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WHAT IS THE ARTICLE LIKE?

The article is quite well developed but with some flaws, such as inappropriate lead, sections unbalanced, overall length, cleanup tags, references need completion etc. Large parts of the article appear well-written but would need an experienced copy-editor to go over the final product.

WHAT WILL THE ARTICLE BE JUDGED BY?

The Good Article criteria are well defined and given in link below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_criteria (Please read this in detail)

WHAT ELSE IS RELEVANT?

If you look at the article talk page banners and click the "show" button next to the article milestones, we can see the history of the article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi

The article became a Featured Article by the criteria of that period on 22 January 2005. This was very relaxed compared to today's standards.
It underwent a Featured Article Review in June 2005 and was kept.
It underwent a peer review on 17 February 2006 and was improved vide the points.
It underwent a Featured Article Review in January 2009 and was demoted. (url:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_review/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi/archive1) The chief causes of concern were:

Sources improvement & cleanup to satisfy Verifiability.
Lead improvement
Structure of sections.
Image review.

It appears to have been renominated for GA on 9 May 2011 and failed by TonyTheTiger. Revie comments are at url:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi/GA1. These will be the comments that we will have to resolve before we can even put it up for GA.

See

http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Contributors.php?wikilang=en&wikifam=.wikipedia.org&grouped=on&page=Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi

Of the contributors presently Nirvana2013, RegentsPark, Sunray & Fowler&fowler were those major contributors who contributed recently. These people will be amongst our biggest well-wishers.

In addition, a number of Project Editors such as AroundTheGlobe & Karthikndr have begun editing it. We are fellow editors with them in this venture.

TASK

Read GAC as already mentioned above.
Read the failed FA Review & the failed GA Review.
In reply to this, please reply on this thread and say what are the points you feel need improving and what is the best way to resolve them. Time:Till tomorrow evening 1900 hours.

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello friends,

we shall be shortly starting a master class for how to make a GA. The aim is to make the GA COTM of the month - [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]] - into a GA and to provide discussion/learning tips/clarify doubts to the participating editors during the process.

Three young editors have opted in for the class:
* User:Rangilo Gujarati
* User:Arnavchaudhary
* User:Debastein

Another user, User.Nick.me may also join us. Anyone is welcome. We need three to begin, we got three, so we begin tomorrow.

Posts on this topic initiated by me will be prefixed GA Master Class, so if you are not interested, please do not feel obligated to read. However, we would love to have every one join into the editting and learning/teaching. Remember just because there is an activity going on, nothing prevents you from improving the article yourself.

First post tomorrow, in the meantime please read the Gandhi article from top to bottom. There is going to lot of MOS pages reading. So get used to reading intelligently.

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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