Talk:Durgapur, West Bengal

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 Durgapur, West Bengal 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: February 15, 2008
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[edit] Failed GA

This article is a fair way away from GA status

  • The article has a severe lack of references. Many sections and paragraphs have no references at all and the refs taht are there are incomplete. The publisher information.
  • The article is not written in a neutral POV but is written in a strong marketing style. There are sections such as "brainchild" and talking about Asoka and the Guptas in glowing terms that are not encyclopedic but have too much WP:PEACOCK
  • There should not be two pictures on both sides of the article, as there is in the lead. That sort of cramped writing is not in line with GA expectations
  • There are a large amount of grammar errors due to missing contractions and prepositions in the text.
  • The lead needs to be larger to better summarise the article and many of the sentences in the lead are short and do not connect ideas with the adjoining circle.
  • One line sentences need to be integrated into paragraphs or expanded into their own paragraphs.
  • "Two mighty rivers" "It all started with the dreamer first " etc are POV
  • The demographics need expanding to include things like the % of young and old people. and religion
  • The writing style needs to be drier rather than the current "entertaining" approach
  • There are a variety of MOS violations in teh article.

Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:36, 15 February 2008 (UTC)