Talk:Thucydides/GA1

GA Reassessment

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This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force in an effort to ensure all listed Good articles continue to meet the Good article criteria. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, listed below. I will check back in seven days. If these issues are addressed, the article will remain listed as a Good article. Otherwise, it may be delisted (such a decision may be challenged through WP:GAR). If improved after it has been delisted, it may be nominated at WP:GAN. Feel free to drop a message on my talk page if you have any questions, and many thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this article thus far.

The article fails entirely on lack of referencing. There are too few inline citations altogether, and the ones there are mostly cite Thucydides himself or other ancient writers. The article needs far more referencing to modern scholarship to pass WP:V. As for the few references to modern scholarship, these rely excessively on one writer (Momigliano). Lampman (talk) 18:15, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Since the issues listed have not been addressed over the last week, I will now delist it. Lampman (talk) 20:52, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Is not the problem largely that there is a separate article on Thucydides' book, which does indeed cite more recent scholarship? Quite why that separate article is needed is unclear to me, since Thucydides is not an author who wrote numerous works, or of whose life a great deal is known: for most practical purposes Thucydides is his book, and vice versa. At present there is an unhappy split of discussion of his work in two places. Should not the two articles be merged, which would help address the situation that led to the delisting? — Preceding unsigned comment added by John Winterton (talk • contribs) 11:25, 20 June 2011 (UTC)