Talk:Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science/GA2

GA Review

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Reviewer: Arctic Night 02:32, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I'm undertaking a review of this article at the moment and will provide some general comments here. I will provide my adjudication once all of those comments have been given. Arctic Night 02:33, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

• The lead of this article needs to be much longer - see WP:LEAD. Lead sections should be a general overview of the article. - done
• The first paragraph of the History section is not sourced. It needs to be. - done
• Parts of the 'Description' section need to be sourced. - I am working on the sourcing of the "Academics" section.
• Your referencing is, while not fantastic when it comes to sourcing every single item in the article, very consistent, and I commend this article's editors on this. It's always great to see the use of the cite- templates, and no 'free styling' is present as far as I can see!
• The entire article needs a good copy-edit. While I have done a little copy-editing during the course of my review, there are a few spots where there isn't a comma and there should be, etc. Some sentences should also be reworded for flow - try to cut down on the use of brackets. I know brackets are only used rarely in this article, but when they are used, it does disrupt flow.
• Please explain specific terms when you use them. "actuated by the Dade delegation" makes no sense to me, as I do not know what the Dade delegation is.

I have changed this a bit. It is widely known that a delegation is the set of legislators representing a particular area. For example, the Illinois delegation to Congress means all of the members of the House and Senate from the State of Illinois.

• The History section needs a good wikilinking. There is only one wikilink in that entire section, while there are several things that could be wikilinked there. - done
• The capitalisation of 'Gulf Oil Spill' should be constant. It isn't in this article. - I am standardizing on just Capital "G" because Gulf of Mexico is a proper name.
• There are a lot of references in this article. I would recommend separating the references into two columns - there is a template to do this, but I can't remember what it is.
• I'm also a little concerned by the number of University of Miami sources in the article. Aren't there any more secondary sources you could use?

I will look again.

For the time being, I am going to put this article on hold for seven days to give editors a chance to come along and respond to the concerns I have highlighted here. If I do not receive a response within seven days, I will be left with no choice but to fail the article. If I do not respond myself after a reasonable period of time should you feel you have addressed these issues, please use the 'email me' function to contact me, as I often go offline for periods of time. Arctic Night 02:45, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

I will get working on your concerns. Just as a reminder, the GA criteria do not require a footnote in each paragraph, just "provides in-line citations from reliable sources for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged" Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 04:12, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, but it is expected of GA nominations that they are fully sourced. I am not going to be able to pass it without more sources. Arctic Night 12:57, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

NB: Racepacket has been indefinitely blocked for copyvios,[1] including some in this article. So i suggest that you fail immediately. Jezhotwells (talk) 16:27, 6 February 2011 (UTC) User:Ryulong established that Jezhotwells' copying concern resulted from another website copying from this Wikipedia article. We shall restart the GA review process. Racepacket (talk) 00:14, 1 March 2011 (UTC)