Talk:Deogarh, Uttar Pradesh/GA2

GA Reassessment

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It clearly fails the 3rd criteria, the article is nowhere "broad in coverage". The history section is not clear, it ends till the Gupta period which end in around sixth century AD, where is the rest of the history? The article also does not have other important details like climate etc which are required for an article of a city. RRD13 দেবজ্যোতি (talk) 07:01, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Resuming reassessment

Although Royrobdeb has not edited on Wikipedia for four months, this individual reassessment should continue because the article clearly needs significant work to meet the GA criteria. I have checked, and no such work has been done since this was opened 15 months ago.

There are a number of issues beyond those raised by Royroydeb relating to the broadness criteria—the incomplete history details and the lack of many areas of coverage typical to a GA (which were alluded to in the original GA review, oddly enough). These additional issues include:

• image usage, which seems excessive generally, and at least three images are used more than once, which is clearly inappropriate
  • Images have been deleted now by Titodutta
    • Not all of them. And the captions need to be checked: some spell names differently from the text, and some need to be reformatted. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:45, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
• the Demographics section is out of date—while the 2011 census is mentioned in the infobox, the actual text refers only to the 1991 and 2001 censuses
  • It has now been updated with 2011 census
• several paragraphs are completely unsourced in the Monuments section
  • I will address these issues and others mentioned above soon. I am unable to find the original file which had alll the references. I am now making a fresh search.

I plan to allow the standard seven days for these issues to be addressed, though if work is in progress, since there is a lot to do, I will naturally extend the time. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:59, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

• BlueMoonset A few issues have been addressed but I will attend to other issues after I find my original file or by fresh google search.Nvvchar. 08:29, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

• Thanks for letting me know, Nvvchar. There's more to do with the images, which I've noted above. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:46, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

• BlueMoonset Un-referenced paragraphs have been cited now and some text deleted in the absence of a verifiable reference. I have removed an img and also checked and corrected the captions. I have added the weather data of Laitpur town which is the closest to Deogarh as no seperate weather data is avaialble for the village. Pl see.Nvvchar. 08:17, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Closing reassessment

Unfortunately, while Nvvchar did address some sourcing issues, he has since retired from Wikipedia leaving other issues, particularly the broadness one, undone. Indeed, there might not be the necessary amount of available information about the village available: education, for example. The weather data for Lalitpur is simply not appropriate, being of another town 33 km away and at twice the elevation of Deogarh, which can have a significant effect on temperature and precipitation.

I consulted with Dr. Blofeld on his talk page, who jointly expanded the article from a tiny stub with Nvvchar, and his opinion is that the article is not at GA-quality at present. Also, I think if there's still a lot of issues it would be best to delist. Since there are a lot of issues remaining, including some prose ones, I am going to close this reassessment as "delisted". BlueMoonset (talk) 21:25, 4 September 2016 (UTC)