Talk:Dublin/GA1

GA Review

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Hello. I'm going to have to fail this article's GA nomination, mainly due to referencing issues. Here is a list of things that should be worked on before the article is renominated for GAN:

• The article is extensively under-referenced. There are sections that are completely unreferenced, and most sections are at least partially un-referenced. This is the most major concern with the article.
• There are several deadlinking references - see here for a list.
• Web references need to be formatted with a publisher and access date at the very least.
• There are several fact tags, some of which have been in place for over a year.
• The lead does not adequately summarize the article and is too short. The lead for an article of this length should be three to four paragraphs. The lead should summarize the entire article, but should not contain any information that is not present in the body of the article.
• The image choice and placement needs attention. Text should not be sandwiched between images. There are probably too many images for this article - some should be removed; readers can view them in the commons category and articles are not supposed to be image galleries, which is what this has turned into.
• The Tourist attractions section should either be expanded to include prose, or removed altogether and the link moved to the see also section. There should not be sections that contain nothing but a link to another article.
• The See also section should be trimmed. Non-essential links should be wikilinked in the body, and removed from this section.
• There are a lot of short paragraphs. These should be combined to form longer paragraphs, which will make the prose flow better.

I hope these suggestions help you in your quest to improve this article. Once these issues are fixed, the article can be renominated for GA status. In this review, I have not looked at prose, image licensing, reference reliability, NPOV or completeness, so this list is probably not exhaustive. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Dana boomer (talk) 19:12, 15 February 2009 (UTC)