Talk:History of the Internet/GA1

GA Reassessment

In order to uphold the quality of Wikipedia:Good articles, all articles listed as Good articles are being reviewed against the GA criteria as part of the GA project quality task force. While all the hard work that has gone into this article is appreciated, unfortunately, as of October 16, 2008, this article fails to satisfy the criteria, as detailed below. For that reason, the article has been delisted from WP:GA. However, if improvements are made bringing the article up to standards, the article may be nominated at WP:GAN. If you feel this decision has been made in error, you may seek remediation at WP:GAR.

• Several substantial sections of this article are completely uncited, and many more are inadequately cited. For instance, Dot-com bubble, Worldwide Online Population Forecast, Search engines, IETF and a standard for standards, and ARPANET to Several Federal Wide Area Networks: MILNET, NSI, and NSFNet.

• There are many apparent quotations, such as "Penetration levels similar to North America's are found in Scandinavia and bigger Western European nations such as the United Kingdom and Germany, but JupiterResearch says that a number of Central European countries 'are relative Internet laggards.'" 2b of the good article criteria demands that direct quotations must be sourced with inline citations.

• There has been a request for citation tag in From gopher to the WWW since February 2007.

• There are several external links in the body of the text, for instance in Dot-com bubble. External links should only appear in an External links section.

• There are too many very short paragraphs in some sections, for instance Worldwide Online Population Forecast.

• There are at least two dead links.[1]

--Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 21:08, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Please review Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Jnc and Barberio and revert any changes that Barberio made that Jnc did not like only after you review the material yourself. User:Jnc is Noel Chiappa, the first name on the MIT line on the plaque (image added to article). Jnc left Wikipedia because nobody seemed to care and that just kill me. It shortens my life because it is due to ignorance. Please show him that we do care and maybe he will back. Please.--00:26, 9 November 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ethics2med (talk • contribs)

Noel did not want the article as it existed when it first received it's good-article status. The article that received the Good Article notice was the version after my re-write. What Noel wanted to exclude from the article, included X.25, UUCP, IPSS and so on. Now, the article currently needs work not so much in it's substantial content, but copy-editing, finding or updating references, removing some recent edits that added incorrect material, oand improving added material that needs to be better presented. --Barberio (talk) 13:52, 27 May 2009 (UTC)