Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Gold Coast, Queensland/archive1

Gold Coast, Queensland[edit]

I think this is one of WP's very best articals that i have seen only at B class and should be a FA. Has plently of info and images making it usful to anyone who needs to to a project on it!!! Nathannoblet 10:42, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Refer to peer review. Not well cited, mixes referencing styles, inadequate lead (see WP:LEAD), numerous short stubby paragraphs, contains external jumps, doesn't conform to WP:LAYOUT, and I fixed your 3 inline citations (footnotes follow punctuation). I didn't check the prose, because the article structure is a long ways from featured. Sandy 14:53, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Refer to peer review - Agree with the points raised above. The article does not convey a correct prioritisation of information. Example "Tourism and landmarks" begins with "Tourism is Gold Coast City's main industry." I'll take it a step further - it is one of the major tourism centres in Australia, and globally it is a desirable destination. Without tourism the Gold Coast ceases to exist -and this topic is covered near the end of the article in four inadequately written paragraphs. Meanwhile "Sport and recreation" uses 9 subheadings to discuss 9 different sports most of which are played in every city in Australia, and are not part of the Gold Coast's uniqueness or identity. Surf lifesaving / "Iron Man" carnivals are not mentioned as a sport. There are tags for 2 sections to be split into new articles, which suggests the article is far from acceptable, and there are way too many short choppy sentences, with numerous short paragraphs, and too many headers, subheaders and sub-subheaders. It has some good points, but it needs a lot of work. Rossrs 15:52, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]