Talk:University of Calcutta/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs) 17:22, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I am planning on reviewing this article for GA Status, over the next couple of days. Thank you for nominating the article for GA status. I hope I will learn some new information, and that my feedback is helpful.

If nominators or editors could refrain from updating the particular section that I am updating until it is complete, I would appreciate it to remove a edit conflict. Please address concerns in the section that has been completed above (If I've raised concerns up to references, feel free to comment on things like the lede.)

I generally provide an overview of things I read through the article on a first glance. Then do a thorough sweep of the article after the feedback is addressed. After this, I will present the pass/failure. I may use strikethrough tags when concerns are met. Even if something is obvious why my concern is met, please leave a message as courtesy.

Best of luck! you can also use the {{done}} tag to state when something is addressed. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)}

Please let me know after the review is done, if you were happy with the review! Obviously this is regarding the article's quality, however, I want to be happy and civil to all, so let me know if I have done a good job, regardless of the article's outcome.

Immediate Failures

• It is a long way from meeting any one of the six good article criteria -
• It contains copyright infringements -
• It has, or needs, cleanup banners that are unquestionably still valid. These include{{cleanup}}, {{POV}}, {{unreferenced}} or large numbers of {{citation needed}}, {{clarify}}, or similar tags. (See also {{QF-tags}}). -
• It is not stable due to edit warring on the page. -

Links

• There's 7 links that do not use a cite web format. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:33, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
  • Lee Vilenski,  Done.  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  13:42, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Prose

Lede

• Primary sources tag will need removing. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:31, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe 
• The University of Calcutta, informally known as Calcutta University (CU) - CU isn't used in lede, so shouldn't be in brackets. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:31, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done Its commonly called CU. Even I call it CU.  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe 
• collegiate public state university - WP:SEAOFBLUE. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:31, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe 
• Delink India. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:31, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe 
• Watch out for repeitition in sentences, "It was established on 24 January 1857 and was one of the first institutions in Asia to be established as a multidisciplinary, Western-style university. " - established is used twice. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:31, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  06:50, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
• "Five-Star University" - is this a quote from the Council? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:31, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  • Yes  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe 
• "A" Grade - grade. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:31, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe 
• "Centre with Potential for Excellence In Particular Area" - what's with the title case? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:31, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  • The parent body writes like this. [1]
• University Grants Commission (India) -you don't need to state India. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:31, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe 
• NIRF - not stated again in lede. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:36, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe 
• Ministry of Human Resource Development (now Ministry of Education) - you don't need to say what it is now in the lede. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:36, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe 
• heads of state, heads of government - combine to avoid repetition. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:36, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  20:36, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
• Dirac medal - do we have a link? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:36, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe 
• Nobel laureates is linked twice with different results? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:36, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  20:34, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
• National Eligibility Test The University of Calcutta - missing something here. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:36, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  20:38, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
• The vice-chancellor is already cited in body, so doesn't need to be in infobox as well. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:37, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  06:55, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
• The students and such cited in the infobox need some sort of qualifier, surely this isn't up to date! Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:37, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  • That changes every year. But, this year's admissions aren't complete yet. Also, the cited website doesn't provide any month/year data.  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  06:59, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
    • Then when is it to date with? At the moment is just a raw number - we need to say when the statistics were correct in the infobox. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:22, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
      • I have mentioned "As of 2019"  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  15:16, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

General

• Looking at the article, the paragraph structure is all off. There are some HUGE paragraphs here. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:44, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  • Pls mark where the paras can be broken.  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  20:47, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
    • I have done this for you. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:30, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
      • Thanks  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  15:33, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
• Small sections aren't always suitable, check and see if you need them. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:44, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
• (now Kolkata), Madras (now Chennai) and Bombay (now Mumbai) - don't need to mention what they are now, you have linked. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:44, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  20:43, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
• The above is true throughout the article. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:44, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  20:45, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
• the whole Vice-chancellors section is probably out of place. Super crufty to me. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:44, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  • Better to move it to a separate page  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  20:29, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
    •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  07:10, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
• What's with the gallery? It's really out of place. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:44, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done removed the gallery. Lee Vilenski,  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  16:03, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
• See also sections shouldn't have items you have already linked to in the article, such as History of the University of Calcutta. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:44, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  20:40, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
• What is the significance of the "seal" section? There's six, but no commentary as to why we have these images. Also, do we know when these were created? Acording to the images, they were all created on 1 January 1857, which is clearly wrong Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:47, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done corrected the dates and added in that section.  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  11:21, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
    • This issue is that if it was created in the 1900s, it's a copyright violation. Such as [2]. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:37, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
      • no info available in the website, except "1930s".  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  15:11, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
• A number of duplinks exist, need fixing. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:50, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
• In Jurisdiction, why have such a long list for affiliated colleges? This isn't a full list, so why list so many? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:50, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  • Listed some of the oldest ones, as per the website. Saw a college list in University of Oxford, so I added here also.  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe 
    • Yeah, cull the list. Maybe list three of the oldest. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:25, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
      • Reduced this. Kept the most notable colleges.  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  15:32, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
• Student life is such a tiny section, I'm not sure this is BROAD enough. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:50, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  • Couldn't find anything else. Lack of RS.  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  20:22, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
• There is a quote box all written in (I assume) Sanscript. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:50, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
  • It's in Bangla  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  20:32, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
    • So, why on earth do we have it? This is the english language wikipedia. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:29, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
      •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  15:08, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
• Honoris Causa

For more details on this topic, see Honoris Causa of the University of Calcutta. - huh? Why have a section on this then? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:50, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

• Removed.  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe 

• BTW, I saw something like this in a FA.  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  03:00, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

• The see also section should be not linked in the article. Asutosh Museum of Indian Art is mentioned in the article. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:32, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
  •  Done  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  15:09, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

GA Review

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Review meta comments

• I'll begin the review as soon as I can! If you fancy returning the favour, I have a list of nominations for review at WP:GAN and WP:FAC, respectively. I'd be very grateful if you were to complete one of these if you get time. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:22, 14 October 2020 (UTC)