Talk:St. Mark's College (University of Adelaide)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Doctree (talk · contribs) 21:35, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

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This article is close to meeting good article criteria. In the below comments, I used "✗" to mark the three issues that caused the article to fail GA. The remainder of the comments, even if I consider the issues important, are NOT reasons to fail GA but that I hope editors will consider to further improve this article.

1. It is reasonably well written.

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

   1) The article should be restructured to follow the college and university article guidelines. 2) Please use a more complete and current version of {{Infobox university}}. Fill all applicable fields; for example, affiliation with the Anglican Church. Use sub-templates when specified; for example, the established field should be {{Start date|1925}} rather than just the date. Failure to follow infobox instructions prevents proper parsing of details in templates. 3) Article needs editing and better organization; some examples include: 3a) The first section, Foundation and opening, is overly detailed for an encyclopedia. For example, the number of maids is not significant enough for inclusion. Some of the writing is dated and probably copied directly from the reference, such as ", A. E. M. Kirwood, M.A., a University Lecturer in English and a man of very fine character,". 3b) The first sentence under Accommodations ends with, "...three co-residential dormitory buildings on campus: (3 floors), Memorial (3 floors) and Hawker Annexe (1 floor).✗ (Added Newland to complete the sentence on 14 Aug 2012.) 3c) The first sentence under College life is, "There are eleven residential buildings at St. Mark's, including dormitories, apartments and heritage residences." That may be appropriate to begin a section on residential building but not to introduce a section on student life. 3d) The Buildings and grounds section is a list, each building name a sub-title in random order with no organization or flow.✗ The section would be more readable and encyclopdic if better organized, perhaps with sub-sections devoted to Residential buildings, Common areas, Athletic and fitness facilities, and so on with an introductory paragraph or statement followed by "children" (see WP:Manual of Style/Embedded lists).

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

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

   The web link for Citation 4 is no longer valid. That citation supports that "Normally about 20% of the student body come from overseas countries..." It was archived and could be retrieved but the current page states that about ten percent of the student body are international students.✗ (Corrected the percentage and cited the current web page on 14 Aug 2012.) Some other information is outdated. There are sufficient reliable independent sources to establish notability. No obvious original research was found. Primary sources are used appropriately. I note that two different systems of in-line citations are in use and hope a Wikifairy will fly by and fix that.

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

   A short paragraph in Student life about the immediate surrounding area would be appropraite. Include things like the distance to The University of Adelaide campus, that the college is adjacent to the cathedral, and public transportation availability.

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):

   Some more photographs would improve the article.

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

   Only remaining issue is that "Buildings and grounds" is essentially an unorganized list without the bullets or numbers. That section needs to be organized with an introduction in prose and some logical organization to the description of the campus. Look in the Manual of Style under "Children" for an example of what might be appropriate.