Talk:James Larkin/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: MrLinkinPark333 (talk · contribs) 20:34, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello! I'll be reviewing this article for Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/GAN Backlog Drives/January 2022 --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:34, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Unreferenced content

I'm seeing a lot of uncited content, both full & partial paragraphs. Specifically:

• Fully uncited: Early years Paragraph 1, Formation of Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and founding of the Irish Labour Party Paragraphs 2 to 4, Build up to the lock-out, and its proceedings Paragraphs 3 to 5 & also 7, Formation of the Irish Citizen Army all section, End of the lock-out Paragraphs 1 and 2, Formation of the Irish Worker League and involvement with Soviet Union Paragraph 2, Death full section, Songs full section, James Larkin Way all 1 sentence, Liverpool Irish Festival 2008 all section, People all 1 sentence

• Partially uncited: Belfast Dock Strike partial section, Build up to the lock-out, and its proceedings Paragraph 2, After the lock-out partial section, Arriving in America - activism and links to espionage Paragraph 2, Time in prison partial section, Release and departure from the United States partial section, Formation of the Irish Worker League and involvement with Soviet Union Paragraph 1 and 7, Religion and personal life Paragraph 2, Literature partial section, Songs Paragraph 2 and 3

As you can see, there's a lot of uncited content. While the partially uncited sections are concerning, sections that are fully uncited are the most concerning. Of these, I'm mostly concerned with Formation of Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and founding of the Irish Labour Party, Build up to the lock-out, and its proceedings and End of the lock-out as these have the most uncited paragraphs. There is at least 10 fully uncited paragraphs, not including ones with sections that only have 1 sentence.

There is also 3 citation needed tags (1 each at Belfast Dock Strike, Literature and Monuments). The monuments citation needed tag is the most concerning as it's from 2011.

Other issues

• I notice that there a lot of citations that are cited but do not provide page numbers. These are for Nevin 2006, O'Connor 2016, O'Connor 2002a, Dennison & McDonagh 1998, and O'Connor 1999. Of these citations, O'Connor 2002a (21) and O'Connor 1999 (19) are used the most but do not provide page numbers. This makes it difficult for verification and would need to be fixed before this article is resubmitted to GAN.
• Some sections look very hard to read and looks like a wall of text. Specifically, Arriving in America - activism and links to espionage and Formation of the Irish Worker League and involvement with Soviet Union could use some more paragraphs. This is a suggestion outside of GAN.

Overall

With the huge amount of uncited paragraphs, plus the 3 citation needed tags, I'll have to quickfail this nomination per WP:GAFAIL as "It is a long way from meeting any one of the six good article criteria". Specifically this article is a long way from passing Criteria #2 Verifiable with no original research. There are too many fully uncited paragraphs & partially uncited sections to proceed with a full indepth review. I highly recommend working through these uncited parts while also adding the missing page numbers to help fully verify this article. Once these issues are fixed, it'll help fix a lot of the outstanding issues. Please take a look at Wikipedia:Good article criteria to see the criteria that GAN reviewers are looking for. I hope this review doesn't discourage you from addressing these issues or resubmitting this article to GAN. Thank you for submitting this article to GAN! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 21:11, 2 January 2022 (UTC)