Wikipedia:Peer review/Rio de Janeiro/archive1

Rio de Janeiro

Requesting a new peer review now that Rio de Janeiro has been promoted to WP:GA and looking to bring it up to WP:FA status as soon as we can. Any criticism or praise is very welcome and we, the editors of the Rio de Janeiro article, already have some ideas about what to start doing which are at the bottom of Talk:Rio de Janeiro but we need more ideas, ideally in list form. Thank you very much for your time and we hope to hear from someone soon. Felipe C.S ^{( talk )} 17:55, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see automated peer review suggestions here. Thanks, APR _t 00:38, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Before submitting to FAC consider the following points:
- There are a lot of lists, where prose is encouraged
- There is a large gallery, where that is usually shifted to the Commons
- Famous Cariocas has no references, and it should explain what the relationship between the city and person is (ie. born there, raised there, lived 10, 20...50 years)
- The Miscellaneous section looks like trivia. If it is important then integrate it into the article, if its trivial then remove it.
- Watch out for editorializing, like "beach hosts one of the world's most spectacular New Year's Eve parties" and "The Carnival brings a lot of people, good food..."
- The article could also address demographics, government and what services they provide, or items on infrastructure like fire departments, hospitals, drinking water, sewers, etc. --maclean 20:09, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Review by Alan.ca

Condense the article. It is definitely too long, if there is enough referenced material you could branch into other articles.
Cite references for the factual information that is chosen to remain. For an article that is 48 kilobytes long, one would expect more references.
Remove the gallery, a small box referring to an image category on commons will suffice.
Photographs should not contains sentences, but sentences should refer to summarily named images.
Famous Cariocas has to go. Make a separate article if the material has references to back it up.
History section: sum it up and possibly fork the content to the history article.
Remove broken/red wikilinks
When the overhaul is complete, apply the WP:LEAD guideline and write a good introduction.
Strategic advice: remove all 90 day stale conversations from the discussion page to revitalize discussion.

Alan.ca (talk) 08:15, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]