Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Battle of Waterloo/1
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- Result: Delisted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:27, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
This article contains several uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. At over 13,000 words, the article is WP:TOOBIG and too WP:DETAIL. This includes too many quotes and block quotes (which should be summarised instead) and an excessively long lead. Z1720 (talk) 14:31, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
- Comment. Agree that the article should be shortened and more info moved into child articles. That said do not agree with comment on quotes - this is a stylistic preference, not a GA criterion. There are good articles with no quotes, there are good articles with lots of quotes. It's not so quote-heavy as to be a quote / react farm, for sure. SnowFire (talk) 16:49, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- With an article that is already so large, I think there are many quotes whose inclusion should be reconsidered. I do not think the article needs two different accounts of Hougoumont, an un-introduced quote at the top of "Charge of the British heavy cavalry" and a block quote for "The blows of the sabres on the cuirasses sounded like braziers at work." Instead, I think it's more effective to paraphrase the information. Z1720 (talk) 18:37, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delist while some editors have made edits to fix up the article, there are still a significant amount of uncited text, too many quotes, and excessive detail that it would be better if it was delisted and brought back to GAN when ready. Z1720 (talk) 22:53, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
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