Talk:Minoan civilization/GA1

GA Review

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I am reviewing the article.--Redtigerxyz (talk) 12:03, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Manual review:

• Images:
  • Image:Knossos bull.jpgand Image:Knossos frise pieuvre edit.jpg tag is possibly wrong, is the photo's life of the author plus 70 years?
  • There are 2 labrys of gold, one is redundant. Image:Labrys.jpg tag is possibly wrong, is the photo's life of the author plus 70 years? The source link is dead, no source verification
  • The galleries can be avoided.
• References:
  • In certain places parenthesis is used for ref, elsewhere <ref></ref>. Use one throughout.
  • Though there is a list of references, there are very just inline references considering the size of the text. Add them, inline references are necessary for GA status. Fails "at minimum, it provides in-line citations from reliable sources for statistics, published opinion," like years, quoting Homer etc.
  • Page numbers are missing for some ref
  • tags added upto "Religion", tags are not added for years, though they need refs too.
• Broad in its coverage, Stable: Yes.
• The lead does not cover all areas of the article, there is WP:UNDUE to what Minoans were called and palaces.
• Every other word should be linked, e.g. mountain, island need not be linked. Only those related to the topic or jargon, must be linked.--Redtigerxyz (talk) 12:39, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

GA FAIL--Redtigerxyz (talk) 12:43, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Automated peer review: The following suggestions were generated by a semi-automatic javascript program, and might not be applicable for the article in question.

• If there is not a free use image in the top right corner of the article, please try to find and include one.^[?]
• Avoid including galleries in articles, as per Wikipedia:Galleries. Common solutions to this problem include moving the gallery to wikicommons or integrating images with the text.^[?]
• You may wish to consider adding an appropriate infobox for this article, if one exists relating to the topic of the article. ^[?] (Note that there might not be an applicable infobox; remember that these suggestions are not generated manually)
• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), there should be a non-breaking space -   between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 100 metres, use 100 metres, which when you are editing the page, should look like: 100&nbsp;metres.^[?]
• Per WP:WIAFA, this article's table of contents (ToC) may be too long – consider shrinking it down by merging short sections or using a proper system of daughter pages as per Wikipedia:Summary style.^[?]
• This article may need to undergo summary style, where a series of appropriate subpages are used. For example, if the article is United States, then an appropriate subpage would be History of the United States, such that a summary of the subpage exists on the mother article, while the subpage goes into more detail.^[?]
• Please make the spelling of English words consistent with either American or British spelling, depending upon the subject of the article. Examples include: honour (B) (American: honor), harbor (A) (British: harbour), meter (A) (British: metre), metre (B) (American: meter), recognize (A) (British: recognise), criticise (B) (American: criticize), isation (B) (American: ization), skillful (A) (British: skilful), jewelry (A) (British: jewellery).
• Watch for redundancies that make the article too wordy instead of being crisp and concise. (You may wish to try Tony1's redundancy exercises.)
  • 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.”
• 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]^[?]
• Please provide citations for all of the {{fact}}s.^[?]
• Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.^[?]

You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, Redtigerxyz (talk) 12:46, 11 October 2008 (UTC)