Talk:British Airways/GA1

GA Review

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Comments:

1. The lead is not supposed to contain citations unless the information is unique.
2. The lead needs to be restructured. Combine several of the short paragrpahs so the lead is only a couple of paragraphs long.
3. There are a lot of pictures in the article. Can you remove some of them to reduce clutter?

   The major problem for me here is the number photos of aircraft which currently cause a block of white space. If that can be sorted out it would be an improvement -- Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 06:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

4. Per the WP:MOS, bolded terms should not be anywhere except the lead.
5. Citation needed for "Offering generous inducements for staff to leave led to record losses of £545 million, to the cost of taxpayers but to the benefit of the future privatised company."
6. "and was floated on the London Stock Exchange", change "floated" to "placed".

I must disagree with this suggestion, "floated" is a common term for a company entering itself into the public stock market, typing the word into google comes up with numerous related suggestions, including one right at the top of the list. "Floated" is absolutely perfect, rather than the generic term that you've suggested, it would seem a step backwards in comparison. Kyteto (talk) 21:54, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

1. There are several short paragraphs throughout the article. These should be combined to form longer paragraphs.
2. Citation needed for "On the contrary, Walsh has pledged to retain the full-service model on its much reduced UK network, seeing it as a means of distinguishing BA from the competition and believing that customers will be willing to pay extra for higher service levels."
3. "BA were". I noticed a couple instances of this. It should be "BA was" as British Airways is singular.
4. Citations are needed for some of the information in the Financial performance section.
5. Is it necessary to include a table of route changes?

   This appears to have been addressed -- Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 07:04, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

6. The bottom three paragraphs in the Destinations section need citations.
7. "in the nineties" sounds colloquial.
8. The sentence "Boeing aircraft built for British Airways have the suffix 36, for example 737-436, 747-436, 777-23." sounds awkward.
9. The third and fourth paragraph of the Current fleet section need citations.
10. Is there a citation available for the fleet table?
11. Citation needed for "British Airways offers either three or four classes of service on their long haul international routes serviced by B747, B767 and B777 aircraft. 'World Traveller' (Economy Class), 'World Traveller Plus' (Premium Economy) and 'Club World' (Business Class) always feature. All Boeing 747 aircraft and most Boeing 777 aircraft are also fitted with FIRST (First Class)."
12. There are several other large areas of uncited information in the article.

Due to the large amount of uncited material, I will have to fail the article. Once more citations can be added, the article may be renominated. Dough4872 (talk) 16:57, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

1. The Financial figures section which is currently only a raw table does not fit well with the rest of the article -- Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 07:04, 30 September 2009 (UTC)