like 11 to be a Good Article and 2 against it being a Good Article Homestarmy 22:37, 20 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Stay failed Please read this declaration of many Muslim leaders around the world and tell me afterwards, that this view is as fairly presented in the article text as the view of the Jyllands-Posten editorial staff. IMHO the article completely misses the subject of this controversy by displaying it as a conflict between the aniconistic islamic tradition and free speech laws. Raphael1 17:14, 16 June 2006 (UTC) reply

I was not under the impression that the Muslims whom chose to violently protest the cartoons were united under this declaration you speak of. Homestarmy 19:25, 16 June 2006 (UTC) reply

What about the majority of Muslims who chose not to protest violently? Is their view fairly presented in the article? Raphael1 15:26, 17 June 2006 (UTC) reply

You are of course aware that several Muslim editors actively worked on this article? Given its topic matter, it is remarkably neutral. Valentinian ^(talk) 18:44, 20 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Many Muslim editors who could have worked on this article have been blocked. Unfortunately the evidence for this claim has been deleted. Raphael1 14:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Reinstate. The article presents the issue with no apparent bias, and could even be promoted to FA. — Rob ( talk) 20:28, 16 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Reinstate I found no bias. Views from all sides was re-presented. I personally would not have the image of the cartoons at the top due to offense it causes, but there was a poll regarding this overwhelmingly voting in favour of the current position, so I cannot object.-- Konstable 03:27, 17 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Also, I think this delisting demonstrates the need to develop a more formal policy to list/delist articles rather than 1-user decisions.-- Konstable 03:28, 17 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Very strong stay failed The cartoons article is perhaps the clearest example of wikipedia's tendency to self-select the ideas of an unrepresentative cultural minority and portray them as encyclopedic. It is not only not a Good Article, as it stand it is a Very Bad Article, and enormously harmful to wikipedia's reputation as neutral and unbiased. I recognise that many of the editors of the article believe that they have presented the information appropriately and can't see the problem with the article because of their own inherent biases. The fact that some of those editors have been trying to change the rules of GA selection purely in order to game this piece of provocative propaganda to prominence should provide ample evidence of the degree to which their lack of self-reflection has poisoned their sense of propriety. And that's why there's a veto on GA status. —  JEREMY

Hey, if you acclamate yourself to the poison in small amounts, its not half bad, don't knock the poison! -____- Homestarmy 03:54, 17 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Are you suggesting that Wikipedia not even cover the event at all? If you're saying that Wikipedia intentionally selects the 'bad parts' of a religion and exposes it to the world, I assure you that Islam is not alone in this regard ( Eric Rudolph, History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) and that neither of those two subjects amounts to a "self-selected idea made encyclopedic". They happened. They're happening. Ignorance is not a solution. I will not claim unbias in my own edits, but I will say that an effort has been made not to intentionally introduce bias into this particular article. — Rob ( talk) 05:34, 17 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Jeremy, whatever happened, the event should be covered. The offensive images were placed there under a very strong (I think it was a 10:1 vote) concensus and I don't think it is right to ignore that. The article does not say that it was right for those cartoons to be published, it uses them to illustrate the issue that it is talking about. (In the same way that Islamic media did also by the way). And since you decide to overule what everyone else here thinks, I think you should tell us why exactly. What in this article are you opposed to?-- Konstable 07:39, 17 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Of course the events should be properly covered; they have not been. The article is badly constructed and so riddled with bias and apologist weaseling it's hard to know where to begin — so let's start there.

• "twelve editorial cartoons [...] were published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten [...] which they said they were doing as part of a debate" — Grammatical junk.
• "Critics of the cartoons [...] argue that they are blasphemous" — What, all of them? And why no mention of critics' suggestions that they were "Childish. Irresponsible. Hate speech. A provocation just for the sake of provocation. A PR stunt." ^[1]?
• "Supporters of the cartoons claim they illustrate an important issue" — Again, this kind of uncited generalisation demonstrates the inherent bias in this article.
• "Several death threats and reward offers for killing those responsible for the cartoons have been made, resulting in the cartoonists going into hiding." — What, all of them?
• "both in Danish and Arabic versions." — Hey, let's redundantly link "Danish", but who wants to link to Arabic, after all?
• Note the "Publication of the Drawings" is followed immediately by "Jyllands-Posten response", without the apparently inconvenient requirement for an intervening discussion of the Muslim reaction, which would have made some sense of the section titles.
• "It concluded:" — What concluded? The Muslim ambassadors?
• "The ambassadors maintained that they had never asked for Jyllands-Posten to be prosecuted" — No cite. And did they maintain this in chorus?
• No valid English sentence begins "That while the right to freedom of speech must be exercised".
• "A group of Danish imams, dissatisfied with the reaction of the Danish Government and Jyllands-Posten" — This construction implies motives to the imams without so much as a cite.
• In the bloated and unwieldy "dossier" section (what is it about {{Main}} that's so difficult? You worked it our fine for the "Economic costs" section) Hirsi Ali's interview which so offended the imams is not described. Instead, it is immediately excused by the statement "who had just received the Freedom Prize 'for her work to further freedom of speech and the rights of women' from the Danish Liberal Party represented by Anders Fogh Rasmussen."
• The article only gets around to mentioning the names of (some of) the imams in the "Danish Imams under investigation" section; apparently they only merit identification once they're being linked to terrorism.
• "It also contains misinformation such as:" — This is blatant bias, particularly as no argument is presented to refute the statement it condemns.
• "The inclusion in the dossier of the cartoons from Weekendavisen was perhaps not due as much to willful misinformation as possibly a misunderstanding." — Nuff said.
• "Contemporary majority Sunni Islam" — What is the "Contemporary" meant to imply? That there was a time when Sunni Islam was the minority?
• "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced a Holocaust Conference, supported by the OIC, to uncover what he called the "myth" used to justify the creation of Israel. Ahmadinejad started voicing doubts about the veracity of the holocaust at the same OIC conference in Mecca that served to spread the Akkari-Laban dossier to leaders of the Muslim world." — Fatuous OR.
• Of the 18 "Comparable references", all but 3 seem to be entirely OR (ie. they are uncited).
• At least some of the few references I've bothered to check are mislabelled (eg. ref #86).

The whole shemozzle is rounded out with a liberal smattering of misspellings (eg. "Mgazine", Jylland-Posten"/"Jyllands Posten"/"Jullands-Posten", and the non-standard "Muhammed" and "Shariah"), homophonic word substitutions (eg. "diffusion" for "defusing"), miscapitalisations (eg. "explained his intent further In the" and "danish"), introduced redundancies (eg. "We urge you [recipient of the letter or dossier] to - [...] - to give us"), missing spaces, redundant wikilinking, enough hokey original research ("They were more likely parodies on the pompousness of Jylland-Posten's [sic] cartoons than cartoons of the prophet in their own right,") to justify a National Enquirer article, misquotations like "the number of Muslims expanding like mosquitoes" (that would be "is expanding"), a link to the "Bad Democracy Award for March 2006" slipped in as an "online petition" and the unmissed opportunity to include yet more depictions of Muhammad by irrelevantly including the cover of the Kåre Bluitgen book and a 14th century Persian illustration, as well as a "gotcha" link to the entire Wikicommons archive. And this is even without getting started on the cartoons themselves.

This is a badly constructed, poorly edited article, which is the subject of constant, ongoing controversy. In no sense can it possibly be deemed "good". But the real reason this article has been bad for wikipedia is the editors who have come to the project as a result of its publication thinking that it is an example of a how to write for wikipedia, and now spill over into the rest of the encyclopedia trailing fundamentalism and intolerance like the Good Ol' Boys on tour. They are what's really rotten in this particular state. —  JEREMY 11:03, 17 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Reinstate Acknowledging the deeply-held beliefs expressed by Raphael1 and Jeremygbyrne, this is a very good article by secular standards, and I think those are the standards we need to apply. Timothy Usher 03:53, 17 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Reinstate This is ridiculous, with the vote of one user ( User:Raphael1 ) this article is held back from it's rightful classification. Netscott 16:39, 17 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Stay failed While I don't think this article should have been removed so soon after being promoted, I do believe that at this point it should definatley remain failed. There is bias riddled throughout the article (just look at the pieces that Jeremy has taken the time to pick out). These complaints of bias are not religiously based, there is definatley secular bias in the article. This should not set as a precendent for future good article promotions.-- SomeStrang e r^{( t| c)} 17:23, 17 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Reinstate on the basis of incorrect delisting. Pretty self-explanatory. Various other circumstances have caused me to reexamine my standards for GA, this probably passes anyways. More importantly, this goes against the decision of another editor too soon after the descision in improper form.-- SomeStrang e r^{( t)} 19:01, 19 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Reinstate - except that it needs some light copy-editing (which I will do), this article has long met the criteria and seems to be opposed by a small but vocal minority on ideological grounds. Metamagician3000 08:21, 18 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Reinstate - Personal beliefs non-withstanding, I believe this article is well-written, covers all the angles that one could have regarding the controversy, and comprehensively describes the direct results of this event. [User JaKaL! apparently forgot to sign

Oops. That was a typo. I did intend to sign it. JaKaL! 15:31, 20 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Reinstate - it should have never have been delisted in the first place. Sure it needs a little copyediting but the content is solid, encyclopedic and kept in a very neutral POV (pretty impressive given the topic). The article has been worked on by countless users, has more than 100 references and grew so large that several other articles had to be split out of it. In short: it has good potential to become a FA and clearly lives up to the standards of other GAs. If a veto right exists it should be scrapped asap. The discussion above speaks for itself. Valentinian ^(talk) 12:51, 20 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Reinstate - This article is a splendid example of a controversial subject presented in an fair, informative and objective way. That some of the articles opponents declare it to be "provocative propaganda" only goes to show their skewed view of the subject - The article states the facts and the facts only (and in great detail, for an encyclopedia), and as far as I can tell nowhere does it try to "push" any opinion on anybody. The.valiant.paladin 13:55, 20 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Please consider this about Wikipedia before continuing this discussion. Gnangarra 02:36, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Reinstate, well, I give my vote to this nice article that doesn't promote any side in the heated debate. I think it meets all the criteria too. Lincher 16:04, 22 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Reinstate, as we seem to be voting for some reason. Seems to meet all of the criteria of a GA. Well layed out, informative, well referenced, mostly good quality prose. - Peripitus (Talk) 08:38, 26 June 2006 (UTC) reply

this article has been Reinstated as GA Gnangarra 09:19, 26 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Err, not quite yet, it seems one editor disagrees. Homestarmy 12:45, 26 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Kandinsky

- the following excerpt is questionable if not ridiculous. The reference was brought to my attention by an article in the Guardian ( http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1802426,00.html)

"In this context, it is only slightly less than astounding that a red profile image of Vladimir Lenin appears in the top center of Composition IV at least six years before his visible presence in Russia; and a blue frontal image of Adolph Hitler appears in the lower left of the 1912 improvisation for Composition VI titled Deluge I--nine years before Hitler is named Fuhrer of the German Nazi Party."

Can we seriously believe the abstract form in paintings from 1911 and 1912 are Lenin and Hitler respectively? I thereby suggest the article be reviewed.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Cdelutz ( talk • contribs)

This is clearly rubbish. Even if it had referenses I don't believe silly things like this should be sited here (if you look at the paintings in question you'll see why). I am removing it straight away. Article looks messy, may still need delisting (especially since its editors missed such blatant nonsense as this). I will give it a review when I can.-- Konstable 13:12, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Delist Ok. I have looked through it, and I didn't see any similar statements. But I would not pass the article as a GA myself. I will list my reasons below, if you have agree/disagree that this is enough to delist let me know.

• It is too long and if I were, say, after the biographical info about his life, it would be hard to find. It is mixed in with very long analysis of his art. Of course he is an artist, so that shouldn't be removed, but It probably should be branched out into other articles.
• Some bad formatting used in a couple of places. There is a list of definitions of the techniques he used that is not even a standard list! It is presented in several 1-line paragraphs with the defined word in bold.
• There are too many quotes - they cover more than a full screen! They need to be moved to Wikiquote.
• Most images are fair use without rationales. And the photo of the artist uses the deprecated {{ PD}} tag and has no source (which is actually enough to get it deleted).
• Some other reasons that are not meant to count towards GA that annoyed me were: absolutely no inline citations (though there are some references at the bottom), there are quite a few images of his paintings on the page, but the ones that the article talks about most (for instance Composition IV) are not seen.

-- Konstable 13:15, 23 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Delist I agree with User:Konstable additionally there are six links Composition IV articles should only link once to a subject, yet they could link to Composition IV like so and it would be an improvement, Note I took this suggestion from the talk page of the article. Gnangarra 14:28, 23 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Comment I have delisted article from GA and adjusted template on page Gnangarra 14:35, 23 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Metropolis (film)

Although it is considered one of the most influential films of all time, the article is written as if the subject were the greatest thing of all mankind. I'm not saying the negative aspects must be pointed out; it's just that the article seems ridiculously POV. Ohyeahmormons 16:46, 4 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Delist: It also seems to be undersourced, as there are only 3 references in the entire article.-- P-Chan 16:21, 10 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Notification of this discussion has been posted to article talk page. Article has been delisted Gnangarra 12:13, 20 June 2006 (UTC) reply

this discussion will be archived after 7 days if no further issues are raised Gnangarra 12:27, 20 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Dallas, Texas

The Dallas article failed the following listed criteria of WP:WIAGA.

1. It is well written. In this respect:

(a) it has compelling prose, and is readily comprehensible to non-specialist readers;

(b) it follows a logical structure, introducing the topic and then grouping together its coverage of related aspects; where appropriate, it contains a succinct lead section summarising the topic, and the remaining text is organised into a system of hierarchical sections (particularly for longer articles);

(c) it follows the Wikipedia Manual of Style;

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable. In this respect:

(a) it provides references to any and all sources used for its material;

(c) sources should be selected in accordance with the guidelines for reliable sources;

3. It is broad in its coverage, addressing all major aspects of the topic (this requirement is slightly weaker than the "comprehensiveness" required by WP:FAC, and allows shorter articles and broad overviews of large topics to be listed);.

This article has some "citation needed" tag throughout the article. I am not saying it lacks sources, but there are claims that need to have references. The lead section does not summarize the article at all. All there is in the lead section is how big Dallas and its metropolitan area are. Overall, lead section is does not have any breadth on Dallas and is too short for an article of its size. The article body is not "broad in its coverage". The government section is a stub and doesn't have anything about the city's politics. This section is incomplete. The economy section doesn't really say anything about the city's economy�it's past, present, and future. All there is in the economy section is what companies are located in Dallas and its metro area. The Copyeditor 04:16, 29 May 2006 (UTC) reply

Hmm, the references criteria doesn't say perfect references, or that articles with citation needed tags will fail reference automatically. It just says references to the sources and have them be reliable, compleatness isn't necessarily a criteria or that. However, if the lead really fails the manual of style, then yes, it should be delisted, and the lack of broadness should also get it as well. Homestarmy 15:46, 30 May 2006 (UTC) reply

If there are 'citation required' tags, that definitely means it fails the criteria because those facts are not verifiable. Worldtraveller 01:16, 3 June 2006 (UTC) reply

This discussion appears completed if there are no object I'll archive this discussion in 2 days Gnangarra 14:53, 22 June 2006 (UTC) reply

Max Stuart

result:Delisted This article under went a very bold and agressive edit by an experienced editor while it was listed for PR. The edits were not the result of any suggestions from PR and occured witout discussion on the article talk page. These edits have added more information on his early life(1950's), apositive. The problem is they have also removed/reduced significant details on his more recent activities and achievements(1990's). There has been added an irrelevant image with questionable copyright, as well a definately copyrighted image with a fair use claim. Gnangarra 15:11, 21 June 2006 (UTC) reply