Talk:World Climate Research Programme

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This is a request for an COI edit. Please see the proposed updated article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Koalava/sandbox/wcrpdraft and my disclaimer here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Koalava . To be honest, the current article and those of many of its related programs have major quality issues, and so I attempted to resolve some of these through a COI request.

Hi Koalava, your draft looks like a well-structured and NPOV article, and definitely a big improvement over the current one. Two points that I think could do with some improvement:

- The larger part of the sourcing is to the organization's own website/publications, which (as I am sure you are aware) is perfectly fine for non-controversial data on organization structure, mandate etc. However, it would be good if use could be made of some more secondary sources - i.e., what others have written about the org as opposed to what is says about itself. Notability shouldn't really be in question for an org of this size, but strictly speaking that type of outside coverage is required to establish it in the article. Do you think you could find some such?

- Naked weblinks in the references are not ideal, as the reference entry gives no indication of content or author, and they tend to fall prey to WP:LINKROT. These should be formatted as template references, using Template:Cite web. That's not a big issue and I can do it if you prefer. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:25, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]