Talk:British Bangladeshis/GA2

GA Review

I would like to nominate this article to a GA standard, because I believe it contains many information and contains all aspects of the international ethnic group. It will help readers who are looking through this ethnic group, by looking at the whole history about it, from Brick Lane to formations of present gangs. It provides information to the culture, religion and how business is managed by the people, and contains many important information of Demographics, and has been developed to it's best I believe. Please add any additional comments regarding on the topic, Thanks. TheGreenEditor 10:35, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Review

An interesting and informative article which deserves GA status. I have a few comments on how the article could be improved.

• The article is probably too long. Guidelines suggest a page size of 30-50kB and this article far exceeds this. Consider putting some sections into new articles.
• Some words were not wikified that I might have expected to be. Example include, diaspora which I have just wikified, British India, 1950s, ... This is just a suggestion but don't go overboard because having too many links can affect readability. On the other hand there is a nice scattering of redlinks to encourage people to start new articles.
• Neutral tone: some sentences are not neutral. An example from the first paragraph might be The community is thriving in the capital. This is an opinion rather than a verifiable fact. A source is cited in that sentence so it would be fine to quote from it: According to XXX, the community is thriving in the capital. Done
• There are several examples of sweeping statements such as But when they arrived they faced many problems. A better way to phrase it might be Various problems were experienced by many of the immigrants. Another example: The hostility and social deprivation they faced meant they did not feel accepted as British. You should to be careful not to generalise too much without making it clear that it is a generalisation. Done
• All the sections are well written and relevant to the topic.
• There are a lot of pictures and they all seem to be appropriate and be okay with the copyright status, etc.
• In many cases The Banglasheshis... is used when perhaps The is not needed. For example Bangladeshis have the highest rates of illnesses in the UK, as of 2001. sounds better to my ear. Done
• Referencing is excellent throughout the article.

The only issues above which are stopping me promoting the article are the third and fourth bullet points, which are verging on bias. I shall put the review on hold till these are addresses. The other points can perhaps be considered later. MSGJ (talk) 21:25, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

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Promoted

All the GA issues seem to be resolved, so I have promoted the article to GA status. Congratulations to TheGreenEditor for all his hard work. Getting this to featured status will likely require a huge amount of work but there is no reason why it shouldn't get there. MSGJ (talk) 11:07, 23 August 2008 (UTC)