Talk:Ethiopia in the Middle Ages/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Shushugah (talk · contribs) 20:35, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

I will begin my review below. I am looking forward to working with you on bringing this article to GA status.

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

This article is almost GA status. The quality and formatting of the references are excellent. The images are all highly relevant (and well situated). I even learned about the Free Art License used for one of the images.

• I would either make Aksum and Axum consistent or mention in the beginning that the two terms are used interchangeably. It took me some time and clicking to realize they're not separate concepts.

• The main article for Judaism should be History of the Jews in Ethiopia or Kingdom of Semien not Beta Israel which deals with more modern topic.

• Slaves came from/born in Ethiopia is less demeaning than produced by. A See also Wikilink to Slavery in Ethiopia would also make sense.

• A Wikilink to first mention of Eritrea should be mentioned, along with an explanatory hatnote that it recently split from Ethiopia. When discussing the medieval context there's no need to refer to it as Ethiopia/Eritrea in 11th century. It can simply be Ethiopia or whatever other names it had at that point in time.

• A See also section would be nice, with a link to History of Ethiopia the parent topic of this article.

All in all, really nicely done! ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 20:35, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

I've made the edits you suggested; let me know if it all looks in order now. Thanks for your help! Thiqq (talk) 03:26, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

@Thiqq it was a pleasure working together and congratulations on a Good Article!