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	North Carolina State University was one of the good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones Date Process Result March 5, 2006 Good article nominee Listed June 28, 2006 Peer review Reviewed September 26, 2006 Featured article candidate Not promoted June 24, 2008 Good article reassessment Delisted Current Status: Delisted good article

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Here are some tasks you can do: Add to lead. Needs one or two more paragraphs to summarize the article, per WP:LEAD. The Student section needs references. References need to be checked for constancy and accuracy. Athletic Section needs more content, per WP:SS. History section needs to better summarize the split article, per WP:SS. Fair-use images need detailed fair-use rationale, per WP:FAIR. Alumni section doesn't follow format set by previous featured articles, see Duke University and look at its format and University of Michigan. Address issues from Good Article Reassessment.

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[edit] GA delisting

Unfortunately, I am delisting this article from the good articles list. Please see below for my comments. I'm disheartened that the article hasn't improved and the only activity is vandalism. I encourage you to improve and resubmit the article as I'm sure it can be "good again" with a little effort. Thanks. HolomorphicHamster (talk) 20:14, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

GA reassessment – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

1. Is it reasonably well written?

   A. Prose quality:

   The lead does not adequately summarize the article. Try expanding it some. See WP:LEAD for more information. Also suggest copyediting the whole article and peer review.

   B. MoS compliance:

   See semi-automated peer review below.

2. Is it factually accurate and verifiable?

   A. References to sources:

   B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:

   C. No original research:

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

   A. Major aspects:

   The "athletics" section could be expanded. See WP:SS for advice on summarizing the "NC State Wolfpack" page.

   B. Focused:

   The long list of Greek organizations seems out of place. Other good school articles don't tend to list every fraternity or sorority. Is North Carolina State University especially notable for these? Also is dodgeball more significant than other elements of student-life at the university?

4. Is it neutral?

   Fair representation without bias:

   Be careful to justify phrases such as "The university is well known for its award-winning, celebratory Homecoming traditions".

5. Is it stable?

   No edit wars, etc:

   Much vandalism, maybe seek semi-protection if it continues.

6. Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?

   A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:

   B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:

   Do the "NC State Wolfpack" and "Technician" logos meet the significance criterion of WP:FAIR?: "Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding."

7. Overall:

   Pass or Fail:

   I'm sure this could be a good article again. Please improve and resubmit it and I or another editor would be more than happy to review it.

HolomorphicHamster (talk) 20:35, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-automatic peer review

The following suggestions were generated by a semi-automatic javascript program, and might not be applicable for the article in question.

• Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Lead. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.^[?]
• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), there should be a non-breaking space -   between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 5 km, use 5 km, which when you are editing the page, should look like: 5 km.^[?]
• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), when doing conversions, please use standard abbreviations: for example, miles -> mi, kilometers squared -> km², and pounds -> lb.^[?]
• Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Build the web, years with full dates should be linked; for example, if January 15, 2006 appeared in the article, link it as January 15, 2006.^[?]
• As per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates), dates shouldn't use ^th; for example, instead of (if such appeared in the article) using January 30^th was a great day, use January 30 was a great day.^[?]
• Please reorder/rename the last few sections to follow guidelines at Wikipedia:Guide to layout.^[?]
• As done in WP:FOOTNOTE, footnotes usually are located right after a punctuation mark (as recommended by the CMS, but not mandatory), such that there is no space in between. For example, the sun is larger than the moon [2]. is usually written as the sun is larger than the moon.[2]^[?]
• Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.^[?]

You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas.

HolomorphicHamster (talk) 20:35, 24 May 2008 (UTC)