Talk:Marcus (son of Basiliscus)

Marcus (son of Basiliscus) has been listed as one of the History good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: December 28, 2022. (Reviewed version).

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GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Marcus (son of Basiliscus)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: UndercoverClassicist (talk · contribs) 16:09, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): It is factually accurate and verifiable. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): It is broad in its coverage. a (major aspects): b (focused): It follows the neutral point of view policy. Fair representation without bias: It is stable. No edit wars, etc.: It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate. a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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Smoothly passes the GA standards. It is a short article, but complies with the GA standards in all respects and reflects the quantity and focus of the material available in published sources. It is professionally laid out, clearly written, and generally puts the site's best foot forward.

The only observation I have at this stage is the danger of WP:OVERCITE: there are a lot of relatively uncontroversial statements which are cited to multiple sources, sometimes four or five of them. I checked those that I could, and removed a few citations to Elton where Elton's text did not seem to support the assertion made in the article - in each of these cases, however, Elton was one of several sources cited. Similarly, the Brooks 1893 citation was being used entirely as one of five (!) to support the statement about Verina's move against Zeno, and was cited to the entire article - I simply removed that as adding no value and reducing readability. If User:Iazyges has access to all of the sources used, it might be a good move to work out which of the citations can be done without, and cut them down for readability.

That is, however, above the requirements for GA, and so I have no problem with passing it as-is.

@UndercoverClassicist: Thank you very much for your review! Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 17:35, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]