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Readers' advisory was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
July 17, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
August 5, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former good article nominee

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GA Review[edit]

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Hi. I'm reviewing this article for GA promotion. Intothewoods29 (talk) 18:30, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. This is definately not a GA. I'm putting it on hold, but if nothing is done soon, I'm just going to fail the nomination. Here are some recommendations that are definately needed:

Have the two people in the first image given their permission? (see tag on picture page).
Starting out with a long quote isn't as good as summarizing the quote.
You title a section Opposing Viewpoints on the Merits of Different Types of Readers' Advisory, but it's just about two views on the timeline of readers' advisory, not the merits of different types.
Also, you discuss two different timelines, and then you use a third timeline (1870-1980 and 1980-2000s)! Choose one and run with it!

Parenthesis around the history section titles = not needed

fixed JohnRussell (talk) 00:23, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You start timeline section one with 1870, but your earliest reference is 1897.
Incorporate the quote at the end of "current interest"! Summarize it or something!
No refs in direct readers' advisory!
I don't like "Questions to consider asking in the readers' advisory interview". It sounds like it's asking the reader questions. Also, it's a bit out of place; consider putting the section somewhere better or incorporate it into another section. Also, no refs in this section.

*Red links in the Resource sections! GAH!

Update: I got yelled at a couple of times for this. Apparently red links are fine to leave. :)

Get rid of any "floating quotes" (term coined by me, just now), like the one at the end of Internet Resources
A few of your resources are red-links! That's bad!
There's an amazon.com ad page as one of your refs. (#5)
I'm not sure what all of the links to Library Unlimited contribute to the article.
A lot of your refs are just ads for books; they're not directly related to readers' advisory.
For refs like #45, on the article page write what library catalog it's from.

Just read through the article and work on clarifying it. It shouldn't be too hard to improve this; some work has been done. :) Intothewoods29 (talk) 18:51, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Update

Hey, I went over WP:LEAD, and it suggests that the lead be two or three paragraphs for an article of this length. Since there is a lot of work still to be done on this article before it is promoted to GA, I'm delisting it from WP:GAC for now. Sorry. Feel free to promote it another time! Intothewoods29 (talk) 16:34, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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