Wikipedia:Peer review/List of African countries/archive1

List of African countries and dependencies

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I've listed this article for peer review because I (through a suggestion from User:Sunderland06) think it is probably worthy of Featured list status.

Thanks, Chris_huh^talk 11:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Ruhrfisch comments: Very briefly, here are some suggestions for improvement. If you want more comments, please ask here.

• I like this overall and it looks close to being ready for FLC, but there are a few things that need work first, mostly references.
• Is there any reason the maps column is sortable?
  • It was sort of a test to see if something like that would work. It just means that it will sort the countries from North-west to South-east, which may be useful to some people.
• I think the entries on dependencies might be clearer if they identified the parent nation in the table row somewhere, not just in a note - the flags already do this to some extent. Or I think more people have heard of Western Sahara than its current official name...

YI have added the parent country in brackets after the name, the only problem is that with the other countries the official name is in brackets, but they are in italics. So it might be clear enough. I also switched Western Sahara around with Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

• Is there any reason inline citations are not used? There are numbered refs at the bottom, but they do not link to the entry (can't click on a number and go to the place in the article where the ref is used).
  • This was originally because i was using these for notes, and didn't have time to use the other notes tags. I will look into doing that.
    • Y I didn't realise that they had finally brought in a group parameter for the ref tags. Brilliant. this is done now.
• Biggest problem is lack of refs - in the lead in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. needs a ref
  • I'll look into adding these.
• The dependecies need refs - there is none for the French overseas departments that I could find, for example.
  • That too.
• See also should be listed by full article name, i.e. List of African countries by GDP, not by GDP

Ythis was just left over from the old version of the page, i have fixed this now.

• WOuld it make sense to have a large map of Africa at the bottom showing the whole continent and location of all 61 places? I like the maps used, but they make it harder to get an overall picture of the continent.
  • Mmm, that might help. I will look around for a map.
    • I have found this map which has the countries names on it, but it isn't very clear. I don't really know if it will fit in very well either as it would cause a lot of blank space, unless a lot of text is also added.

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 04:25, 16 October 2008 (UTC)