Talk:Barley/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Bruxton (talk · contribs) 16:05, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Review

I am happy to review this article.

Many thanks. I hope you'll find it's carefully-constructed. I'm used to working through any issues with reviewers. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:27, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Looking forward to learning everything about Barley! I am stepping back from duties in another section of the project so I should be able to complete this in a timely manner. Bruxton (talk) 17:12, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Lead

• Y All of the elements of the lead are summary/introduction. I checked and all of the lead facts are repeated with citations in the body.

Images

• Y All 24 images appear to be properly licensed and free. I went through all of the image licenses and determined that that they are free to use. The airplane image is an outlier because it says it was captured in 1979 and the user does not have more than a handful of edits. But we can assumed good faith. The images also appear to be distributed in the correct sections.

Prose

• Y In the etymology section there is an orphan sentence. Is there a way to fold it into the paragraph above? Bruxton (talk) 18:37, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
  • Closed up.

Y Spelling - are we using British English? Because of spelling like "organised" and "colour" and "fibre "

Yes.

Thanks for adding the template atop of the article, that was my nest suggestion. Bruxton (talk) 20:03, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Y Should this be plural civilizations(s)? Bronze Age Harappan civilization 5,700–3,300 years ago.

Harappan is one thing.

Y Cultivation section: Should this be hyphenated? "drought tolerant"

Fixed.

Y Cultivation section: Might be an error It to be monitored for pests and diseases

Fixed.

Y Uses section: Should this be hyphenated? "18th century"

Fixed.

Citations

YEarwig 9.1% does not reveal WP:CLOP or plagiarism. Some sources are offline. I will check individually and list below after a check of each section.

Y Etymology - citations line up

Y Description - citations line up with the exception of citation 12 which is dead

Archived.

Y Origin - Great chart - my question is regarding a citation for the chart; is it found in citation 15?

It is directly based on [15], labelled and wikilinked to be intelligible to non-specialists.

Y Domestication - citations are verified

Y Spread section - citation 28 is dead. #32 is dead, a 404. In addition, the citation following Potatoes largely replaced barley in Eastern Europe in the 19th century does not seem to support the sentence.

[28] archived.

[32] updated URL.

Potatoes: removed.

Y Taxonomy and varieties

Y Two-row and six-row barley - interesting section - citation 42 lines up and "six-row barley" seems like a feed the world variation.

Y Hulless barley - offline sources

Y Production section - can the link in cite 46 point to the relevant page?

Don't believe there's any way of doing this, it's a database. Happy to be corrected.

I do not know how to find the information but it I am sure it is my own failings Bruxton (talk) 21:19, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Y Cultivation - Citations check out

Y Pests and diseases

Y Food

Y Preparation

Y Nutrition

Y Health implications

Y Uses

Y Beer, whisky, and soft drinks - I am unable to access several AGF

Y Animal feed

Y Other use

Y Culture and folklore

Stable

Y No instability on the Barley article

General comments

Thank you for writing the article. It was a pleasure to review and I thank you for the real-time edits. I look forward to reviewing more of your GA submissions. Bruxton (talk) 21:53, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Rate	Attribute	Review Comment
1. Well-written:
	1a. the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct.	Yes
	1b. it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation.	Yes
2. Verifiable with no original research:
	2a. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline.	Yes
	2b. reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose).	Yes
	2c. it contains no original research.	Yes
	2d. it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism.	Yes
3. Broad in its coverage:
	3a. it addresses the main aspects of the topic.	Yes
	3b. it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).	Yes
	4. Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each.	Yes
	5. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute.	Yes
6. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio:
	6a. media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content.	Yes
	6b. media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.	Yes
	7. Overall assessment.	Yes

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