Wikipedia:Peer review/Adamawa Province/archive1

Adamawa Province

There is so much in this article that you'll want to read it just to quench your thirst for knowledge (you're working on an encyclopedia after all). If you're done reading, take five minutes to report your findings here and tell what it needs to become a Featured Article! — mark ✎ 01:50, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Whoa.. thats a lof text in there. How bout adding a few pictures illustrating some of the features? I would suggest maybe:

• a picture to illustrate the section Relief
• a picture to illustrate the section Plant and animal life
• if possible, a map to illustrate the section Settlement patterns
• a picture to illustrate the section People, if suitable images of natives can be found.
• a picture to illustrate the section Tourism
• a picture to illustrate the Menang mentioned in the section Cultural life
• if possible, a few pictures to illustrate the section on History, if suitable pictues can be found

While not critical, I feel that adding pictures to an article helps to bring it to life. WegianWarrior 07:48, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Very interesting stuff, and I'm impressed at the amount of information about an obscure corner of West Africa. Pictures would definitely help, and also, it would make sense to me if the history section came first. The article contains a lot of redlinks, which harm the overall look of the article. Some of them look like an appropriate existing article could be found to link to, others look like a link is not really necessary. A few stubs could be created, perhaps, for the rest. But apart from that I really think it's an excellent article, pretty close to ready for an FA nomination already. Worldtraveller 13:28, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This article is the work of User:BrianSmithson, who seems to be away these days. Regrettably, I won't be able to adress the point about pictures. However, I'll try to turn a few redlinks to blue in the near future. Thanks to both of you for reviewing! — mark ✎ 14:45, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'm still around! Sort of. The problem is that I'm still in Cameroon, so I have internet access very infrequently. To address a few of the concerns brought up here:

• Pictures. Yes, they'd be nice. Unfortunately, I am posted to the East Province, and can't just go and take them myself. I do have one or two floating around on my USB key that I can try to upload soon. Another option might be that I can convince some Adamawa volunteers to let me use their digital photos. I can try to find out.
• Red links. It's my opinion that they're a good thing, not bad. It's a debatable point of all those red links are really potential articles, but I think most of them could be.
• Gas-belching lakes. As far as I know, all such activity has been in the Northwest Province.BrianSmithson 15:10, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Turning red links to blue whould be a valuable contribution (albeit an indirect one) to this article, Mark, & FWIW my opinion is that this article is on the track to becoming a FAC. One detail, though, that has stuck in my mind from my omnivorous reading leads me to this question: does this province include the lakes that are alleged to occasionally release poisonous gases that kill their nearby inhabitants? I saw this story/factoid in a copy of Smithsonian Magazine at my brother's house about a year ago, but adding this information would improve either this -- or the article on the relevant Cameroonian province. -- llywrch 02:56, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

That must be Lake Nyos you're referring to, which belched out a cloud of carbon dioxide in 1986 and killed 1600 people. That's in Northwest Province, Cameroon, and is mentioned in that article. Don't know if there might be other gas-saturated lakes in this province though. Worldtraveller 00:10, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

You're right. Digging a bit further in Wikipedia reveals a link to the pdf file of the article I had remembered, [1] which mentions a second lake in Northwest Province. From the article, it leads me to suspect that there are other such lakes in this province -- but until this is proven by a reputable authority, there is no point including this phenomena in this article, for it would clearly be original research. -- llywrch 06:26, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Some suggestions: images should be there if your goal is to make it a FA. I don't like the misuse of the TOC with the use of excess sections. I can point you to Sikkim which is also a state/province of FA status. Your infobox has no margins and the text almost wraps into the box. The article should be shortened and the detail moved to main articles -- rationale: since it is a geographic article which contains discrete topics, a summary of the salient points should be highlighted instead of long narrative topics.  =Nichalp (talk · contribs)= 19:53, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)