Talk:British Library/GA2

GA Review

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Reviewer: –– Jezhotwells (talk) 17:51, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

I shall be reviewing this article against the Good Article criteria, following its nomination for Good Article status.

Disambiguations: I fixed two disambiguations.

Link rot: I fixed two dead links.

Checking against GA criteria

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS):

   Well written and complies sufficiently with the MoS

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

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

   Some sections, e.g. Business and IP Centre, Sound archive, Newspapers, have no references; the first sentence of Philatelic collections has a reference, but the rest does not.

   I think the External links can be trimmed as all of these pages are hosted by the BL

   Catalogue entries can be found on the British Library Integrated Catalogue, which is based on Aleph, a commercial Integrated library system. The large reading rooms offer hundreds of seats which are often filled with researchers, especially during the Easter and Summer holidays. needs a cite for both Aleph and the "often filled with researchers, especially during the Easter and Summer holidays." bit.

   I reformatted some citations for consistency.

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

   A useful overview

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, where possible and appropriate.

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

   All images correctly tagged and captions provide

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

   On hold for seven days for above issues to be addressed. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 19:51, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

   It appears that the nominatorm is not currently active on Wikipedia so I shall not be listing at this time. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 10:26, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Tidy up

As part of the WP:GLAM/BL editathon, this old GA review needs addressing with the remaining issue being the unreferenced sections. Progress:

• Business and IP centre - several citations now added to support most of the statements, many other statements are rather general (such as about the physical facilities) with are easily found on the main BL pages. Fæ (talk) 20:38, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
• Sound archive - sources added. Fæ (talk) 20:38, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
• Philatelic Collections - sources added. Fæ (talk) 20:47, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
• Newspapers - sources added. Fæ (talk) 22:20, 28 January 2011 (UTC)