Talk:Golaghat/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Sainsf (talk · contribs) 12:38, 18 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Always happy to review articles on Indian places :) I will post all my comments within a week. Cheers, Sainsf (talk · contribs) 12:38, 18 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs quite some work before it can be promoted. Here are a few major issues:

Copyvio: Though there are no glaring examples, a few lines appear to be copied verbatim from certain websites –

The six-year Assam Agitation ended with the signing of the Assam Accord on Independence Day in 1985. The leaders of the Assam Agitation formed the AGP on October 14, 1985, in Golaghat and the party later that year overthrew the Congress government led by late Hiteshwar Saikia. Mostly matches what is written here [1]
Golaghat has always been playing a significant role in the tea industry of Assam. There is a saying that one can’t make bad tea in Golaghat belt. The small tea growers’ movement was also started from Golaghat district. As per the latest statistics, Golaghat has the third highest number of small tea growers (STGs) and third highest number of bought leaf factories (BLFs) in Assam. I have not checked who said this first, but this 2011 blog seems to me the original.
The cultural complex, spread over 23 bighas, houses an air-conditioned auditorium, a tourist lodge, boating facility, an amusement park and restaurants from [2]

Duplinks: Quite a few. Check them by this tool and link only on first mention.

Sourcing: Looks good though some citations need better formatting. The main problem is many parts of the article lack inline citations.

Prose: A not-so-detailed read shows that in many places the prose needs to comply with the MOS (ghat meaning the landing point of river ferry or enclosure for boats the second instance of italics should be removed), needs rephrasing (take this long sentence for instance: One of the earliest tea urban centres in Assam that has been the headquarters of the oldest subdivision for over 182–183 years since 1839, the local government body, Golaghat Municipal Board (GMB), was set up in 1920, becoming a long-established civic body of the state, formed before independent India), and probably reogranization (many sections are tiny and do not need to be independent sections at all, can be merged for a better summary). The lead especially needs a lot of work to follow proper summary style.

Coverage: I am not sure this article covers many important topics in detail given the extremely short sections in most places. Needs quite a bit of work to compile resources for all the topics and write and arrange them properly throughout such a long article.

@OmerMarcel: As you can see the article does not seem to be in good shape for promotion. Keeping the GA review open while improving it sounds like a bad idea to me. I would consider a quick fail and renomination once the above issues are fixed. Let me know what you think about this within a week.. if there is no response by then I will fail this. Cheers, Sainsf (talk · contribs) 07:25, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Sainsf:

Thanks very much for taking the time to go through the article and providing your valuable feedback! Glad to hear that you like reviewing India-based articles.

I am pleased to be made aware of the criteria based on which the article has been assessed, as I have always been curious to know what more could be done to promote the article to its next level.

That said, I am now going to work on the points raised and will leverage the tools stated (thanks for letting me know!), and hopefully will be able to make those refinements. I do agree that the article should be taken out of the GA nomination for now (hope that a GA fail doesn't impact the candidature for a future renomination!). I will renominate the article once I feel the above points have been satisfactorily addressed but until that time, I might sporadically reach out to you for pointers (hope that wouldn't be a problem!). Only challenge I foresee at this stage is to increase coverage for some of the short sections as information and literature exists in Assamese but not adequately in English. But I think consolidating these short sections into smaller paragraphs (like in the case of Clwyd), will make it well packaged for GA resubmission.

Thanks again! OmerMarcel (talk) 01:31, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@OmerMarcel: I am very happy to see you so motivated about this article. There is no problem in failing this and renominating later, in fact it would be the best thing to do right now as you get ample time to improve it without the stress of a long and painful review in the background. You can reach out to me anytime for help with this, but make sure to work on this and make it a success, because your later nominations will be heavily benefiting from that. For a start, the tools are available in the GA toolbox you see to the right (except the duplinks tool, which is immensely helpful btw) . Your idea about the sections is correct, too many sections don't look good, and are often unnecessary if you can just say a line or two to wrap up their material and combine those lines into paragraphs. If you have trouble with Assamese maybe contact some other editor familiar with the language or try to extract as much as you can from English sources. I would recommend going through good articles on Indian places (Puri is an excellent one that I reviewed) that you can find here. These should be enough to give you a head start into this, and again don't hesitate to contact me :) So I will fail this nomination for now, and wish you all the best! Sainsf (talk · contribs) 01:50, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]