Talk:Imperialism/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) 07:08, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

• I will review this one soon.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 07:08, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

I would ordinarily quickfail this article.

• The WP:LEAD at 682 characters of readable prose does not adequately summarize the 15314 characters of readable prose in the main body. This LEAD should be about 2 or three paragraphs and 1500 to 2000 characters, IMO.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 08:02, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
• Please include a summary of each section in the LEAD.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 08:02, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
• Why is the main image shifted down a paragraph?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 08:02, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
• In the absence of an infobox, could this be included on any political templates like those at the top of democracy?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 08:02, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
• I see a half dozen paragraphs with no inline citations.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 08:02, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
• The article has too many very stubby paragraphs that need to be expanded or merged.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 08:02, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Overview

• "Britain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain in Africa, Asia, and the Americas." is this a sentence?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 08:02, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Age of Imperialism

• In light of the Colonialism vs imperialism section File:Colonial Africa 1913 map.svg is quite puzzling. It has a rather meaningless WP:CAPTION that points to an article about "process of invasion, occupation, colonization and annexation of African territory" after you said that was not what this article was about.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 08:02, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
• Even in the text you start talking about colonies.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 08:02, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

This article needs to be reworked. I am going to fail this now.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 08:02, 24 June 2012 (UTC)