Talk:Riverina

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Portal	Riverina is maintained by WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.
GA	This article has been rated as GA-class on the quality scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Riverina.
Assessment comments This article has been rated for quality and/or importance but has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and then leave comments here to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and what work it will need.

Riverina (reviewed version) has been listed as a good article under the good-article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can delist it, or ask for a review.

	To-do list for Riverina:	edit  · history  · watch  · refresh
Areas that need adding include: Climate (a table with Climate figures for say Wagga Wagga, Corowa and Hay to take a sample) Is this necessary? Expand: Geography - area, national parks. References required: Transport - A better ref for riverboats would be useful. Please add anything else that needs doing

.

[edit] GA on hold

This article looks really good with plenty of inline citations. However, I have a few suggestions that should be fixed before I pass it according to the GA criteria.

Fix these suggestions if applicable:

1. Since the article is named Riverina, I don't think that "The" needs to be bold, just Riverina itself. (now completed)
2. The lead should be expanded due to the large length of the article. See WP:Lead for suggestions. (lead has been extensively rewritten and expanded - for other editors consideration)
3. Go throughout the article and make sure that all of the inline citations directly follow the punctuation with no space in between. I noticed one in the lead and a couple in the Wine and Politics sections. (now completed)
4. Add wikilinks or fix disambiguation links: confluence (dab), Great Dividing Range (wikilink in the Geography section), geology, diamonds, clays, saline, fauna, flora, ecosystem, cattle, sheep, manifesto, weirs, rice, wheat, maize, canola, citrus, & wine grapes.(now completed)
5. The images for the most part look really good, and it's great that there are so many in the article to help present the information. For the very first image, its caption has a duplicate "the the", remove one of them. For the image Image:CSU crest.png, it needs a fair use rationale. (new image uploaded)
6. "The terrain includes rolling hills to the east, becoming flatter to the west. Most of the plain is less than 200 metres above sea level." Combine the two sentences. (now completed)
7. In the second paragraph in the climate section, millimeters is spelled out twice and then abbreviated twice. I'm sure you could spell it out once and then use abbreviations for the rest. Also a space is needed between 500-800mm. For the first paragraph in the Riverina bioregion section, per cent is spelled out and the symbol is used a sentence later. Stick to one or other throughout the article. (now completed)
8. The single sentence standing by itself in the Exploration and pastoral settlement should either be expanded or incorporated into one of the other paragraphs. This occurs a few times throughout the article, make sure to fix them all.
9. Add (MIA) after Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area in the Irrigation and closer settlement section since you reference to it a paragraph later. Also in that paragraph, there is a missing period at the end of the paragraph. (now completed)
10. "For the first several decades of European pastoral activity from the 1830s, cattle were mainly grazed..." I'm not sure if this is proper usage or not, go by the Australian English and ignore if necessary. "Were mainly grazed" doesn't sound right, if you can, reword it. (sentence now altered - for other editors consideration)
11. Remove the extra period after the [48] citation in the wool section. (now completed)
12. I think the heading should be changed from Sport to Sports. There is also an extra space between Lockhart and the period at the end of the section. There is an extra space between the Sport section and the Culture section, see if you can remove it if possible; it may be due to the location of the image. (now completed)
13. There is an extra space after Victorian Opera in the Culture section before the period. You can transfer it over to the lack of space between the comma and Spiderbait in the sentence after it. (now completed)

Add inline citations:

1. In general, the Riverina is an alluvial plain formed by deposition carried from the Great Dividing Range by streams 15,000 - 30,000 years ago.
2. Aboriginal people are thought to have inhabited the Riverina for 40,000 years.

For the most part, an excellent job on the article. Just fix the above suggestions within seven days and I'll pass the article. Please let me know on my talk page when you finish or if you have any questions. --Nehrams2020 07:57, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Out of date

Wagga Wagga's population is declining slowly and is aging with strong growth in age groups 40 and over. is incorrect and the source is out of date as the latest ABS has Wagga's Pop at over 58,000 people (2001 it was 56,000). Don't know whether this could be of any use [1]. -- Bidgee 03:07, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Added info on Wagga Wagga and "sponge" city phenomenon. Feel free to edit should you feel it necessary. Good find.--Mattinbgn/ ^talk 12:20, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA passed

I have passed this article according to the GA criteria. The spacing of the references still need to be fixed in the Rice section (#53 before the comma) and the Wine section (space between 47 and 56), and a couple in the Politics section. Also, one of the images appears to have been deleted, either remove it or reupload the image if possible. To help the article keep its GA status, make sure that all new information added to the article is accurate and properly cited. Altogether, the article looks great, keep up the good work! --Nehrams2020 08:13, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

• Thank you Nehrams2020. I have since made these last 3 adjustments. Great work team!! --VS ^talk 08:36, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, thanks Nehrams2020. Your suggestions prompted a significant improvement in the article. I guess the next step from here is WP:FA. That process may require a great deal more work. A reminder of where we came from; on 2007-01-08, the article looked like this. Well done all!--Mattinbgn/ ^talk 09:35, 8 March 2007 (UTC)