Talk:Baltimore Urban Debate League

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	Baltimore Urban Debate League has been listed as one of the Everyday life good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can delist it, or ask for a reassessment.
Article milestones Date Process Result July 23, 2007 Good article nominee Not listed July 25, 2007 Good article nominee Listed August 31, 2007 Featured article candidate Not promoted Current Status: Good article

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[edit] GA failed

Issues

• Lead needs to be longer and summarise the whole article
• There are fair use images which need a speicific rationale of FU. Need to make comments about the FUsage, not just adding a template, per the instructions on the template
• The vast majority of the article is not referenced
• The remainder of the article had reference problems, since many of the references are the website of BUDL, so these cannot be used as they are not independent.
• The ref style needs to be consistent. They are reffed in a variety of ways, and in some cases the ref is before and some cases after the full stop. Need to see {{cite web}} because the date of publication, accessdate, publisher, author, etc should be included.
• Some details like the names of students who did well seem to be going into unnecessary detail and maybe construed as bordering on advertising.

Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:42, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Successful good article nomination

I am glad to report that this article nominee for good article status has been promoted. This is how the article, as of July 25, 2007, compares against the six good article criteria:

1. Well written?: prose is solid

2. Factually accurate?: article is well-sourced

3. Broad in coverage?: more than thorough

4. Neutral point of view?: no overt POV

5. Article stability? article is not subject to edit wars

6. Images?: all are free or have fair use rationales

If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to take it to a GA review. Thank you to all of the editors who worked hard to bring it to this status, and congratulations. — Argos'Dad 02:08, 25 July 2007 (UTC)