Wikipedia:Peer review/Ottoman Empire/archive1

Ottoman Empire

• A script has been used to generate a semi-automated review of the article for issues relating to grammar and house style; it can be found on the automated peer review page for December 2008.

This peer review discussion has been closed.
I've listed this article for peer review because… I was wondering what specific areas of this article could use improvement.

Thanks, Master&Expert (Talk) 01:02, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Well, that's weird. I'm positive I commented on this PR yesterday. O.o Oh well. Just a few quick general observations:

• It's my understanding that there shouldn't be any citations in the lead. As the lead is supposed to summarise the content of the article, there shouldn't be any new information introduced in there, so the cites go in the body of the article.
• There are large sections of the article without any citations whatsoever. There's a lot of great detail in there, but I think you really need to focus on getting those references to back it up.
• Also make sure your refs are formatted consistently - WP:CITET might be a help here.
• The article is very long. Perhaps it might be a good idea to move some of the information off into a new History of the Ottoman Empire article?
• Also, some of the sections are longer than the main articles they're summarising - like Decline of the Ottoman Empire. Maybe again some of the info in this article could be moved over there.
• There are some very useful suggestions in the automated PR here and in the GA reassessment that resulted in its delisting here.

Hope that's of some help! -Shoemoney2night (talk) 06:05, 17 December 2008 (UTC)