Talk:BASIC/GA1

GA Reassessment

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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 October 18, 2008, 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.

• The article is almost entirely without inline citations, as is required by 2b of the good article criteria.

• There has been a request for citation in place since June.

• There are external links in the body of the article. External links should only appear in an External links section.

• The prose needs some attention. For instance:
  • "As the popularity of BASIC on CP/M spread, newer computer designs also introduced their own version of the language, or had Micro-Soft port version to their platform."
  • "Third generation BASIC dialects such as Visual Basic and StarOffice Basic introduced features to support object-oriented and event-driven programming paradigm."
  • "Most built-in procedures and functions now represented as methods of standard objects rather than operators."

• The article confuses object-based BASIC with object-oriented BASIC.

--Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 20:04, 18 October 2008 (UTC)