Talk:Paris

GA Reassessment

Paris

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Result: Delisted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:21, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

As noted on the talkpage, this is a very extensive article that includes within that extent unsourced text. Even within the apparently sourced text, there are issues, for example the Regional government source does not cover all its text. Other issues include the recent history section entering WP:PROSELINE, other areas having similar dated statements, and the overall article going into MOS:OVERSECTION. The WP:LEAD contains unique information rather than being a summary of the article. The length (>14,000 words) suggests this article does not "stay focused", and contributes to issues such as the unsourced text and the oversectioning. These issues would take significant work to fix. CMD (talk) 03:04, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

This article was pretty lengthy when I last looked at it, and is now considerably lengthier. I don't mind that too much at GA level (quite another matter at FAC) but unsourced additions are another matter and decidedly a no-no. Tim riley talk 13:49, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

@CMD, Tim riley: I have tried to fix WP:PROSELINE and the lead (although it probably should be rewritten); I'll try to fix the other issues soon. The article is probably a bit too long, but not by a lot: Boston (FA) contains just under 10,000 words, while Paris contains just over 14,000. Some of the difference is probably because there are more things to write about (as the capital city of France); I have proposed the "Culture" and "Infrastructure" sections to be split. Alpha Beta Delta Lambda (talk) 18:06, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Progress for cleanup by section (for my convenience):

Section	Progress	Comment
Lead	Not done	Needs to be rewritten.
Etymology	Done	Can't see any citation problem (if there is please tag it).
History	Not done	Q few claims need citation, some claims probably need to be moved to History of Paris, a claim needs to be clarified.
Geography	Done	Sourced and enough coverage.
Administration	Not done	A paragraph without cite, there are probably more claims without reference.
Cityscape	Not done	Several claims without cite.
Demographics	Maybe done	It appears well sourced but haven't thoroughly checked yet.
Economics
Education
Culture	Not done	Probably needs split and actually needs to address the culture of the city.
Sport	mostly done	Spin-off from the culture section, mostly sourced but the Rugby League part may need some more.
Infrastructure	Not done	Probably needs a split, and if not OVERSECTION needs to be addressed. Also there are some claims without sources.
International relations	Not done	Needs some sources and cleanup, but not an overhaul.

Alpha Beta Delta Lambda (talk) 13:54, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

• @Alpha Beta Delta Lambda: are you still interested in working on this? Z1720 (talk) 13:55, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

  @Z1720 Sorry, no. You can close this GAR as demoted now. Alpha Beta Delta Lambda (talk) 21:13, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

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.

Louvre

should this be explicitly in the lede, as well as the infobox. Crookesmoor (talk) 20:08, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Major centre since the 17th century

From the last sentence of the first paragraph: "Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, fashion, and gastronomy since the 17th century." First of all, I don't see this discussed anywhere in the article or in the cited source. Second, it's actually contradicted in the Fashion section, which says "Since the 19th century, Paris has been an international fashion capital", with a source citation. GA-RT-22 (talk) 09:28, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Flag of Paris in 2026

Flag of Paris in 2026.

In 2025, they have adopted a new flag of Paris bc is weird and really weird GeniusElephant678 (talk) 10:46, 22 July 2026 (UTC)