Talk:2013 Malaysian general election/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 11:30, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:30, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

I'll copyedit as I go through; please revert if I make a mess of anything. It might take me a day or two to complete the review.

• There are numerous dead links: see here.
• Why is there information about the state elections in this article? This information is presumably either in or should be in Malaysian state elections, 2013, so I'm not clear why we would need it here.
• Not necessary for GA, but I'd recommend moving the enormous list of state level results of the general election into a separate list article. I'm glad you've collapsed it, but it's really more detail than this article needs.
• The lead should include more background about the prior political situation and the run up to the election. Take a look at Canadian federal election, 1957 for a high quality election article; the lead has a few words about the incumbent government and the political situation, the mood of the country, the political issues of the day, and the parties' electoral strategies. This article has very little comparable material in the lead.
• The background section similarly has very little about the background; it only covers the dissolution and the dates. Why did the Prime Minister decide to dissolve parliament, for example?
• There are a couple of uncited sentences that need citations.
• Why do we have very detailed lists of the party manifestos? We don't need these to understand the party positions; and in fact they get in the way because you have to unhide each section. This would be much better covered in prose. The manifestos are sources; they should not be verbatim in the article.
• The sequence of sections seems illogical. Why do we have a short "Electoral system" section that gives the results, before the "Campaign" section? And the information within sections is sometimes oddly organized. The Federation of Malaya is defined at the end of the "Political system" section, for example.
• The "Election firsts" section seems useful, but it's not clear which of these were the results of the Select Committee, and it would probably be useful to give more background on the committee since it was presumably formed in response to problems in the prior election, which would be good to know something about.
• A copyedit pass is needed; there are some oddities. For example:
  • Ruling party, Barisan Nasional (BN) consists of...
  • which was consented
  • Pakatan Rakyat gained control of five out of thirteen state assemblies (has since lost one state assembly-Perak to BN due to defection)
  • Following the dissolution of the Federal Parliament, state assemblies that have yet to be dissolved have announced their dissolution in quick succession. Below are the dates of which the legislative assemblies of each state were dissolved
• What's the point of the "Remarks" column in the state dissolution table? Though if you remove the information about state elections I would think this goes away.
• The tense varies; there are some sentences in the future tense; presumably these were written before the election and have not been touched since.
• The reaction and aftermath section talks mostly about voting statistics and quotes from politicians; there's nothing about the political and policy impact on the country.

I'm afraid this is a long way from GA status, so I am failing it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 00:38, 24 January 2018 (UTC)