Talk:National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy/GA1

GA Review

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Hello. I am going to have to fail this article's GA nomination. Here is a list of the issues I have found on a quick run through:

• My biggest concern is references:
  • There are large number of unreferenced paragraphs and partial paragraphs in this article. For example, out of the three paragraphs in the Campus section, one is completely unreferenced and one is mostly unreferenced. In the Notable alumni section, two out of four paragraphs are completely unreferenced.
  • Web references must give the name of the website publisher.
  • Refs 44 (Kmbs), 54 (The Days of Science), 61 (Bratskyi monastery) and 75 (A. I. L'vovich-Kostritsa) deadlink
  • I am very concerned about the number of primary references that come directly from the article's topic (the school). These are not the most reliable of sources, and although they are OK for some information, having at my count 42 out of 77 references to the primary source is not good source diversity. It looks like there are multiple books and journal articles listed in the References section that are not used in the the article - try using more of those.
• The V. Brioukhovetsky link in the References section deadlinks.
• Galleries of images (such as the one at the bottom of the article) are discouraged.
• Text should not be sandwiched between images.
• Lists, such as the one in the Literature and popular culture section, are discouraged. This section could easily be turned into prose.
• The prose is awkward and hard to read in some areas. For example, in the profile section it says "NaUKMA is a bilingual institution with Ukrainian and English being the languages of instruction, although the primary language is Ukrainian." This could be reworded to something like "NaUKMA is a bilingual institution with instruction in Ukrainian and English; however, the primary langugage is Ukranian." Please do a full copyedit of the article before renominating.
• External links within the body of the article should be avoided; there are a lot of them in this article.

This is not a comprehensive list, as I have not reviewed the majority of the prose, images, NPOV or comprehensiveness. I am also not able to review the reliability of most of the sources (except for the primary sourcing issue described above) due to the fact that I do not speak Ukranian, Russian or German. When the above issues have been resolved and a copy edit completed, please feel free to renominate the article for GA status. Dana boomer (talk) 17:46, 4 February 2009 (UTC)