Talk:Reservation in India/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Maclean25 (talk · contribs) 01:48, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Good article review (see Wikipedia:What is a good article? for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

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

   Insufficient lead. Inappropriate list-table in "Critiques of the Reservations System".

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

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

   Formatting of references must be completed.

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

   Productive editing

6. 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):

   One image used File:Caste and Community of Profile People below povertyline in India.PNG tagged as CC-Share Alike.

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

   Comments:

   I understand this is part of a class project: Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Politics of Developing Nations (Martha Johnson). I will make minor edits to the article as I see fit, but I will list major edits here for the editors to take care of. maclean (talk) 01:48, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Notes

• 1b. From WP:LEAD, the lead requires a "summary of its most important aspects" and "should be able to stand alone as a concise overview". It currently defines the topic well but doesn't provide a complete stand-alone summary. The lead should include elements from every section.
• Add more wikilinks to relevant terms in the article, WP:UNDERLINK.
• 2b The first reference links to marcgalanter.net The Age of the Clans but I do not see anything to do with "Competing Equalities" in there.
• 2b Complete the footnotes by adding the publisher, and the author and date, if known, for each.
• 1a in "Explanation of the Reservations System", for a period of five years, after which the situation was to be reviewed. This period was routinely extended by the succeeding governments. - add a time reference to this, like what year was it supposed to be reviewed, or when was it extended?
• 1a in "Beneficiary Groups", I am unclear what "seats in educational institutions" means. Does this mean enrolled students?
• "Caste" has 3 paragraphs but they all discuss the same idea (percentages given to different castes). This should be combined into one paragraph. Add citations to references indicating where the percentages for Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal were found. Is there anything else to say specifically about castes benefiting from the reservation system other than their percentage allocations? Same with Gender or Religion?
• 2b. Fix reference 10 (Affirmative Action and Peer Effects) which seems to have a broken url link.
• 2b. Add a citation to the "State of Domiciles" and "Other" sections to show where the information is coming from.
• "Government Funding allowing Reservations in Colleges/Universities" seems to be out of date. what happened after 2007?
• 1a in "Critiques", convert the table to prose. Instances where tables and lists are appropriate can be found here: Wikipedia:Embedded list. This does show impressive skill at making tables with wikicode, though.
• 2c. In "Advances under the Reservations System", So it can be concluded that the reservation system helped the SC's in getting employed at an increasing rate. - Wikipedia does not draw conclusions. Wikipedia only reports on the conclusions drawn by others.

Conclusion

This review is on hold as the above notes are address. I will monitor your progress and provide further notes or clarification if required. maclean (talk) 11:42, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Additional comments (I am not a co-reviewer, the decision with Maclean)

• Missing mention of Mandal Commission protests of 1990 and 2006 Indian anti-reservation protests. Two monumental events in the history of reservation.
• All %, dates need to be cited. eg: "Andhra Pradesh's administration has introduced a law enabling 4% reservations for Muslims", "The Women's reservation Bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha on 9 March 2010 by a majority vote of 186 members in favor and 1 against", "In Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, earlier 85% of seats were reserved for Chandigarh domiciles and now it is 50%"
• We are also missing community based reservations. For eg. Sindhis (eg. Thadomal Shahani Engineering College) have 50 % in a college owned by them.

--Redtigerxyz ^Talk 18:23, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

• There has been some positive editing here. However, after two weeks, there are still issues to work on, as noted above. Therefore, I am closing the review and not listing it as a Good Article at this time. maclean (talk) 19:39, 6 December 2011 (UTC)