Talk:Israeli West Bank barrier/GA1

GA Reassessment

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This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force in an effort to ensure all listed Good articles continue to meet the Good article criteria. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, listed below. I will check back in seven days. If these issues are addressed, the article will remain listed as a Good article. Otherwise, it may be delisted (such a decision may be challenged through WP:GAR). If improved after it has been delisted, it may be nominated at WP:GAN. Feel free to drop a message on my talk page if you have any questions, and many thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this article thus far.

• All direct quotations must be cited immediately, such a sthe one in the second pparagraph of History and stated purpose.

• "(Id., at p. 815)". this will not do for an inline citation. To what is it referring?

• "Most of the barrier (over 95% of total length) consists of a 'multi-layered fence system' ideally 50 m in width." What does "ideally" mean here? From whose point of view "ideal"?

• {{cquote}} should only be used for pullout quotes.

• The first sentence of Decreased checkpoints and closures is one of the longest I've ever seen. The prose needs some attention in other areas as well, such as "Upon completion of the construction, the organizations predict, the barrier would prevent over ...".

• "in order to move a section of the barrier to the Green Line, a mall of 63 shops straddling that line into Israel was demolished by the IDF in the village of Nazlat Issa after giving their owners 30 minutes notice. In August 2003, an additional 115 shops and stalls (an important source of income for several communities) and five to seven homes there were also demolished. The Israeli government has promised that trees affected by the construction will be replanted." This conjunction of the destruction of shopes, homes and liveliehoods with a promise to replace a few trees seems to betray a particular point of view. Writing from a neutral point of view is always important, but doubly so for an article on a topic such as this one.

• There is a request for citation in the last paragraph of United Nations and International Court of Justice, and another in the first paragraph of The United Nations.

• "Most Israelis believe the barrier and intensive activity by the Israel Defense Forces to be the main factors in the decrease in successful suicide attack from the West Bank." Statements like these need to be cited. Who says so?

• Why do we have a section on Canadian opinion? Is the Canadian view especially significant? If so it needs to be explained why. If not, then it should probably be merged with the preceding American opinion (presumably this actually means US opinion?). In general the whole International opinions section looks very muddled.

• What does Border opinions mean? How can the border have opinions?

• The point made in the two sentences of the "Apartheid" opinions has already been made earlier in the article. This either needs to be expanded to justify a separate section or dropped.

• There are seven broken links.[1]

• The External links section needs to be pruned, as per the tag at the head of the article.

--Malleus Fatuorum 19:48, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

As these issues remain unaddressed, this article has now been delisted. --Malleus Fatuorum 12:16, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.