Talk:The Guardian/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Cirt (talk · contribs) 18:51, 15 October 2012 (UTC) I will review this article. — Cirt (talk) 18:51, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Failed GA status

Failed GA status due to numerous sourcing problems, poor referencing standards, lack of citations in many places all over entire article:

1. Bare links and unformatted cites, please format all cites using 'WP:CIT cite templates.
2. C. P. Scott subsection = last paragraph is uncited.
3. Spanish Civil War subsection = entire section is uncited.
4. Post-war subsection = 2nd sentence has a clarification needed tag.
5. Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq subsection = there's a citation needed tag.
6. Ownership subsection = 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th paragraphs have several uncited sentences.
7. Political stance and editorial opinion subsection = 1st and 2nd paragraph have uncited sentences.
8. Publication history subsection = All paragraphs in this subsection have uncited sentences.
9. Moving to the Berliner paper format subsection = All paragraphs in this subsection have uncited sentences.
10. Reception subsection = 1st paragraph in this section has uncited sentence.
11. Regular content and features = Most of this section is largely uncited.
12. Online media subsection = End of 2nd paragraph is uncited.
13. GuardianFilms subsection = 2nd and 3rd paragraphs have uncited quotes, a big no-no.
14. References in popular culture subsection = End of 1st paragraph is uncited.
15. Awards subsection = Both sub-sects in this sect have lots of uncited material.
16. Editors sect = Totally uncited.
17. Notable regular contributors (past and present) sect = Uncited and tagged as problem sect.
18. The Guardian News & Media Archive sect = largely uncited.

— Cirt (talk) 23:00, 20 October 2012 (UTC)