Talk:Mawza Exile

Mawza Exile was nominated as a History good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (January 29, 2023, reviewed version). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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Question

I noticed where an editor made improvements on the article "Mawza exile," but also wrote that he had "Preemptively archived with the Internet Archive and linked to page number." What does this refer to?-Davidbena (talk) 23:47, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What preemptive archival with the Internet Archive did was change the link from http://www.ybz.org.il/_Uploads/dbsArticles/sefunotII_OCR.pdf to https://web.archive.org/web/20141022152755/http://www.ybz.org.il/_Uploads/dbsArticles/sefunotII_OCR.pdf. This is the same thing, but at a link preserved by https://archive.org/web/. This prevents link rot in which the original link is deleted, moved, or the website goes down etc. - So if and when that happens the Wikipedia link will still work as intended.

Linked to page number = Adding "#page=270" (or a different number) to the end of the URL linking to a PDF. What this means is that if this PDF is loaded in an internet browser, the computer "should" automatically turn to this page of the PDF numbering when the PDF finishes loading. This is intended to make things easier for the reader. Contributor613 (talk) 23:50, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation!Davidbena (talk) 17:51, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

Unsuccessful. Z1720 (talk) 22:03, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Reviewer: Z1720 (talk · contribs) 22:02, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Davidbena: Unfortunately, I am going to quick fail this article's GAN. I am concerned about the extensive use of block quotes and long excerpts from sources. Wikipedia articles should use quotes sparingly and put the quotes within context. This article has many excepts and, as a reader who has no background information on this topic, I do not understand the context of these quotes or why they are important. I suggest that the quotes be summarised and put in context of the event, and the article should rely on WP:WIKIVOICE instead of first-hand accounts. The article also does not need the full text of the poems and testimony, and instead their relationship to the topic should be highlighted. Once these are complete, please feel free to renominate the article. Z1720 (talk) 22:02, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.