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The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic has been listed as one of the Language and literature good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
May 4, 2012	Peer review	Reviewed
July 10, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed
August 25, 2012	Featured article candidate	Not promoted

Current status: Good article

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Maclean25 (talk · contribs) 21:51, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Three images used: File:Archaeology of Ritual and Magic.jpg Fair use image of the book cover. File:Swinside (p4160146).jpg Commons-hosted cc-by-sa. File:Sator Square at Oppède.jpg Commons-hosted GNU cc-by-sa.
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

I didn't realize until halfway through that I had already read this during its peer review. The article easily meets the GA criteria. If you would like a more detailed review or other perspectives, you can nominate this for Featured status. Otherwise, I look forward to seeing your next GA. maclean (talk) 04:15, 10 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- As this is article about a book, I have placed it in the Literature section. maclean (talk) 04:22, 10 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]