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I stumbled across this relatively recent GA promotion while seeking some decent examples of city articles, and found quite a few problems on a skim readthrough. There's several paragraphs and statements that lack sources, a lot of the written prose comes off as very basic and non-professional, and it
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could list the ones he is referring to, and add citation needed tags where he thinks necessary. My concern is that the article has been nominated for DYK because of its recent GA promotion, and for that to go ahead, this review will need to be resolved.
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I was surprised to see this article was up for GA reassessment because a glance through it gives me the impression of a well-written, well-referenced article, and I didn't see any lists and tables I thought inappropriate. Perhaps
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These problems have been rectified as much as I could. But with regards to the tables, there is a lack of sub-articles on George Town or Penang as a whole. In fact, if you look at other GA articles like
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or other collage templates; it's hard to read on a smaller screen and sections get cut off by the images. Otherwise, it now meets the minimum standard in the GA criteria.
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has several lists and tables that aren't entirely appropriate for a main article (and should be moved to appropriate sub-articles).
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This is vague, but I assume the peacock part of the sentence is on the
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As far as George Town is concerned, it does not have a single LRT, MRT or any form of rail-based transportation aside from the
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in terms of cargo traffic and recorded the third highest passenger traffic of all
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