Talk:University of British Columbia/GA2

GA Review

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Reviewer: Jaguar (talk · contribs) 21:48, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

I'll complete this soon. I wish I could come here. JAGUAR  21:48, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Initial comments

• "commonly referred to as UBC" - typically this should be shortened and in brackets, per WP:LEAD
• "UBC's 4.02 km2 (993-acre)" - why is there a hyphen in acre? oh, nevermind. I haven't seen that before
• WP:LEADCITE states citations are discouraged in the lead unless it's controversial information. There is a overkill on citations in the lead for now
• At the moment the lead does not summarise the article and could to with restructuring. There isn't enough about history and campus facilities but yet most of the lead consists of statistics!
• Be careful of WP:OVERLINK in the last paragraph of the lead
• "In 1877, only six years after British Columbia joined Canada" - how is British Columbia joining Canada six years prior relevant here? "Only" sounds slightly off too
• "and a board of governors (citizens)" - would be better as "consisting of citizens/members of public"
• Half of the Foundation and early years section is unreferenced
• Same goes with Move to Point Grey, most parts do not have references
• The large quotation in the Move to Point Grey section needs to be formatted correctly so it shows the reader that it is a quotation rather than appearing like another paragraph
• "Heavy rains and melting snowfall eroded a deep ravine across the north end of the campus, in the Grand Campus Washout of 1935" - this sentence doesn't need a comma. What is the Grand Campus Washout of 1935 too!?
• "WWII marked the first" - World War II
• Vancouver section only contains one citation. There is also a "who" tag
• "In 2010, UBC Okanagan campus doubled in size from 105 ha. to 208.6 ha" - needs convert
• "UBC has been ranked in the Corporate Knights" - since this is a start of a new section, UBC needs to be written out fully, like before
• Finances section unreferenced!
• Residences section vastly unreferenced and shows evidence of WP:JARGON throughout. Do we really need to know every dorm and new addition? Also, there are short paragraphs here to be merged

Close - not listed

I'm so sorry to do this but I'm going to have to stop here. This article doesn't meet the GA criteria now and would require significant work for it to reach it. The GA criteria states that at least every paragraph to be referenced, but most of this article does not have citations to back claims up. There are some evidence of jargon and formatting errors, but I'm sure that they can be fixed given time.

Can you accept me into this university please? JAGUAR  17:40, 19 June 2015 (UTC)