Talk:Musical instrument/GA2

GA Reassessment[edit]

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On Wikipedia:Good article criteria#Immediate failures it says:

"Immediate failures:
An article can be failed without further review (known as quickfailing or quick failing) if, prior to the review:

It has cleanup banners that are obviously still valid or needs new cleanup banners. These include {{cleanup}}, {{POV}}, {{unreferenced}} or large numbers of {{fact}}, {{citation needed}}, {{clarifyme}}, or similar tags. (See also {{QF-tags}})."

In 2012, the article Musical instrument was listed as a good article, but today the article contains: {{citation needed}}, {{Refimprove}}, {{citation needed}}, {{dubious}}, {{citation needed}}. --Oldnewnew (talk) 08:19, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Another problem in the article: Most of the references use citation templates, but some references do not. --Oldnewnew (talk) 14:41, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

I apologize for the delay in responding. You did not follow the instruction at WP:GAR to notify major contributors and I just now noticed this.
I've went through and cleaned up the "citation needed" and various other maintenance templates. This article constantly attracts attention from new and inexperienced editors who do not understand our citation system or style guide (for example, that citations are not required in the lead for concepts that are covered and cited in the body). Everything in the article is cited to reliable sources, and I've added additional citations where clarity was requested.
As for your comment about citation templates, it is a non-issue as long as the rendered text is consistent and meets WP:V. --Laser brain (talk) 16:27, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

To User:Laser brain: Great job! However, there is a single {{citation needed}} tag left. It is in the end of the section Twentieth century to present.

Dead links are okay in GAs. However, it would be nice if the dead link could be fixed in reference No. 6 in the section References. It has a {{Dead link}} tag. Best, Oldnewnew (talk) 22:21, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Will look into these shortly. --Laser brain (talk) 14:04, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed those issues. And... I just noticed you're blocked. --Laser brain (talk) 19:47, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Since they are blocked and the issues raised were resolved, it is alright to close it. Nice work by the way. — Yash! ^(Y) 22:37, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]