Talk:Edmonton Oilers/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Harrias ^talk 20:04, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Okay, initial thoughts are that this article isn't up to GA standards:

• The article often offers favours the Oilers, using "unfortunately" on a few occasions, and giving an impression of bias in other sections.
• Non-encyclopedic language is used, "upstart", "powerhouse", "ironically", "had a playoff performance to remember" are examples of this.
• Many paragraphs and claims are unreferenced, see the Decline in success section in particular, but a lot of the history section is like this. The Jerseys section is almost completed unreferenced. Same issue with the Players section; other than the current players, the rest are all unreferenced. And Franchise records, and NHL awards and trophies.
• "However, ..." is used excessively: it isn't particularly encyclopedic language, especially not in this quantity.
• There is a hint of recentism in the history: 2005-present is longer than most of the other sections, and it goes into more detail than is probably necessary.
• Home arenas could do with an expansion to give a bit of information on each arena, when the team played there etc.

My advice would be to take this to peer review, get some opinions there, get it up to scratch, and then bring it back. Harrias ^talk 20:24, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Feel free to leave any comments you may have on my talk page. Harrias ^talk 20:24, 1 March 2011 (UTC)