# Talk:How to Rule Your Own Country

This review is transcluded from Talk:How to Rule Your Own Country: The Weird and Wonderful World of Micronations/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Jack4576 (talk · contribs) 05:36, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

 
GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

It is reasonably well written.
a. (prose, spelling, and grammar): 
No issues with the prose, I did add one space at the front after evaluating this reviwe

b. (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): 
Style is good, paragraphs breaking the book apart are good. Overview good, reviews of book also good

It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a. (reference section): 
all verifiable and especially impressed with the page by page referencing of the book

b. (citations to reliable sources): 
all sources are accurate to the claims being made including the ones references directly to pages of the book

c. (OR): 
where book is used as a primary sources its to make uncontroversial factual claims, no synthesis occurring on this page

d. (copyvio and plagiarism): 
no issues

It is broad in its coverage.
a. (major aspects): 
discusses the book in depth without any undue weight issues. also discusses relevant information surrounding the book

b. (focused): 
article does not go off in tangents about micronations,

It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias: 
not hagiographic, critical commentary included

It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.: 
one author no warring

It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a. (images are tagged and non-free content have non-free use rationales): 
fair use and appropriately used

b. (appropriate use with suitable captions): 
only image is book cover

Overall:
Pass/fail: 
all criteria passed, GA

(Criteria marked  are unassessed)


### How to Rule Your Own Country: The Weird and Wonderful World of Micronations
@Errantios: IMO I do not see it as puffery and the editors at GAR had no concerns with this section. Could you elaborate why you think it is not necessary? ツ LunaEatsTuna (💬)— 20:42, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Who needs to know, for example, about the internal editing and the cover design? Not even a book review would be likely to have had that. Errantios (talk) 21:25, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
Just passing by, as the back and forth caused a no-target error (Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors). I have to agree with Errantios, something like this How to Rule Your Own Country is 320 pages in length and has nine chapters as well as an afterword, acknowledgments and a full index is just fluff. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 14:11, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
Maybe those can be removed, but the book's release date, publisher, background on Hobbs and Williams' education and prior book as well as the final sentence are definitely noteworthy (and usually mentioned by reviews); no need to remove the entire section. Additionally, these facts would then otherwise only be mentioned in the lead and not in the body, which is disallowed on Wikipedia since the lead should be a summary of an article. ツ LunaEatsTuna (💬)— 16:02, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
Also, looking at some FAs about books, noting the page number seems to be the standard. ツ LunaEatsTuna (💬)— 18:36, 26 November 2023 (UTC)