Talk:Either/Or/GA2

GA Reassessment

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The original article was promoted to GA in 2007 and reassessed and reconfirmed in 2009. Since then it has been extensively changed and expanded and imo no longer meets the GA standard.

Well written

Written in essay, not encyclopaedic, style, with frequent WP:OR comments and asides. Fail

Verifiable with no original research

Extensive copyright violations, in the form of very long blockquotes from in-copyright books, have been deleted. The article still contains a large number of WP:OR asides and digressions. Many statements lack any citation. I have marked some (but by no means all) of these with "citation needed".Fail

Broad in its coverage

Even after deletion of extensive WP:UNDUE sections, article remains diffuse and frequently goes into excessive detail. Fail.

Neutral

Contains extensive editorial WP:OR comments and opinions. Fail

Stable

Has been stable for some years (but that is part of its problem -nominated in 2007 and 'reassessed' in 2009 -substantially bloated in the period up to 2015 by a single editor without any review). Adequate so far as that has any meaning in this context.

Illustrated

Contains relevant illustrations. Adequate but not particuarly enlightening.

Conclusion

This was made GA many years ago. It was subsequently vastly expanded in an eccentric fashion and no longer meets WP standards. Delist--Smerus (talk) 15:42, 18 June 2021 (UTC)