Talk:A. Dirk Moses/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: David Eppstein (talk · contribs) 22:33, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Clearly notable, but far too much of the article is unsourced. In "Early life and education", the first paragraph has a source that does not verify any information in the paragraph, and the later description of his dissertation is unsourced. In "Career", the named professorship, and the entire second and third paragraphs, are unsourced, and in addition violate our external link policy on not having external links in the main text of an article. In "Research", the first three paragraphs are entirely unsourced. The publication list is unsourced (good sources for much of this would be published book reviews).

Earwig found significant textual overlap with https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/dirk-moses, https://www.dirkmoses.com/, https://www.ucd.ie/warstudies/members/internationaladvisoryboard/dirkmoses/, and https://theconversation.com/profiles/dirk-moses-285397, enough to suggest the strong possibility that text was copied and pasted from there.

References [1] and [4] are books by Moses; they are not reliable sources about Moses. Several other sources appear to be self-written web autobiographies by Moses. There are no in-depth reliable independent sources about Moses, written by other people. Per WP:ABOUTSELF we can use self-written sources for non-controversial factual statements about the subject like degrees and career milestones but we cannot use them for anything evaluative. Without better sources we can only have a bare-bones article giving the skeleton of his life but nothing about his accomplishments or research, not complete enough to be a Good Article.

This appears to be a GAFAIL on both criteria 1 (a very long way from being properly sourced) and 2 (copyvio). —David Eppstein (talk) 22:33, 25 March 2023 (UTC)