Talk:Income inequality in the United States/GA1
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GA Reassessment[edit]
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As part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles' Project quality task force, all old good articles are being re-reviewed to ensure that they meet current good article criteria (as detailed at WP:WIAGA. I have determined that this article needs some upkeep to maintain its status, and I have some additional comments:
- The lead is way to massive and gets bogged down in stats, facts, and jargon immediately, largely sinking the legibility for the uninitiated. It needs to be slimmed down and rewritten.
- Among the unclear parts: "While there seems to be consensus among social scientists that some degree of income inequality is needed" needed for what?
- I'm concerned about the amount of Greenspan quotes etc in this article, essentially since he's admitted many of his ideas were wrong; it seems like his opinion is being given undue weight (especially in the lead, but throughout as well.)
- Body issues:
- "Along with the entrance of women into the labor force, the discrepancy between those households with one and those with multiple earners was amplified significantly." entrance of women into the labor force yesterday? Two decades ago? It's not made clear what this means.
- What is the point of the "Income at a glance" section? We aren't a collection of data points, this needs elaboration.
- We don't have the 2010 census, but I'm pretty sure income equality is still a reported issues. What about new information and figures?
- Unsourced information found throughout, but the most obvious OR issues is in the "Causes" section, ex. "as the majority are immigrating from poor countries, come to the US, and work their way out of poverty and into the middle class.", etc.
- On the images:
- Considering much of this article requires the use of clear graphs... it falls down in this regard. The stock MS Office themes do not do a good job of reading legibly at small sizes, especially with the unneeded dark grey background.
I'll list more issues soon, but these are the main issues right now. I'm putting the article on hold for a week pending improvements. Keep me posted. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs(talk) 19:04, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
- As there have been no meaningful attempts to address the above initial list of issues, I am delisting the article for now. It can be renominated at WP:GAN at any time, but I suggest fixing at least the above issues first. Any questions or comments should be directed to my talk page. Thanks, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs(talk) 18:42, 12 November 2009 (UTC)