Talk:Free State of Galveston/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Pyrotec (talk) 10:53, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Starting review. Pyrotec (talk) 10:53, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Initial comments

I've skim-read through the article a couple of times. It seems to be at or about the right level of a GA; and it seems to be well referenced and well-illustrated. I will now do a more detailed check, section by section, but leaving the WP:lead until last, against the requirements of WP:WIAGA.

I expect to find a few minor problems, but hopefully nothing major. Pyrotec (talk) 11:58, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

• This is quite a good article. As I suspected, just a few minor problems:

• A number of journal (magaine) article were just cited with an author, article title, mazagine title, date and page or page numbers. Volume and Issue numbers should also be used (where appropriate & these do appear in the Google books links) - I think that I have caught and corrected most, if not all, of them.
• Not knowing anything about Galveston, I picked up that it was an island but just made the assumption that it was on a river. Several of the pictures showed that it was in Gulf of Mexico, and that Galveston Bay is "behind" it. Neither of these facts appear in the text of the article.

Pyrotec (talk) 12:51, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Overall summary

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

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A wide-ranging, well-referenced, well-illustrated article.

1. Is it reasonably well written?

   A. Prose quality:

   B. MoS compliance:

2. Is it factually accurate and verifiable?

   A. References to sources:

   Well-referenced.

   B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:

   Well-referenced.

   C. No original research:

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

   A. Major aspects:

   B. Focused:

4. Is it neutral?

   Fair representation without bias:

5. Is it stable?

   No edit wars, etc:

6. Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?

   A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:

   Well-illustrated.

   B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:

   Well-illustrated.

7. Overall:

   Pass or Fail:

Congratulations on the quality of the article. I'm awarding it GA-status. Pyrotec (talk) 13:07, 29 November 2009 (UTC)