Talk:Khudai Khidmatgar/GA1

GA Reassessment

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I will be doing the GA Reassessment on this article as part of the GA Sweeps project. I am holding the article up to the GA Criteria. I find that the article does not meet the GA Criteria in the following ways:

• MOS compliance:

• The lead is too short per WP:LEAD. This was brought up in the original GA nomination but not fixed. For an article of this length at least two or even three paragraphs is acceptable. The lead is to be a summary of the article and should reference each point in the article.
• The titles of sections and sub sections are not to be capitalized (except for the first word or proper names).

• Images

• The image at the top of the article is copyrighted and should be removed. The Fair Use rationale is not sufficient to justify its use. There are two free images in the article, one of which could replace it.

• References:

• The following sections have no references: Origins, The Red Shirts sub sections Structure and Ideology, Relationship with the Indian national congress, From Mass movement to political party, and The Oath of the Khudai Khidmatgar. This roughly half of the article and is a major weakness in this article. More sources are required to support the assertions in this article.
• In the notes section Behroz Khan (2004) link [6] is a dead link and should be fixed.
• In the external links section: Pashtun Code and Interview and Ghaffar Khan are both dead and will need to be fixed or removed.
• Ref [9] links to Harrapa website but not to the Ghani Khan interview.
• The format of the references is haphazard with no real continuity. Please see WP:CITE for format suggestions. The references should all match each other in format.

• For example, there is a book in ref [4] that should be in the Notes section with the other books.
• Ref [21] and [22] start with "Source", why?

• Please follow the reference templates for citing news, books, and websites. IMO all the references will need to be redone to conform to current MOS standards.

• POV

• I'm concerned about the POV of this paragraph: "Khan always considered trials and tribulations, which he underwent ceaselessly, as the means by which Almighty Allah meant to fashion his life for better things. Being a great humanist, he ardently believed that human nature was not so depraved as to hinder it from respecting goodness in others. It is easy to look down on others but to make an estimate of our failing is difficult. Allah's blessings according to Bacha khan are marked for those, who submit to Allah's will and serve Almighty Allah through selfless activities for the overall good of humanity at large irrespective of caste, colour, race or religions." This appears to be a glorification and validation of Khan's work rather than a simple reporting of what happened.

Due to the myriad of problems with this article and the amount of work that will be necessary to bring it up to GA standards I am delisting this article from GA status. Should someone wish to undertake an overhaul of the article I feel it would be a worthy effort. When ready please submit the article to WP:GAC. Should editors have questions or concerns please contact me at my talk page. H1nkles (talk) 20:44, 3 June 2009 (UTC)