Talk:Battle of Wanat/GA2

GA Reassessment

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--Airborne84 (talk) 05:14, 25 June 2010 (UTC)=== GA Reassessment === I believe that this article does not meet criteria 1.a. and criteria 3.

• 1.a. It may have met this criteria during the GA review in 2009. Additions since then have reintroduced undesireable elements seen in many Wikipedia articles—information inserted by multiple editors without concern for the flow of the article. In particular, the section "Operational failures" (which I renamed "Operational issues" since "failures" falls short of criteria 3) seems out of place.
• 3. I'm concerned that this article is written in a POV form. In general, it seems well-sourced. However, it seems to paint a picture of an utter failure by the chain of command. I'm not saying that the material that paints a poor picture should be removed. However, there is additional material available in various reports, some of which are noted in the external links, that could be used to help fill in some of the information gaps. Sure, include the report that states there was a "lack of supplies, equipment, and drinking water for troops stationed in Wanat". However, this could also be balanced by information available in these reports on what was actually there. Some more balance is needed. I also went through and removed some POV wording here and there that was not listed in the sources. This may have been "POV creep" in the last year. However, there was too much editorializing. A scrub is in order to ensure that the rest of the material reflects the sources themselves, and not the editors opinions.

I think this article could easily be a GA, but it needs a bit more balance and a rewrite for criteria 1.a. It doesn't necessarily fail criteria 2 (broad in coverage), but it's not detailed enough to meet the comprehensive criteria of an FA. That detail is something that should be strived for, and will help fill GA criteria 3 here again.--Airborne84 (talk) 04:56, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Another note. The lede doesn't reflect much of the information on the investigations that is given in the last section. Since the lede is supposed to be a summary of the article, that should be updated as well. --Airborne84 (talk) 05:14, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Due to changes to the article, I believe that the GA status can reasonably be kept. I have closed the GAR. --Airborne84 (talk) 16:11, 28 December 2010 (UTC)