Talk:Leader, Saskatchewan

Re-assessment request

Definitely is more than a start class, with a few improvements will make it to B class no problem. Related comments to the B-class criteria listed below.

lead should be expanded to include a brief synopsis of the entire article, rather than just location and population. If there are for example 9 items in the table of contents, there should be at a minimum 9 thingies summarised in the lead to entice the reader to read further into the article for more information. The US placename lead advices that some items should be mentioned in the lead (which are elaborated on elsewhere.) The lead shouldn't introduce info not in a section elsewhere, so the location relative to Calgary should also be mentioned elsewhere. The location relative to a SK city may also be handy. All the measurements need conversions so that km<->mi and ft<->metres are mentioned throughout the article. The re-naming from source 1 is a secondary source quoting Leader History Book, which could be used as a direct citation for the controverial statement By 1917, anti-German sentiment surrounding the events of World War I prompted the community to change its name, as well as its German street names to numbers. Lovely citations throughout the main article missing only the sports and Infrastructure sections which also need an inline citation.

The infrastructure, Parks and recreation and education sections would expand if instead of a listing of facilities a textual or prose description was given of them to flesh them out. Instead of sub headings in the infrastructure section...would it read better as just paragraphs under the main section header? The demographics template is awesome, but also needs some prose around it such as at Calgary or perhaps at Qu'Appelle demographics. History section is very awesome, covers early history, and continues onwards even past World War II to more modern history!!!! And the history section is also well cited. Checkerboard Hill is not mentioned from citation 1, nor are all the sports and leisure venues mentioned there. The two provincial heritage sites... St. John's School St. John's School and Blumenfeld Catholic Church could be included for coverage from citation 3. The Leader friendship section is not supported directly at citation 3, perhaps elsewhere on the website. If the proper URL could be cited it would help provide sourcing for this fact. "Saskatchewan’s first and only reptile zoo" from citation 2 could be added for broad coverage as well. Mention could be made of the qualifications in Saskatchewan for a community to incorporate as a town rather than a village. (500 peoples) As the ecozones map only shows a few communities upon it, it may help the WWW viewer to state that Leader is an Estimated Distance: 69.67 miles <->kilometers north of Maple Creek. According to citation 10 there is a "campsite at nearby Leader, SK." As Saskatchewan is home to big things by the side of the road it may be of note to mention the 7 various sculptures of Leader listed at citation 11. According to both WP:USCITY and WP:UKCITIES it is important to mention "Notable unique characteristics and characteristics commonly associated with it" that no one else has, which would be only theirs. According to citation 12, the Smith Barn is just a Municipal Heritage Property and not a provincial heritage property as stated in the wikipedia article. Smoosh together sports section and the parks and recreation section under one heading sports and leisure...and then develop more sports as listed in citation 13. From what links here, there are only 2 notable folks from Leader ... Kevin Riehl and Elliott Leyton so probably not enough to make a section.

Keep an eye out for sections with very little content (2-4 sentences), which indicates some completeness issues.

Some short sections could be combined into different section headings to help them grow...

An economy section states that Including 3 rural municipalities, Leader, is the center of a retail trading area. The term rural municipalities could be wikilinked, the precise 3 could be mentioned, and how they relate to Leader's economy to help flesh out this section.

The Attractions could use an inline coordinates template for each attraction, or the distance km<->miles from Leader to them respectivley.

Check to see if any sections can be completed which are mentioned at WP:USCITY and WP:UKCITIES.

• Criteria B class

1. The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations where necessary.

   The article on the whole has citations as noted above. Improve the article with a few more, and it will be good to go.

2. The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies.

   Discussed as per above.

3. The article has a defined structure.

   Request for re-organisation of material to bring out the best of included content available with sources to flesh out sections of only 2 or 3 sentences. lead section discussed above.

4. The article is reasonably well-written.

   The prose contains no major grammatical errors however several sections are still in point format and not prose, so it does not flow sensibly.

5. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate.

   Y

6. The article presents its content in an appropriately accessible way.

   Y

Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 00:56, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Here a couple of items that wasn't mentioned in the assesment.

1. The original name of the town should be included.
2. Even though the infrastructure is in sub-headings each sub-heading can be expanded.

Mr. C.C. (talk) 16:38, 2 December 2008 (UTC)