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Leading thinker of the 20th century

Is this very subjective label actually qualified by any sources, or has it been subjectively added? Iskandar323 (talk) 09:10, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you're quite right. Have changed that, thanks. Esowteric + Talk + Breadcrumbs 09:14, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Still a GA by present standards?

This article become a good article in 2009 - do we think this still holds by present standards? This is worth a little discussion before any formal GA review is warranted, but a couple of obvious things that I see now and which I think would present barriers to this article becoming a GA today are some structural issues, including long contents + long paragraphs, and a lack of images. Iskandar323 (talk) 09:45, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your interest. I don't see any issue with the length of the content, since Shah had such a prolific life; nor do I see any over-lengthy paragraphs. I know little about getting an aricle to GA status, though.

I've fixed the red warnings in book citations (where author was used for an editor with "(ed.)" or "(eds.)" after the name).

One issue that you might face in going through a GA is that there are not so many people still familiar with Shah's life and his work, and only a few of them are still active Wikipedians. Jayen466 (talk · contribs) did a lot of good work developing and maintaining the article. Regards, Esowteric + Talk + Breadcrumbs 10:59, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

For want of some specifics, there are currently just 4 images in this article, which is roughly one every 2,600 words - so that's one image per undergraduate essay length wall of text. As for paragraph lengths, the worst examples come in the 'assessment' section, where the longest example, beginning: "And Shah's fiercest critic ... ", alone extends to 300 words. Iskandar323 (talk) 11:25, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Time for a GAR

Hmm. TrangaBellam (talk) 18:16, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think I've mellowed since I posted the above, as well as come to the realization that there are so many things that need improving that ripping down slightly off GAs is a bit of a waste of community time, as well as the rather specifically limited GA review capacity. Better to perform some quick fixes and just keep aged GAs at something close enough to passable. Iskandar323 (talk) 18:34, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]