Talk:Lindenwood University/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Jezhotwells (talk) 15:49, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

I shall be reviewing this article against the Good Article criteria, following its nomination for Good Article status.

Disambiguations: none found.

Linkrot: five found and tagged.[1] Jezhotwells (talk) 15:54, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Checking against GA criteria

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

   Its athletic teams, called the Lions, and are currently in the process of transitioning athletics from the NAIA as members of the Heart of America Conference to NCAA Division II as members of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Poorly written and confusing.{[done}}

   Fixed- cleaned up and reworded.

   the university offers a large network of student life including athletics, honor societies, clubs and student organizations, and fraternities and sororities. "a large network of student life" network is not the right word here. Done

   Fixed/reworded

   During The Sibleys' time at Fort Osage Mary, has been recorded as having taught children at Fort Osage capitalization, wronglt placed comma. Done

   Fixed improper capitalization and comma placement. also wording cleanup.

   While at Fort Sibley, George acquired little more than 0.5 square kilometres (120 acres) of land in St. Charles, Missouri. a little more? Done

   Fixed- reworded, clarified and expanded paragraph

   ''In 1913 the school became an accredited junior college by the North Central Association. Poorly phrased. Done

   Fixed/Rephrased

   The college and became a co-educational institution in 1969 and changed its name from Lindenwood College for Women to Lindenwood Colleges. Done

   Fixed

   It needs a thorough copy-edit by someone with a good command of plain English. The WP:Guild of copyeditors may be able to help. Done

   Still a lot of elementary errors. In the next section I find By 1989, Lindenwood College was low on monetary resources, had low enrollement below 800 students, and in danger of closing. Frankly that is just plain shoddy. Get it copy-edited. It is not a requirement taht a GA reveiewer point out every grammatical error. That sort of work should be done before nomination.

It had a peer review about a month ago but has since been expanded, also after reading the copyedit link you provided I realized they are different. I did an extensive copyedit reading the entire article myself. cleaned up a bunch of tiny errors and also a few sentence restructures such as the one you pointed out. In addition to my copyedit I also placed a request for a copyedit since it never hurts to have a few people review it/in case I missed anything.

1. Short one or two sentence sections such as Lindenwood University Press and Student profile should be avoided.

   Fixed: Merged into larger approprate sections.

   Still need to consoldiate one or two sentence paragraphs.

Fixed: consolidated paragraphs and also recieved extensive copyedit.

1. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

   Five deadlinks as noted above.

Fixed linkrot

Fixed or any new linkrot in the past 24-48 hrs?

Available sources support cited statements, sources appear RS, no evidence of OR

1. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

   satisfies criteria

2. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

3. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

4. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

   Suitable tags, rationales and captions

5. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

   On hold for seven days for a thorough copy-edit to be performed. When that has happened, I can continue the review. Jezhotwells (talk) 16:20, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

   Much still to be done. See if you can get help from projects or the guild of copyeditors. Jezhotwells (talk) 14:58, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

   OK, I think this passes muster now. I am happyto list this. Congratulations. Jezhotwells (talk) 01:33, 12 March 2011 (UTC)