Talk:102d Intelligence Wing

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102d Intelligence Wing is currently a good article nominee. An editor has indicated a willingness to review the article in accordance with the good article criteria. Further reviews are welcome from any editor who has not contributed significantly to this article, and can be added to the review page, but the decision whether or not to to list the article as a good article should be left to the first reviewer.

^{Date: 21:52, 28 May 2008 (UTC)}

102d Intelligence Wing was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

^{Reviewed version: May 27, 2008}

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[edit] On hold

I have failed the GA nomination for this article, as I feel that it has too many flaws to be taken care of in one week.

One-sentence intro is far too short. It should be expanded to maybe two paragraphs.
Too many subsections in History section. Either expand the "Origins", "World War II", and "Cold War" sections or remove those subheaders entirely.
"Berlin Crisis" subsection is unreferenced, are the next several subsections below it ("Post Cold War", "Global War on Terror", "BRAC 2005").
"End of an Era" isn't exactly a neutral header. Maybe "Final operations"?
I don't think that references can be placed in headers, as is done under "Previous Designations" and a couple other headers.
None of the refs use citation templates such as {{cite web}}. References 9 and 11 are bare links.
Too many lists. Could any of the lists such as "Units assigned" be turned to prose?

Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 20:13, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 102d

I'm assuming that this means "hundred second Intelligence Wing". Why is it "102d" rather than the more normal "102nd"? DJ Clayworth (talk) 20:18, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Citations

Please note, this is not a GA review, but it may help with future review processes.

The internet inline citations used in this article are improperly formatted and this problem may hinder a GA nomination. Internet citations require at the very least information on the title, publisher and last access date of any webpages used. If the source is a news article then the date of publication and the author are also important. This information is useful because it allows a reader to a) rapidly identify a source's origin b) ascertain the reliability of that source and c) find other copies of the source should the website that hosts it become unavaliable for any reason. It may also in some circumstances aid in determining the existance or status of potential copyright infringments. Finally, it looks much tidier, making the article appear more professional. There are various ways in which this information can be represented in the citation, listed at length at Wikipedia:Citing sources. The simplest way of doing this is in the following format:

<ref>{{cite web|(insert URL)|title=|publisher=|work=|date=|author=|accessdate=}}</ref>

As an example:

<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discovery.org/a/3859|title=Avoiding a Thirty Years War|publisher=www.discovery.org|work=[[The Washington Post]]|date=2006-12-21|author=Richard W. Rahn|accessdate=2008-05-25}}</ref>

which looks like:

Richard W. Rahn (2006-12-21). Avoiding a Thirty Years War. The Washington Post. www.discovery.org. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.

If any information is unknown then simply omit it, but title, publisher and last access dates are always required. I strongly recommend that all internet inline references in this article be formatted properly before this article undergoes GA review, and indeed this is something that a reviewer should insist you do before promoting your article. If you have any further questions please contact me and as mentioned above, more information on this issue can be found at Wikipedia:Citing sources. Regards--Jackyd101 (talk) 16:52, 29 May 2008 (UTC)