Talk:International Aerial Robotics Competition/GA1

GA Review

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Hi, I'll be doing this review, and I'll be posting my comments here shortly. --Malleus Fatuorum 18:33, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

• The GTMax image at 600px is really too big. See [1]. Images should not overwhelm the screen; 300px or so is a reasonable upper limit, but 600px is OTT.

• The same applies to the image in the lead, it's also too prominent. It also needs a caption.

• Unless there's good justification for doing so, it's best to keep the images at their default size. Does the picture of Michelson's pneumatic animatron really need to be so large, for instance?

• Images in general should be inside the sections they relate to, not above the section headings. See [2].

• Text should not be squeezed between left- and right-aligned images, as it is in Third mission.

• Citations are much better than when I commented before, but the Fourth mission section has only one, strangely positioned after one of the numbered bullet points. What is it meant to be supporting? That bullet point or everything that's gone before?

• I think that more needs to be said about what the rules are governing the types of vehicle that can be entered. That the computational equipment need not be carried on the aircraft itself is quite significant, for instance.

• Looking at a few of the citations, it seems that they do not support the material they appear to be in support of. Ref #11, in Venues, for instance, doesn't even mention the competition so far as I can see. The convention is that a citation supports all of the material preceding it.

• Ref #14 is to a blog, which cannot be considered a reliable source. The link is in any event broken, which effectively means that the Prizes section is completely uncited.

• "The competition creator, Prof. Robert Michelson is past President of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)." This statement, from the opening of the Spin Offs section is supported by a link to the AUVSI's home page. Where on that page does it confirm that Michelson is a past president?

That's it for now. I've put this article on hold, to allow time for these issues to be addressed.

--Malleus Fatuorum 18:53, 12 February 2009 (UTC)