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Jimmy Carter

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I've listed this article for peer review because I would like to get this article to good article status as part of my mission to get every president to be a good article.

Thanks, Iankap99 (talk) 03:48, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Comments by --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 11:14, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

• "Atlantic and Pacific fleets" fleets should be capitalised since it's part of a proper name.
• "He married Rosalynn Smith in 1946; they have four children." Missing a ref.
• Two paragraphs under "Naval career" are unreferenced. Please check throughout the article.
• MOS calls for the provisions of alt text.
• "4 Four U.S. Presidents. Former"
• Various dead links.
• "U.S. Boycott of the Moscow Olympics" Why's Boycott capitalised? Same with Airline in "U.S. Airline Industry".
•  Doing...

Ruhrfisch comments: I agree with the above comments, here are some more suggestions for improvement.

• The lead is 5 paragraphs long and WP:LEAD says it should be no more than four in length.
• Headers do not follow capitalization per WP:HEAD
• Lots of short (one or two sentence) paragraphs and even sections - this makes for choppy flow of the narrative. WHerever possible combine these with other sections or paragraphs, or perhaps expand them.
• A model article is useful for ideas and exmapls to follow - there are several Biograph FAs on elected leaders that seem as if they would be useful models here - Barack Obama is one.
• Biggest problem I see is a lack of references - for example in the Georgia State Senate section, three of the four paragraphs have no refs.
• My rule of thumb is that every quote, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref.
• Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. {{cite web}} and other cite templates may be helpful. See WP:CITE and WP:V
• Captions can be clearer - when was the book signing pictured, for example?
• Writing is poor in places and the chronology is confused - why does the section "Vice-Presidential aspirations in 1972" come before the section on Carter appointing one of Georgia's US senators in 1971?
• Please make sure that the existing text includes no copyright violations, plagiarism, or close paraphrasing. For more information on this please see Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches. (This is a general warning given in all peer reviews, in view of previous problems that have risen over copyvios.)

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch peer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 19:43, 12 February 2012 (UTC)