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Reaching for B (2011-01) edit

Yes, I know it started in 2010, but most of the work will be in 2011. This collaboration started between ZooPro, The Arbiter, and Donlammers, but hey, the more the merrier, so I'm restating some of our initial discussion. I have also updated the B-criteria checks in the banner. All must be set to yes before we can call this a B-class article. Once that's done, we can see if GAN is realistic (it probably will be by then).

The main issue keeping this article from B-class seems to be a complete lack of citations (we've put some there now, but there weren't any). So I think the most productive course is to just start citing (though nobody will complain if you also add new material). If you are unfamiliar with citations, just put an ISBN (and page numbers) or a URL right after the text you want to cite, and I will come through and make it into a full citation. Finding the source is the hard part, so don't feel like you are shirking your duties. I will also be consolidating citations in the reflist (again, you do it however you are comfortable with it -- I will standardize for the article). This keeps the text cleaner and easier to read, and makes it easier to find the citations themselves -- especially if they are used multiple times.

One warning: I started citing the Organisation section and discovered that about half of it was copied directly from the WAZA site (sometimes cynical me thinks that people don't cite because that would immediately expose their plagiarism). I have rewritten it, but just keep this in mind as you go through and cite things -- you may also need to do some rewriting.

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