Talk:President of Ukraine/GA1

GA Review

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Hello. I am going to have to fail this article's GA nomination, mainly due to referencing issues. Here is a list of the issues I found with this article:

The lack of referencing is the biggest problem for this article. There are large portions of this article that are unreferenced, including most of the Duties and powers and Latest election sections and all of the Impeachment and succession section.
I'm not sure that Ref #21 (Airlines.net) is a reliable source. It looks to be a collection of photos by private individuals.
The prose needs some work, and there are some areas that are confusing. For example, take the last sentence of the Election and eligibility: "The next election is scheduled to take place on January 31, 2010[9] or in late 2009, depending on how the Constitutional Court deems constitutional." First, the last clause of this is not grammatically correct. Second, why is the Constitutional Court deciding when the election should take place?
In my opinion, it is not necessary to have the oath of office in both Ukranian and English. Most of the English Wikipedia's readership does not speak or read Ukranian, and having the long Ukranian quote there just disrupts the flow of the prose without adding anything to the article. If you really want to keep it in the article, another option would be moving it to a footnote.
Be careful using wording that can easily become dated. For example, in the Duties and powers section, you say the Prime Minister is "currently Yulia Tymoshenko". Instead, say something like, "Yulia Tymoshenko as of February 2009". Currently, recently, soon and other words like this are all ones to avoid where possible.
The image at the bottom of the Duties and power section, of a constitutional ammendment being signed into law, has a deprecated license tag.

Better referencing and a sharp look at prose are the two things that would be a significant help in getting this article to GA status. This is a nice article, and once the above issues have been rectified, I look forward to seeing it back at GAN. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Dana boomer (talk) 23:07, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reviewing it. I'll try to incorporate your suggestions for improvement and nominate it again sometime soon. —dima /talk/ 17:58, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]