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Economy of the Republic of Ireland

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Review commentary

• has a POV dispute tag
• has a large number of citation needed tags
• would benefit from footnotes instead of simple hyperlinks
• may need some cleanup

Todor→Bozhinov 20:27, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Talk messages left at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Business and Economics/BEF and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries. Sandy 21:50, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

• The prose needs to be improved. For example, in the lead:
  • "Agriculture, once the most important sector, is now dwarfed by industry, which accounts for 46% of GDP, about 80% of exports, and employs 29% of the labour force." What industry accounts for is an A plus B list, so remove the comma after "GDP" and insert "and".
  • "down from recent rates of between 4% and 5%." Tell us when those peaks were. "Recent" is too vague for a FA.
  • "House price inflation has been a particular economic concern (average house price was €251,281 in February 2005)." Since house-price inflation is the issue, cite figures for that, rather than absolute values of houses, which are hard to interpret without other data.
  • "Unemployment is very low and incomes have been rising rapidly although costs have also been rising [5]) as well as service charges (utilities, insurance, healthcare, legal representation, etc.)." "Very" is vague. "Also" and "as well as" would be better not appearing in a reworded sentence. Please don't use "etc." in serious writing.

There's a lot of good in this article, and Ireland's economy is an interesting case study. I hope that the contributors can arrange to have the prose improved significantly. Tony 12:47, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Status? One edit since it was nominated over two weeks ago (to remove the POV tag). Sandy 13:08, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

FARC commentary

Main FA criteria concerns are POV (2d), number and format of references (2c). Marskell 15:19, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Message left at User talk:TodorBozhinov. Sandy 03:08, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• Remove unless there's a sudden burst of improvements. I've mass bombed about 10 contributors from the history list with a polite request for assistance. Let's see what that yields. Tony 14:12, 31 July 2006 (UTC) PS Nothing about the huge debt of more than a trillion US$, apart from the info box. 2b. Tony 03:19, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
  • National public debt cannot be higher than external debt, the figure shown is a clearly completely erroneous figure from the 2006 update to the CIA World Factbook. Its physically impossible that its true, so the 1998 figures have been restored. --Kiand 21:22, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
• Remove per my nomination (POV dispute seems to be over, but there are still citation needed tags and references don't use inline citations, but hyperlinks). Todor→Bozhinov 14:42, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
• Remove per nom, except as I understand it the choice of inline citation style (html links or cite.php footnotes) is entirely up to the editor and there is not even a WP guideline recommending one over the other; thus the consistant use of inline html links cannot be counted against an article. The lack of response to the other issues, however, is valid grounds for demotion. (Forgot to sign this before) --jwanders^Talk 13:48, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
• Remove per jwanders Niz 13:12, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
• Remove still needs better inline citations. Sandy 20:44, 13 August 2006 (UTC)