Talk:United Kingdom/GA1

GA Reassessment

In order to uphold the quality of Wikipedia:Good articles, all articles listed as Good articles are being reviewed against the GA criteria as part of the GA project quality task force. While all the hard work that has gone into this article is appreciated, unfortunately, as of October 3, 2008, this article fails to satisfy the criteria, as detailed below. For that reason, the article has been delisted from WP:GA. However, if improvements are made bringing the article up to standards, the article may be nominated at WP:GAN. If you feel this decision has been made in error, you may seek remediation at WP:GAR.

• There are at least 10 dead links in the Notes and references section.[1]

fixed, Tom B (talk) 18:11, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

• The Culture section has been tagged as being in need of further citations since July.

• The Symbols section is flagged as needing to be converted from a list to prose, and has an unaddressed {{fact}} tag.

fixed, Tom B (talk) 18:11, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

• There are many unattributed expressions of opinion, such as "The Beatles were and still are considered one of the world's greatest bands." Who says so?

fixed Beatles, Tom B (talk) 18:11, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

• Large parts of the article are completely uncited, the last half of Football for instance, and almost all of the Geography and Christianity sections.

• "Golf is one of the most popular participation sports played in the UK ...". Who says so? How popular?

fixed, Tom B (talk) 18:11, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

• "Heathrow Airport is the world's busiest international airport and, being an island country, the UK has a considerable number of sea ports." Needs to be cited. On what basis is Heathrow the busiest international airport in the world? Again, who says so? Why is the citation shunted off to an image caption? What does a "considerable number" mean?

fixed heathrow, someone else removed non-specific bit about sea ports and ugly grammar "being an island country", Tom B (talk) 14:37, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

• "The City of London is the world's largest financial centre alongside New York." Doesn't make sense. Is it the largest, the second largest, or are both London and New York equally large?

fixed, Tom B (talk) 22:40, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

• Publishers and last access dates need to be shown for all of the citations.

--Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 20:33, 3 October 2008 (UTC)