Wikipedia:Peer review/Education in the United States/archive1
Education in the United States[edit]
Self-nomination. See previous RfC at Archive 1. I am resubmitting this after many months of further fine tuning. Frankly, the only large difference I can see now from the last time is the addition of more cites, free images (with the exception of the Harvard comencement one, but that image is particularly good and appropriate), and a history section about segregation. I'd like any feedback possible because I would really like to make this a featured article. Previous peer review at the Archive--naryathegreat | (talk) 21:29, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
- Overall I think it's an excellent article that does a thorough and reasonably neutral job of covering the subject.
- The first thing I noticed is that this page is 56Kb in size, which is much larger than the preferred maximum. So some of the sections are going to need new pages.
- In a few cases specific institutions and states are mentioned as examples of eliteness; I'm not sure how much heartburn that's going to cause some problem, but I thought they were reasonable choices.
- In the introduction you list average salaries for college graduates, but don't give the year when that was relevant.
- Some of your bulleted lists could be readily converted to tables to give them a little more polish. (For example the electives list could have the main category in the first column and the examples in the second.)
- The section on contemporary education issues doesn't appear to cover concerns about perceived shortages of science and engineering majors among U.S.-born students, but perhaps I missed that?
- Finally, don't community colleges have minimum GPA standards for accepting students from High School? Maybe that law has been changed since I heard about it.
- Thanks for your work on this. :) — RJH 16:16, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for the comments! I'll work on your suggestions; however, I feel that I can't shorten the article very much because any articles which I created would be too short. It's possible, but not easily done. As for the community colleges question, I believe you usually simply have to have graduated from high school, but that is probably set on a college by college basis anyway.--naryathegreat | (talk) 03:29, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
- Don't get too concerned with shortening the article, there are plenty of long Wikipedia FAs. If the information fits better into a long article, keep it there. Just remember that many people stop reading after 10, 20, and 30 minutes. Scott Ritchie 06:48, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for the comments! I'll work on your suggestions; however, I feel that I can't shorten the article very much because any articles which I created would be too short. It's possible, but not easily done. As for the community colleges question, I believe you usually simply have to have graduated from high school, but that is probably set on a college by college basis anyway.--naryathegreat | (talk) 03:29, 14 January 2006 (UTC)