Talk:Atlantic herring/GA1

GA Reassessment

In order to uphold the quality of Wikipedia:Good articles, all articles listed as Good articles are being reviewed against the GA criteria as part of the GA project quality task force. While all the hard work that has gone into this article is appreciated, unfortunately, as of May 9, 2009, this article fails to satisfy the criteria, as detailed below. For that reason, the article has been delisted from WP:GA. However, if improvements are made bringing the article up to standards, the article may be nominated at WP:GAN. If you feel this decision has been made in error, you may seek remediation at WP:GAR. Sasata (talk) 08:59, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

• The "Morphology" section, currently two short sentences long, tells almost nothing about what the fish looks like.
• The "Predators" is merely a listing of other species, and not even a proper sentence.
• The prose and flow in other sections needs to be improved; there are too many one-sentence "paragraphs".
• The extensive "Further reading" section needs to be converted into in-line citations so that the article is properly sourced.
• There is a wealth of scholarly literature available on this species that has not been mentioned, so the article does not represented a good general overview of what's known about the topic.
• Large areas of empty white space are unattractive and should be avoided.
• The taxobox picture Herringadultkils.jpg lacks source information.
• Some picture captions are very long; much of this caption text should be moved to article text and better described.