Talk:Population and Community Development Association

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Last edited by Kit.i.t. (talk | contribs) 13 years ago. (Update)

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Peer Review from Politics of Developing Nations Class

This looks like a great start of an article, with a lot of good-quality information. I realize it's still being worked on, so I assume the stub sections of "Women's Health and Maternity" and "Poverty Reduction" will be taken care of. I think the formatting for the "Strategies" section could be improved simply by making the headlines above the bullet-points bold. Also, the HIV/AIDS section seems to have a lot of important information, but it needs more citations. There should be at least one in every paragraph there. I think this article could also benefit from having more internal links. Wikipedia really likes having internal links for all its articles. For example, the first sentence of this article could read "The Population and Community Development Association (PDA) is a non-governmental-organization in Thailand is a non-governmental organization in Thailand, founded by Mechai Viravaidya." Other than that, I didn't really have anything in the way of copy-edits; spelling, grammar, and punctuation all looked fine to me. The only thing I would watch out for is switching tenses. There are several places in the article where it makes sense to write in past tense, specifically when discussing past events; otherwise, the entire article really should be in present tense. This is most noticeable in the HIV/AIDS section. Keep editing! It's coming along. I have no doubt your article will be accepted as a complete Wikipedia article soon! Kit.i.t. (talk) 02:15, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]