Talk:Snap-dragon (game)/GA1

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GA Reassessment

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As part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles' Project quality task force, all old good articles are being re-reviewed to ensure that they meet current good article criteria (as detailed at WP:WIAFA.) I am boldly delisting this article based on the following issues:

• The main issue is one of concerns of original research pervasive throughout the article. For example, the following passages:
  • "The first printed references to snap-dragons or flap-dragons are in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost (1594):";
  • "and Henry IV, Part 2 (1598):"; and
  • "The first reference to Snap-dragon explicitly as a parlour game is in Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811)";
• are cited to the primary source; that is, Shakespeare himself or Grose. But this is only citation enough for the actual use; to say that these are the first mentions is gross original research. We need secondary sources to confirm this. This issue is found throughout the article, concluding with the uncited assertion that "Nevertheless, children often burnt their hands or mouths playing this game[21], which may have led to the practice mostly dying out in the early 20th century." In short, more citations and complete rewrite are necessary.
• Minor issues also include citations coming before punctuation (e.g., "end of clause," instead of "end of clause,") and broken links to the public domain texts.

Remember that you can renominate the article at WP:GAN any time you feel it meets criteria, but I strongly urge you to fix the major issues described above. Direct any comments about this review to my talk page; I don't watchlist old reviews. Thanks, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 17:29, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

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