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Reviewer:Ed (talkcontribs) 00:56, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

  1. Is it reasonably well written?
    A. Prose quality:
    B. MoS compliance:
  2. Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
    A. References to sources:
    B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:
    C. No original research:
  3. Is it broad in its coverage?
    A. Major aspects:
    B. Focused:
  4. Is it neutral?
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. Is it stable?
    No edit wars, etc:
  6. Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
    A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
    B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
  7. Overall:
    Pass or Fail:


  • Hey again Ottava, great work. A few suggestions for further devolopment:
  • "Tennyson wrote Mariana in 1830 and printed it within Poems, Chiefly Lyrical."
    • What is "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical"? A literary magazine?
  • "However, Mariana, like The Lady of Shallott, is a lyrical narrative. It contains, like the poem Oriana, a refrain that carries through the poem"
    • "like the __" -> "like the ___" = repetitive
  • "The rhyme scheme of the poem, abab cddc efef, ..."
    • Is there a better way of rendering this? I may know what "abab cddc efef" mean only becuase of AP English, but I don't know how many other would...
  • Check the quotation mark placement in line 9-12.
  • "A review by a "Professor Lyall" in 1878 argues, "As descriptive poetry, and for that feature of realistic description so characteristic of Tennyson's muse, 'Mariana' has, perhaps, not been surpassed even by him.""
    • Does "Professor Lyall" need to be quoted here?
  • Cheers, —Ed (talkcontribs) 00:56, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]