Talk:Bristol Motor Speedway/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 07:42, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

I am afraid that I will have to quick fail this nomination as the article is qualified under the relevant criteria at Wikipedia:GA. In this case of this particular article, I noted several problems which stand in its way of achieving GA status at this time. Also, the nominator has contributed to the article three times with relatively minor changes to it.

With a quick glance, the article requires an complete overhaul. The primary issue is that the entry is under-referenced, with several entire paragraphs lacking a single reference. Some of the prose in the article is messy, non-neutral, informal, inconsistent with MOS guidelines, with sections containing irrelevant and non-important detail, and will need to be completely written to make it easier for all to comprehend. Many of the sources are inappropriately formatted in that some lack the dates they were published, the date of when they were accessed by the contributor, and the work/publisher fields. Some of the citations have tags that indicate that they are dead links whether temporarily to an extent that they can be archived or that it cannot be accessed by any means. I also noted one reference that would not be passed as a reliable source in TheThirdTurn, which is a user-generated website.

On the whole, I suggest that the next nominator locate highly reputable sources on the track, ensure that the article is compliant with the MOS guidelines and take this to peer review to seek comments from others on how to further improve it before coming to GAN. MWright96 (talk) 07:42, 15 March 2020 (UTC)