Wikipedia:Peer review/GreenLeft/archive1
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I've listed this article for peer review because after working out a basic structure for Dutch party articles, expanding them and this party in particular, working on images and tables, and getting it fully referenced, I was wondering what the community felt, about this article specifically and the structure in general. Not knowing the procedure I put it up for Wikipedia:Good articles instead, and they advised me to take it to peer review here first.
Thanks, C mon (talk) 17:12, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Ruhrfisch comments: Interesting article, here are some suggestions for improving it to GA and beyond:
- A model article is often usful to follow for ideas, style, structure, etc. I note that Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago) is a FA, and there are some GAs such as Green Party of Canada that may be useful models
- The lead needs to be expanded to conform to WP:LEAD
- Please do not include symbols in the headers such as "&", spell out "and" instead
- The article has a lot of information, but needs a copyedit for grammar and to read / flow more smoothly. Try asking WP:LOCE or one of the copyeditors at WP:PRV
- Watch out for unclear language: example Before the election of 1986 the CPN and the PPR wanted to form an electoral alliance with the PSP. This led to a crisis within the party... Which party? The rpeceding sentence just named three parties
- People without a parliamentary system might not understand the numbers at the beginning of the "1989-1994" (that parties within the alliance were assigned numbers in the list: The PPR which had been the largest party in 1986 got the top candidate (Ria Beckers) and the number five, the PSP the numbers two and six...'). Provide context for the reader - see WP:PCR
- In the table in Representation & Support, I would explain the abbreviations, so In this table the election results of the GreenLeft in Tweede Kamer (TK), Eerste Kamer (EK), European (EP) and provincial (PS) elections is represented...
- I am also uncertain about using the Dutch terms in the table - for example the Dutch for Party chair is Partijvoorzitter but "Party Chair" is used in the table. Since this is the English Wikipedia I think I would use the English names for "Fractievoorzitter" and "Lijsttrekker" too. AT the very least I would be consistent, either all English (prefer) or all Dutch.
- References need more complete information - see WP:CITE and WP:V. For example the internet refs need url, title, publisher, author if known, and date accessed. {{cite web}} and the other cite templates may help here.
Hope this helps, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 14:06, 6 May 2008 (UTC)