Talk:Principles of learning

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A fact from Principles of learning appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on November 8, 2007.
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Principles of learning 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: November 9, 2007

[edit] Quick-failed Good Article nomination

Per the quick-fail criteria of the GA process, any article that lacks references entirely must be failed without an in-depth review or hold period. Though technically there is a references section present, the article does not provide a single inline citation (in either footnote or Harvard reference format). Simply having references is not enough, articles must attribute facts to sources through citations. For more, please read WP:V, WP:CITE, and the Good Article criteria. As a side note: it may be confusing for some to see the fail notice appear as if from thin air. This article was nominated on the WP:GAC page, but the corresponding template was never provided here. Please feel free to renominate when you have corrected this issue. If you feel the decision was in error you may seek a reassessment. Thank you for your work so far, VanTucky Talk 04:56, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good article reassessment

Article was quick-failed for lack of inline citations, but there is no such requirement in either WP:GA? or WP:V. Although inline cites are commonly used, they are not always required. They are only specifically required for: "direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons" which are not applicable to this article. Many editors object to the overuse of inline cites because they are unnecessarily distracting. This article is a compilation of several public domain sources which are in general agreement on the topic, which is the practical application of the "principles of learning." Each alone supports the entire article (with the minor exception of the Navy source which omits Recency). The text of the article is mostly verbatim transclusion of the best examples and explanations from each, with some minor editing to make the presentation generic. There is no need for inline citations on each sentence to show which of the documents each came from. The article meets WP:V and should be assessed on its merits. Dhaluza 14:47, 11 November 2007 (UTC)