Talk:Criticism of copyright/GA1

GA Review

This article does not meet the Good article criteria and has therefore failed. Issues include:

Unformatted references. Format them according to WP:CITE/ES to include at least publisher and access date.
Unreferenced information, including:
- "Anti-copyright Groups and Scholars" section
- "Creative Commons" section (except for the quote)
- A number of paragraphs are unrefereced; several subsequent paragraphs have references, however; it is unclear whether these references also apply to previous paragraphs or not. Please indicate this by placing the same references in previous paragraphs, too.

Please renominate this article once these issues have been resolved. Gary King (talk) 00:40, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am starting to have a look at the ref and the missing references.

Regarding: Anti-copyright Groups and Scholars. All scholars and groups mentioned have their own wikipedia article and anything said in the section comes from their article (which is linked). Also, many of the listed scholars and groups are mentioned later in the article (with ref). I wondered if it is really necessary to find a reference to copyright for every single scholar and group; its possible, but a bit of an overkill... is there any guidance as per Wikipedia policy on this? Ta --SasiSasi (talk) 15:47, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just because another article says something is true, doesn't mean it is, because some articles are at a higher quality than others. An article should be independent in terms of verifiability from other articles so that a person doesn't have to check all the linked articles to ensure that these facts are true. If the groups are referenced later in the article, then I recommend using a Reference Name to duplicate the references to this unreferenced section. Gary King (talk) 17:01, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Makes sence since all articles are changing over time.... I just get on with it then.--SasiSasi (talk) 09:46, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All done--SasiSasi (talk) 00:19, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Renominated the article--SasiSasi (talk) 00:22, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]