Talk:New Mexico/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

GA Checklist

GA review (see here for criteria)

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1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS):

• The article is fairly well written. If I were you though, I'd take one more look over it to check any spelling and grammar mistakes.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
• There are also a few bits that are oddly worded for example, "The United States Census Bureau, as of July 1, 2008, estimated New Mexico's population at 1,984,356" How about "As of July 1, 2008, the United States Census Bureau estimated New Mexico's population at 1,984,356.":* Done NERDYSCIENCEDUDE (✉ msg • changes) 04:42, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
• There are a few sections that are way too small to deserve it's own section. For example, the "Flora and fauna" secion should be merged with perhaps the Geography section or enlarged. It does'nt make since haveing a secion talk aobut flowers if it is entitled "geography" so you may also want to rename that section an appropriate new name if you take my advice. Not a deal breaker but it does seem a bit odd.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

•  Done per Hadger below. NERDYSCIENCEDUDE (✉ msg • changes) 04:42, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

• And speeking of the Geogaphy secion, you'll need to add more citations to the secion before I can pass it. If possible, I'd like one citation per paragraph at least.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
  • Comment I'm not the one who nominated the article, but I'd say flowers do have something to do with geography. Geography is the study of Earth.--Hadger 04:06, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
    •  Done Let me know if more is needed. NERDYSCIENCEDUDE (✉ msg • changes) 21:28, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
• Your going to also need to expand the "climate" subsection with citations as well.
  •  Done Let me know if more is needed. NERDYSCIENCEDUDE (✉ msg • changes) 21:28, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
• the tags are going to have to be deat with as well. I only count two so it's not too big of a problem.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
  •  Done NERDYSCIENCEDUDE (✉ message • changes) 17:26, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
• (More) Citations are required for the languages and religion secion as well.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
  •  Done ~NERDYSCIENCEDUDE (✉ message • changes) 15:14, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
• Ciatations are also desperately needed for the Transportation section.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
• Rather than pile it on, I'll just say that several other sections have little or no citations.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
• Education section needs to be expanded, you can just copy-and-paste from the main articles as long as you re-word it and provide citations.
• Per WP:CITE, you need to make the existing citations inclue the author (if possible) the acess date, the title ect....some of them are missing this info and only contain the bare URL.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

• If it's still an issue, I'll fix this. Lord Spongefrog, (I am Czar of all Russias!) 11:56, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

• See also links in sub-secions and secions need to be at the top of the secion/sub-secion.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
  •  Done NERDYSCIENCEDUDE (✉ msg • changes) 03:38, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

1. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

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

   Offline source accepted in good faith. No issues here. You just need more of them! (See above)--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

2. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

   Well, overall, the article is broad in coverage and is on topic. The only exeptions are that you'll need to expand the Sports, Art and Literature adn Education secions a bit. (Along with the others listed above)--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

3. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

   No POV in existance.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

4. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

   No issue in this category.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

5. 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):

   Good to go.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

6. Overall: Well, this is almost there. You'll need to properly adress those issues and then I'll pass it. And as for the deadline, as long as you keep working on it, I'll make the deadline indef. You'll need the extra time. Perhaps you can get Spongefrog and a few other people to help you out. I'd help out but seeing as I am the reviewer, I can't really work on it without a COI!--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 03:30, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

   Pass/Fail:

I'm not the reviewer, but I'd say that the Race and ancestry section needs more sources, especially with the percentage of which cultures live there (hopefully you know what I mean). --Hadger 04:04, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

As the reviewer, I'll have to argee with what he's saying here. You need a citatin for every culture.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 04:09, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

There already citiations that cite this. It's after "According to the US Census" or something like that. ~NERDYSCIENCEDUDE (✉ message • changes) 15:13, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Remaining issues

1. The Transportation section still needs some more citations.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 17:12, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
2. The Political section needs more citations.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 17:12, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
3. The education system still needs major expanding and citations as well.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 17:12, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
4. Expansion needed tags still need to be addressed.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 17:12, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
5. some links are have names but nothing else. You need access dates for evey online source as well as an author if possible.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 17:12, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment — This article should not be passed in its current state. Many sections need expansion and lots more refs are required. Aaroncrick ^TALK 04:20, 13 April 2010 (UTC) He's right. I'm going to have to fail this one since nothing much is happening. I'm sorry NSD, maybe you can keep on working on it and nominate it later.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 10:52, 14 April 2010 (UTC)