Wikipedia:Peer review/Klondike Gold Rush/archive1
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I've listed this article for peer review because more than 1,000 people have worked on this article for 8 years and it could be interesting to hear the opinion of others who may know more about the subject and Wikipedia's standards than we do.
Thanks, Soerfm (talk) 23:25, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
- Comments from Nikkimaria
- See here for a list of potentially problematic links
- The links seem to work
- Don't use contractions outside of quotes
- That has been corrected
- Section headings generally should not begin with "The"
- They have been changed
- Captions that are not complete sentences should not end in periods. Captions should be clear and relevant to the text. Captions should meet same standards for prose, MOS, consistency and verifiability as article text
- Captions have been improved
- Avoid stacking images or sandwiching text between images
- Half of the images have been deleted
- File:Dyea_Waterfront_March_1898_(Maslan)_1.jpg is tagged as lacking author info
- Information has been added
- File:Soapy_Smith_1898.jpg - who is the author, and what is his/her date of death? What is the source of this image?
- Unfortunately, it cannot be found
- File:Klondike_mining_camp.jpg - who is the author, and what is his/her date of death?
- Information has been added
- Organization needs work. Look at published overviews on this topic and see what structure they use. Avoid one-paragraph sections where possible. Use clear and encyclopedic section headings (for example, "The bottom line" is inappropriate)
- Some headlines have been deleted
- Because both Canada and the US are relevant to this topic, specify whether dollar values are given in USD or C$
- Some mentionings of $ have been deleted in cases where no comparisons are made
- This article would benefit from a thorough copyediting - you might consider asking for one at WP:GOCE
- It has been requested
- Avoid colloquial phrasings and maintain an encyclopedic tone at all times
- A few corrections have been made
- Check for consistency throughout - for example, "conman" or "con man"?
- Con man has been corrected
- Legacy section could stand to be trimmed
- It has been trimmed
- Reference formatting needs to be much more consistent and complete. Web citations need publishers and access dates. Multi-page sources need page numbers
- Citations have been improved
- Please ensure that all sources used are reliable
- Some details have been deleted and some information made less specific in order not to say more than the source can verify. There is only one case where sources contradicts each other: one says that digging shafts was done in the winter, the other in the summer. The one that gave most information was preferred and the text based on it moved to a see also article.
I have re-rated this article as B-class, and it could likely achieve GA status with some concerted work. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:53, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you for the B-class rating and your comments Soerfm (talk) 17:31, 1 October 2011 (UTC)