Talk:Wujing Zongyao/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Anotherclown (talk · contribs) 11:41, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Progression

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

Preliminary comments

• This articles looks in good shape to me. Some brief comments before I read over the whole thing:
  • I added some missing bibliographic details using Worldcat.org - my edits are here [3].
  • Could a reference pls be provided for the outstanding citation needed tag? References at Zhu Yu (author) could probably be used to satisfy this.
  • There are a few books listed in the references section which do not appear to have been used as short citations, by convention these should probably be moved to a "further reading" section (for instance Jiasheng and Liang)
  • Is Jiasheng a Chinese language work? If so you probably should use the language= field in the cite book template (see the documentation here Template:Cite book). Likewise for any other foreign language works.
  • Hopefully I should be able to read over this tomorrow and post the remainder of the review (depending on work and study commitments). Anotherclown (talk) 12:38, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
    •  Done - Gday I've gone ahead and done these myself in the interests of moving the review forward. If you disagree with anything I've done pls let me know and we can discuss. Thanks. Anotherclown (talk) 10:15, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Technical review

• Citations: The Citation Check tool reveals no issues with reference consolidation (no action req'd)
• Disambiguations: no dab links [4] (no action req'd).
• Linkrot: no dead links [5] (no action req'd)
• Alt text: images lack alt text so you might consider adding it [6] (suggestion only - not a GA criteria).
• Copyright violations: The Earwig Tool reveals no issues with copyright violations or close paraphrasing (only picks up a Wiki mirror) [7] (no action req'd).
• Duplicate links: no duplicate links to be removed (no action req'd).

Criteria

• It is reasonably well written.

  a (prose): b (MoS):

  • Prose looks fine, I did a copy-edit and fixed a few MOS issues [8].

• It is factually accurate and verifiable.

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

  • The article looks well referenced to WP:RS.
  • No issues with OR I could see.

• It is broad in its coverage.

  a (major aspects): b (focused):

  • Is there any information on what impact the book had? If not then its not an issue.

• It follows the neutral point of view policy.

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

  • All major viewpoints seem to be covered.

• 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:

  • File:Ming-marine-compass.jpg - seems to lack any source information. Is this available?
  • File:Trebuchet1-intransit.jpg - lacks information on when first published.
  • Captions look fine.

• Overall:

  a Pass/Fail:

  • This article looks very good to me. I worked through most of the minor issues I saw with it myself; however, there are a couple of points re coverage and the images above that are outstanding. If you could pls have a look at those and let me know how you go there shouldn't be anything else stopping this from being promoted. Thanks. Anotherclown (talk) 10:56, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you for the review. I've fixed the description of the trebuchet image, and I'm looking for the source of the compass image.--Khanate General ☪ talk ^{project mongol conquests} 11:18, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

• I've contacted User:Gisling about the source of the compass diagram. Gisling uploaded the image back in 2005, but he's still sporadically active on Wikipedia.--Khanate General ☪ talk ^{project mongol conquests} 02:23, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
• If Gisling doesn't respond within the next week, I'll find a replacement for the image.--Khanate General ☪ talk ^{project mongol conquests} 06:55, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

• Gday. No worries, thanks for the update. I'll wait out. Anotherclown (talk) 08:55, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

• @Khanate General: - Hello again. Have you had any luck with this? Thanks. Anotherclown (talk) 00:13, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

• Image issue seems to have been resolved. Passing now. Anotherclown (talk) 09:02, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you!--Khanate General ☪ talk ^{project mongol conquests} 18:16, 21 October 2015 (UTC)