Talk:YouTube/GA1

GA Reassessment

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 August 17, 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.

• This article contains way too many short subsections. Its structure needs to be reorganised.

• Many of the subsections, such as On Apple TV, iPhone and iPod touch are completely uncited.

• Certain parts of the article read like a "how to" guide, such as :"By adding &fmt=6 to the web address of a video, it is played using the H.263 codec with mono sound, and by adding &fmt=18, it is played using the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec with stereo AAC sound." Wikipedia is not an instruction manual.

• There are external links in the body of the article, such as in the last page of Domain name problem. All external links shouild be in the External links section.

• Certain parts of this article read like original research, such as "As of August 2007, this "feature" seems to have been extended to profile comments as well, although the user will receive an ambiguous "error processing your comment" message." Who says so?

--Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 23:26, 17 August 2008 (UTC)