Talk:Plitvice Lakes incident/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Anotherclown (talk · contribs) 04:45, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Progression

• Version of the article when originally reviewed: [1]
• Version of the article when review was closed: [2]

Technical review

• Citations: The Citation Check tool reveals no errors with reference consolidation (no action req'd).
• Disambiguations: no dab links [3] (no action req'd)
• Linkrot: external links check out [4] (no action req'd)
• Alt text: Images lack alt text so you might consider adding it [5] (not a GA req'ment - suggestion only).
• Copyright violations: The Earwig Tool reveals no issues with copyright violations or close paraphrasing [6] (no action req'd).
• Duplicate links: one duplicate link to be removed:
  • Gospić.
    • Removed.--Tomobe03 (talk) 11:23, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Criteria

• It is reasonably well written.

  a (prose): b (MoS):

  • wording seems awkward here: "... It was fought between Croatian police and Croatian Serb-established SAO Krajina armed forces at the Plitvice Lakes in Croatia on 31 March 1991..." consider instead: "...It was fought between Croatian police and armed forces from the Croatian Serb-established SAO Krajina at the Plitvice Lakes in Croatia on 31 March 1991..."
    • Amended as suggested.--Tomobe03 (talk) 11:06, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
  • wording here too: "...Croatian President Franjo Tuđman's policy of pursuing independence of Croatia." Consider instead: "...Croatian President Franjo Tuđman's policy of pursuing independence for Croatia."
    • Revised as suggested.--Tomobe03 (talk) 11:08, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
  • Knin should be wikilined at first use (currently you link the 2nd instance).
    • Moved link.--Tomobe03 (talk) 11:09, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
  • "The reserve police was..." → "The reserve police were..."
    • Fixed.--Tomobe03 (talk) 11:10, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
  • Although "Busses" is technically an alternative spelling for the plural form of "bus" I have never seen it used (and my dictionary says it has been out of favour in all major forms of English for nearly a century. Suggest using "buses" instead.
    • Revised as suggested.--Tomobe03 (talk) 11:11, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
  • "...shortly before midnight of 30/31 March 1991..." → "...shortly before midnight on 30/31 March 1991."
    • Fixed. --Tomobe03 (talk) 11:11, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
  • This is repetitive: "The following day, the SAO Krajina adopted a resolution to the effect that the SAO Krajina was incorporated into Serbia and that the Serbia's constitution and laws were in force in its territory...", specifically SAO Krjina and Serbia used several times in the same sentence. Can it be reworded?
    • I had a go at the sentence to avoid repetition. Could you please take another look at it as see if that's any improvement?--Tomobe03 (talk) 11:20, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
      • Yes that looks quite good to me. Anotherclown (talk) 13:22, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
  • This part needs some word: "Among the prisoners was Goran Hadžić, later to become the President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, but Hadžić was quickly released. His release was explained as a goodwill gesture by the authorities, but Boljkovac claims Hadžić was released because he was collaborating with the Croatian authorities in 1991." Consider instead: "Among the prisoners was Goran Hadžić, later to become the President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, although he was quickly released. Hadžić's release was explained as a goodwill gesture by the authorities, but Boljkovac claims he was released because he was collaborating with the Croatian authorities in 1991."
    • Revised as proposed.--Tomobe03 (talk) 11:22, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

• It is factually accurate and verifiable.

  a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

  • All major points cited using WP:RS.
  • No issues with OR.
  • some minor formatting issues:
    • title case needed here: "Grandits, Hannes; Leutloff, Carolin (2003). "Discourses, actors, violence: the organisation of war-escalation in the Krajina region of Croatia 1990–91"."
      • Switched to title case. The sentence case was used because the chapter title on page 23 here was presented like that. I thought it was necessary to carry the case as given there.--Tomobe03 (talk) 11:04, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
    • can issns be added for the New York Times references?
      • Added ISSNs to all newspaper refs--Tomobe03 (talk) 11:01, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

• It is broad in its coverage.

  a (major aspects): b (focused):

  • Most major points seem to be covered without going into undue detail.
  • Level of coverage seems appropriate.

• It follows the neutral point of view policy.

  a (fair representation): b (all significant views):

  • No issues that I could see although I'm no expert on this period in history.

• It is stable.

  No edit wars etc.:

  • No issues here.

• It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.

  a (tagged and captioned): b (Is illustrated with appropriate images): c (non-free images have fair use rationales): d public domain pictures appropriately demonstrate why they are public domain:

  • Images look ok to me. All seem to be PD or have valid fair use rationales and have req'd information as fair as I could tell.
  • Captions look fine.

• Overall:

  a Pass/Fail:

  • A few prose points and some minor formatting, otherwise this looks like it meets the criteria to me.
    • Thank you very much for taking time to review this article. I trust I have addressed all the issues you raised above, and one of those (repetitive sentence) may need some feedback.--Tomobe03 (talk) 11:25, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
      • Passing now, well done. Anotherclown (talk) 13:22, 26 October 2013 (UTC)