Talk:Rome, Georgia/GA1

GA Review

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Hi. This article does not yet meet GA standards for the following reasons:

• The prose is, in general, not very good. For example, the first phrase of the article, "Nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains", is far too poetic and should be more formal.
• The lead should be rewritten to conform to WP:LEAD. That is to say that the lead should summarize the entire article.
• Citations are thin in areas. Every single fact needs to have a citation (especially dates, numbers, etc.), which means that there should at least be one citation per paragraph. Some sections have no citation at all.
• References need to be formatted properly. I recommend using the Cite template as opposed to trying to write your own. The "refTools" tool under My Preferences -> Gadgets is very simple to use and simply requires that you fill in the blanks. Each web reference should have at least a title, publisher, and access date. It's not necessary to provide an annotated bibliography like has been added to some references.
• Lists and charts should be transformed into written prose.
• Article sections should generally follow the guidelines provided at WP:USCITY.
• External links should not be present directly in the text.
• Do not WikiLink section headers.
• Images should not be left-aligned under headers and should not be hard-sized under 300px. Vertical images should be marked as "upright" per WP:MOS#IMAGES.
• Galleries should not be present. Either work the images into the article text or remove the images.

I know this is a lot of work, but you're off to a really great start. Feel free to ask me any questions. I will have this GA review watchlisted. Best, epicAdam^(talk) 01:54, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Eric, those are all excellent suggestions. Unfortunately, I won't have much time for editing for at least the next several months. Since no one else is editing much, I'm going to remove Rome from the GA review request until all these issues have effectively been dealt with. It will take awhile, but we'll eventually get it there. JD Lambert^(T|C) 22:03, 29 December 2008 (UTC)