Talk:Minority Treaties

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Good article Minority Treaties has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society 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.
An entry from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on October 31, 2007.
May 18, 2008 Good article nominee Listed

[edit] Good article review

  1. The first footnote is redundant. If the alternative names are worth mentioning, they are worth mentioning in the introduction, ie ABC also known as LMN or XYZ. They should also be linked from redirection pages. The footnote also rather oddly references back into the main article.
  2. The treaties were designed to safeguard the rights of ethnic minorities in those countries Which countries? This paragraph needs to be edited so the reader is clear which class of countries are being addressed by the treaties. Also punctuation needs to be improved.
  3. There were several bilateral Minority Treaties signed between the country in question and the League. Did one country have several treaties? Once again this needs to be re-written to show that that League had treaties with several countries, as outlined in the subsequent sentences.
  4. References These need to be rewritten in Harvard format ie Jones, Sarah. 1999 Minority Treaties University Press, London. etc. Also separate out web links to texts of documents from books and journal articles, and it would be nice if authors were in alphabetical order. You can then alter your footnote notations to "Jones, 1999" etc.

Fix the above and I think we can go forward with this nomination. I enjoyed the commentary under "Importance", I thought it well written and informative. Editors might like to see if you can find an appropiate image, not essential, but adds interest to a page. --Michael Johnson (talk) 02:32, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry I've had to pull back from this process. Hope you find another reviewer, and my comments helpful.--Michael Johnson (talk) 04:21, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry it took me so long to get to reply here. It may be a good idea to add a note that the review comments have been posted to nominator page. Re 1. I think the footnote is helpful, clarifying which names were used for what. This article collects info on several treaties, each of which is notable but not all of which presently have their articles; some sources don't recognize that they were different treaties and confuse them, or just speak of unspecified minority treaty (treaties) in general. Re 2. It is very obvious that the countries which signed the treaty. I am not a native speaker, so if the punctuation needs to be improved, I am not the right person to do it, unfortunately. Re 3. This is unclear indeed, I'll rewrite it shortly - it is one treaty per country, several for the League. Re 4. Harvard style is only one of several allowed per WP:CITE, but we need to do some cleanup w/ regards to notes and refs, I'll do so shortly.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 12:34, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GA Review

Well, I think the above reviewer got it just about right in his comments. However, I would like to add: if you are going to quote a book, quote the specific pages you're quoting them from, not just the book name.

I'll add more comments shortly. Noble Story (talk) 14:33, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

We are quoting page ranges were appropriate, this will become clear as soon as I do a c/e of the notes/refs.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 12:35, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Noble Story was obliged to withdraw as well. I am requesting that a second editor conclude this review and have changed the {{GAN}} template accordingly. Take care. Gosgood (talk) 14:45, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Passed; all issues seem resolved. dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 02:04, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

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