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Kieran,

You rock. Thanks for those great suggestions!

MH

On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:39:17 +0100, kieran wrote:
> If you feel it's worth more than a "C" grade, you can just change it.
> But here I think the article needs a bit of work. Various helpful notes
> can be found at
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment#Quality_scale
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_criteria
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style
>
> A few ideas to improve the article would be to
>
> * remove external links (the first being to JST), as these aren't
> allowed within the body of the article
> * trim it down: I'm not sure the list of structural elements is really
> necessary, for example. It should be accessible to the lay-reader and I
> think most readers would come away disappointed (see B-class criterion 6).
> * it's not visually very welcoming, and would benefit a diagram and even
> a code snippet (B5). Compare their example B-class article
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=324230925
> with its infobox, photographs and diagram.
> * it could do with more referencing (~B1). Almost all of the references
> are currently to SBML documents; it would help to use references to
> demonstrate the notability of SBML outside of the geekosphere.
> * once the major problems have been overcome, stick it up for peer review
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Peer_review
> and, in time, aim to nominate it as a "Good Article".
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations
>
> I'm happy to put time in to carry out some of this, but wiki articles
> are best when updated by lots of people.
>
> Cheers,
> Kieran
>
>
> On 26/03/2012 19:03, Michael Hucka wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:45:22 -0600, Chris J. Myers wrote:
>>> How do you see the rating?
>>
>> Go to the Talk page. (Link in the upper top left.)
>>
>>> Do they give any reasons?
>>
>> No, but the ratings descriptions give some general explanations.
>>
>>> Is it simply a matter of asking people
>>> to read and rate it in order to improve the grade?
>>
>> It doesn't seem that way.
>>
>> MH
>>
>>
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