Talk:Iceland hotspot/GA1

GA Reassessment

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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 May 10, 2009, 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. Sasata (talk) 06:58, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

• Article is poorly referenced, with only one in-line citation. There is a short list of research papers in the "Further reading" section, but it's unclear if any information from those papers were used in this article.
• Several weasel phrases especially need to be cited, eg. "It is believed that...", "Studies suggest that...", "It is suggested that..."
• Additionally, the article is not broad in its coverage, and does not represent a good overview of the information available on the topic. A quick scan of the ISI Web of Knowledge (a scholarly research database) shows there are dozens of research papers available about the Icelandic Hotspot that should be used as source material for this article.