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I've listed this article for peer review because it used to have Good Article status but it's since been delisted after some upheaval. Since then, a lot has changed and it has stabilized in the last few days. We are looking to reach GA status once again and would appreciate feedback. Thanks!

Thanks, Nirvana888 (talk) 18:20, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Emw2012 (talk · contribs)

Inconsistent capitalization of great and middle power occurs throughout the article (Great power, great power, Middle Power). As neither superpower nor middle power are capitalized in their respective articles, I would remove capitalization from all usages of 'great power' or 'middle power' in this article. If a quote originally capitalized 'Great power' then that should be preserved, but only inside that particular quote. Fixed.

~~There should be no spacing between in-line citations and the punctuation they proceed. See citation [7], and there's one more I can't find again right now.~~ Fixed.

The following sentence from the 'Current great powers' section needs work: "Germany is considered by experts to be an economic power.[26][27], and by chancellor Angela Merkel[28], former president Johannes Rau[29] and leading media of the country[30] as a middle power in Europe." While placing citations close to their subject helps specificity, here it's overwhelming and a distraction. Fixed.
~~Also in the 'Current great powers' section, the parenthetical note next to 'United States' -- "(also referred to as a superpower)" -- should be normally sized/formatted.~~ Fixed

References ~~16 and~~ 29 should have their formatting fixed.

ISBN identifiers should be added to the referenced texts. For example, see current reference 26 (Max Otte, Jürgen Greve (2000). A Rising Middle Power?: German Foreign Policy in Transformation, 1989-1999, 324. ISBN 0312226535.).

Redundant wikilinks in the same section should be removed per WP:OVERLINK. Specific offenders include 'Napoleonic Wars' in History (I'd keep the second wikilinked), and names of various nations throughout the article. Fixed

~~Image captions that are full sentences should end in a period; those that are sentence fragments should not. Every graphic except for the first gets this wrong.~~ Fixed. Emw2012 (talk) 21:13, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]