Talk:Mordor/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 14:51, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

I'll take this review. Might take me a couple days to get to it, but I'll get it in. Hog Farm _Bacon 14:51, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

• There's a bunch of duplinks. The duplink checker tool I have installed as a preference flags Barad-dur, Sauron, Dagorlad, Gondor, One Ring, Eriador, and Gollum as all being linked multiple times.

Searched and fixed.

• "The Ringwraiths took advantage of Gondor's defeat to re-enter Mordor, - I really think decline would be a better word here than defeat, as Gondor wasn't really defeated in this context until the capture of Minas Ithil

Quite right. Fixed.

• "where many international Corporations" - I'm not convinced Corporations is a proper noun in this usage, so it probably shouldn't be capitalized

Fixed.

Well written prose here. Most of my comments will be about reference formatting.

Many thanks.

Reference formatting

• Ref 8 needs an accessdate
• Ref 9 needs an accessdate
• Ref 11 needs an accessdate
• Ref 12 needs an accessdate, as does ref 13
• Ref 21 needs an accessdate

Done all those.

• The Polish ref has an author I think it looks like, add their name

Done.

• If the Parnell pop culture mention can only be sourced to the book, it's probably best to remove it; a good rule on determining if a pop culture reference is significant is if secondary sources discuss it

Ok, gone.

• Ref 24 needs an accessdate

Done.

• That last NYT citation needs an article title, the author for the article, a URL for the article (if available), and if you add a URL, add an accessdate. A lot of web links break eventually, and having a date from when the relevant content was accessed helps with archiving a link, since you know at what point that context still was extant.

Used NASA ref.

That's it. Well-written article, just a few formatting issues. Hog Farm _Bacon 20:36, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks, all done. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:08, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Basically, while accessdates seem like busywork, I've learned they do have a purpose.

Maybe. When the NYT archive has crumbled like Ozymandias, where will Wikipedia be, I wonder... Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:08, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

@Chiswick Chap: - One last thing I just caught. " The atlas was however published before The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996), in which the Sea of Rhûn and Mordor exist already in the First Age." is a note, with no citation. The first half of this doesn't need a citation IMO because it's obvious that a book published in 1991 was published before one in 1996. However, the bit about the Sea of Rhun and Mordor needs a cite though. That's all, I think. Hog Farm _Bacon 02:21, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Added. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:02, 20 August 2020 (UTC)