Talk:Phla–Pherá languages/GA1

GA Reassessment

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This article has major issues, but it might be that they can be fixed. Unfortunately, there are no clear standards for language group articles by WP languages, but at least so much can be said:

• There is no infobox.
• Most of the necessary references are present, but in Geography and demography some are missing, so from this point of view this article actually meets B class standards, but not GA standards.
• The article doesn't contain any information on the typological features of the languages in question, their divergence and convergence.
• While the discussion of classificational criteria might be sufficient for an article on a single language, it is far too short for an article that is designed to mainly deal with this issue. Here, not only the proposals but their data basis have to be presented in detail.

I fancy that there might be some more issues, but as at least the third and forth issue are on their own sufficient to delist this article (and I would be inclined to rate it as C class at the moment), I'll leave it at that for the time being to see whether these issues can be addressed. G Purevdorj (talk) 09:05, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

I largely agree with these concerns, and since I've never been very happy with the GA idea I don't oppose the article being delisted. As it stands, the article is mainly about the classification and not so much about the typology. This is partly due to the scarce resources that are available. It deserves to be improved, so here's to hoping that someone will come along to do the job. I won't be able to do any more work on it anytime soonish, unfortunately. — mark ✎ 13:53, 20 May 2009 (UTC)