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GA Review

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I shall be reviewing this page against the Good Article criteria, following its nomination for Good Article status. Jezhotwells (talk) 17:49, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Quick fail criteria assessment

  1. The article completely lacks reliable sources – see Wikipedia:Verifiability.
  2. The topic is treated in an obviously non-neutral way – see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view.
  3. There are cleanup banners that are obviously still valid, including cleanup, wikify, NPOV, unreferenced or large numbers of fact, clarifyme, or similar tags.
  4. The article is or has been the subject of ongoing or recent, unresolved edit wars.
  5. The article specifically concerns a rapidly unfolding current event with a definite endpoint.

No problems found when checking against quick fail criteria. Jezhotwells (talk) 18:04, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Checking against GA criteria

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  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose):
    b (MoS):
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (references):
    • The vast majority of references are WP:SPS, in fact Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities appears to be the only independent source. This must be addressed. I would suggest that a minimum of 40% third party sources is required. Jezhotwells (talk) 18:29, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    b (citations to reliable sources):
    c (OR):
  3. It is broad in its scope.
    a (major aspects):
    b (focused):
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. It is stable.
    No edit wars etc.:
  6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
    a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales):
    b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
  7. Overall:
    Pass/Fail:

After consulting national officers and staff of the fraternity, it seems there is very little chance of finding sufficient independent references as sources for the information in the article. There are numerous university and local newspaper articles written about chapter events, but little in the way of general references that would be useful in this article. If such sources exist, it will likely require more research than can be completed during a hold period. As a result, I'm withdrawing the GA nomination for this article. Thanks for taking the time to review. Michael07lu (talk) 20:10, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]