Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Test Track/1

Test Track

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Result: Delist. Consensus is to delist due to unsourced text, including entire sections, and a lack of critical commentary on the subject. No recent significant edits to address concerns. Z1720 (talk) 14:07, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Several sections of the article are missing citations. Joeykai (talk) 03:45, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Joeykai, I noticed you put ^{[citation needed]} tags after literally every sentence without a direct citation even if that sentence was cited at the end of the paragraph. Please don't do that, because it makes it much harder to determine which passages are actually uncited. This also goes against WP:REPCITE, which recommends using a citation once at the end of a passage, if multiple consecutive sentences are backed up by that source.

For example, the sentence "In August 1998, Disney announced that the opening of Test Track would be delayed once again" is tagged as unsourced even though there is a source for this (number [16]) that covers the three sentences before it. Since you tagged the entire article like this, making it unreadable, I'm afraid I'm going to have to revert all of these tags for now. You can re-tag the sentences that are actually unsourced, not just backed up by a reference further on in the paragraph. Epicgenius (talk) 19:39, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That being said, I recommend delisting this article as a GA at this time. There is a lot of info about the ride description that is unsourced or unsourceable (essentially being original research). More to the point, however, it's missing any kind of commentary about critical reception or ridership, as would be expected of many major amusement rides (let alone this one), so I cannot say in good faith that this topic is covered broadly. I can probably work on that later, but can't make any promises. Epicgenius (talk) 19:51, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

One suggestion from a random Wikipedian related to the GA Reassessment: Archiving all the Newspapers.com clippings used as sources, and then including their archive links within their citations. That was a recommendation given to me when editing another article for GA status. (Actually, you'll want to archive every source.) Good luck with this article, and great work so far :) Afddiary (talk) 19:43, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delist Having entire sections with zero citations is a blatant GAC fail. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 23:29, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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