Talk:Siamese revolution of 1932/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Jezhotwells (talk) 22:09, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

I shall be reviewing this article against the Good Article criteria, following its nomination for Good Article status.

Checking against GA criteria

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS):

   Siam before 1932: Since the year 1782 the Kingdom of Siam was ruled by the House of Chakri founded by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (or Rama I). - poor construction, suggest From 1782 ...

   The capital city: Bangkok (built on Rattanakosin Island) was also founded by King Rama I. - drop the colon and relace by The capital city Bangkok, built on Rattanakosin Island, ...

   For over a century the Kings of Siam were able to protect the nation from neighbours and well as foreign nations, escaping colonialism from European giants such as Britain and France. - are the neighbours not foreign nations?

   OK, I am going to stop looking at the prose now as it is not good at all. Even the caption on the first picture is ungrammatical. Please get someone with a good command of written English to copy-edit throughout. You may get help from WP:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors, but probably not quickly enough for this review. Maybe someone at the project WP:WikiProject Thailand could help?

1. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

1. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

   OK, excpet for last two paragraphs

2. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

3. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

   Last sentence represents a point of view

4. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

5. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

   File:Royalplaza.jpeg has an incorrect license - it is an old postcard so how did the copyright holder release this into teh public domain. The caption is ungrammatical.

   File:Paribatra Sukhumbhand.jpg - captions says ... brother to ther King. Which King?

   File:Pridi Panomyong (Scholar).jpg - caption is illiterate.

   File:Pibun.jpg - as per above

   File:สยามราษฎร์.jpg - as per above

1. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

OK, I am going to fail this now as I do not think the prose can be sufficiently improved in a week. As stated above you need to observe the GA criteria that an article be reasonably well written and this is a long way from that. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:32, 16 January 2010 (UTC)