Wikipedia:Peer review/Portugal/archive1

Portugal

I need constructive ideas for this article, keep it informative, and what should be changed. Plus, you can also help on making the English of the article more comprehensive. thanks to the one who is willing to help. -Pedro 22:08, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

• I saw this go through FAC, and I though many of the critisicms were unfair. I think the best option is to take a look at other countires that have been featured, like South Africa and Cambodia (I think this article is better than the featured article on Belgium) and make sure that this article covers the same set of topics with similar depth, this may involve making some sections more summarised and increasing the length of others. I'd get rid of the bolded internal links in text, and get a native english speaker to do a good copy edit to make sure flow, punctuation and spelling etc are all good.--nixie 01:11, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Yep - South Africa and Cambodia are very good examples to check against. --mav 01:34, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• I'll try to merge the best of both. -Pedro 09:03, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• I've changed it. See it please. -Pedro 11:51, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Much, much more summarizing is needed. See South Africa and Cambodia for examples. --mav 14:02, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
  • I consider the removal of information a bad thing, but i'll try to make them more consistent and reduced. But I'll also try to maintain the info. That articles have also serious problems. An encyclopedia article aim is to give information and it not to have summaries, bad structure of information and nice pics.-Pedro 12:01, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
    • Not removal, but moving detail to daughter articles. The longer an article is, the less likely the average reader will read it all. We must summarize the main points and provide a way for the reader to choose to zoom into the level of detail they need. An article in the 35 to 45 KB range can do that in this case (as shown by the two FA example country articles). --mav 15:00, 13 May 2005 (UTC)