Talk:Victor Maghakian/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Vacant0 (talk · contribs) 23:39, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi! I saw this article on the GAN backlog. I will start the review tomorrow. Cheers, --Vacant0 (talk) 23:39, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Good Article review progress box Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

Comments

General

• A hyphen should be added between "Armenian American" in the lede.
• An optional addition of {{short description}} and {{Use mdy dates}} would be good.
• Implement the {{ubl}} template instead of <br />'s per MOS:NOBR. (eg. {{ubl|[[Sino-Japanese War]]|[[World War II]]:}})
• Other work can be shortened to just {{hlist|Hotel executive|security consultant}}.
• Lede should be re-written, according to MOS:LEADLENGTH it should at least have two paragraphs, three is max.

→ Captain Victor "Transport" Maghakian (Armenian: Վիգդոր Մաղաքեան; December 30, 1915 – August 17, 1977) was an Armenian-American...

• "It is noted that his great-grandfather killed 112 enemy Turks in his lifetime." – this can be removed, such details aren't needed for this article.
• Comma missing between 1939 and Maghakian in the beginning of the "In 1939 Maghakian returned to Fresno where he became a Fresno County deputy sheriff and was assigned to safeguard power installations and dams of the California Edison Company near the Sierra Nevada." sentence.
• I would prefer the first paragraph in the "Life" section to stay and to rename the section to "Early life". The second paragraph should be moved into a new section called "Military career" which will also incorporate the "World War II" section. I would prefer the section to only include "Early career" and "World War II" subsections, without the battles sub-headings.
• The third paragraph and death should be moved to a new section called "Late life and death" which will be located above the "Legacy" section which will include his sisters' sentence from 2008.
• End quote is placed on the wrong side of the point – ""It was an easy job, like shooting fish in a barrel. I simply fired 30 rounds with my carbine and threw a grenade, and that was all. Not very interesting.""
• The Awards section can be turned into a similar-looking one like on Robert L. Eichelberger's article. Citations text can be removed.
• Also something that I forgot, blank and unused parameters from the infobox should be removed.
• The copyvio detector looks interesting, although the website itself says that it uses material from Wikipedia. I'll ignore that one, it seems like it's one of those "Wikipedia copy-paste" websites.
  • Dropped down to 9%, good.

Images

• All alright.

Sources

• Sources from the lede should be moved to a specific section per MOS:CITELEAD.
• A source for his death is possibly missing.
• ArmeniaFest links are dead.
• Rest of the bibliography is alright.

@ZaniGiovanni: This article mostly doesn't fit the "well-written criteria" since as I have pointed out there is a lot of stuff that will have to be re-done. I will put it on hold for now, otherwise, the article will fail if these issues do not get fixed. --Vacant0 (talk) 18:41, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

@Vacant0 happy holidays and thanks for the review. I'll try to address all the issues by this week, if that's ok for you. Have a good day! ZaniGiovanni (talk) 11:22, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

It's okay, happy holidays! Vacant0 (talk) 13:11, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Vacant0 Mostly Done! Remaining:

• Lede should be re-written, according to MOS:LEADLENGTH it should at least have two paragraphs, three is max.
• Sources from the lede should be moved to a specific section per MOS:CITELEAD.

I'll finish the 2 remaining tasks this week. Also, removed all ArmeniaFest dead links, and couldn't find any WP:RS to verify the: "He was also a member of the Nevada Gaming Control Board", so removed it as well. Thanks again for the review! ZaniGiovanni (talk) 13:56, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Sure, no problem. Cheers, Vacant0 (talk) 18:35, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

FYI: the lede should have either two or three paragraphs in this case. Vacant0 (talk) 11:25, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Vacant0 all  Done. If there is anything else, please let me know. Thank you for your patience, ZaniGiovanni (talk) 14:01, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

One paragraph is present in the lede. See Robert L. Eichelberger where four paragraphs are present. Vacant0 (talk) 19:11, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Vacant0 should be good now. Cheers, ZaniGiovanni (talk) 08:07, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm promoting this to GA. Vacant0 (talk) 12:46, 11 January 2022 (UTC)