Wikipedia:Peer review/Hapkido/archive1

Hapkido[edit]

Hi everyone. This article is good in my opinion; I've added images to illustrate the article. (There were none before.) This article has good potential for Featured article status in my opinion, but I don't think it's yet up to par with Featured Article criteria. Here are the main points I raise:

The history section could be expanded, especially in referring to the development of Hapkido after Choi Yong Sul. Also, any and all sources should be cited, if possible.
The subsections in the section Techniques dealing with Core Techniques, Yudo, Kicking, Hand Strikes, and Weapons could use more detail.
I'm unsure if the explanation of the 3 principles of Hapkido is the best that could be. Someone even mentioned a fourth one: the "Principle of the no resistance" (Muchohang). Also, if the Korean characters for the principles could be found, that would be great.
The external links could be checked to make sure none of them are broken or irrelevant to the article.
I'm interested in learning more about the influence Hapkido has in the realm of Korean martial arts (for instance, its "sister" art Taekwondo is the Korean national sport), and in martial arts and the world in general. I couldn't really find much information about that in the article.

Does anyone agree with me? If anyone knows a lot about or practices Hapkido, your input on the article would be greatly appreciated. (I don't practice it myself, but I did do some googling in my edits of the article.) Also, is the writing style of the article fairly encyclopedic? Please leave any tips you may have. Thanks.

Wikiman86 21:10, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

If we compare this page to Taekwondo or judo I think we can see that it is not as consistant in narrative structure, that it does not touch upon as many broad topics nor is it organized as logically. This page is okay and I recently made major revisions of the sections however I think there is still a lot that could be done here to improve it.

There has also been a consistant problem with self promoting posts and an attempt to use this article to advertise a particular teacher or organization. I think we need to continue to be vigilent in stopping the External Links and the Bio sections to be used in this manner.

I think the most important thing is to look at the article from the perspective "If I didn't know what hapkido was and I read this article would I finish being well informed concerning the art?"--Mateo2006 05:36, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]