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Reviewer: Wasted Time R ( talk · contribs) 22:21, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
My immediate appraisal is to say this GA nomination is too soon. The event in question occurred only three weeks ago and it's likely that not all the facts are yet known about exactly what happened with the initial arrest, subsequent arrests, and later protests. And we do not know what, if any, effect the event or the subsequent criticism and protests will have going forward. So I don't see how you can write a "good" article about a subject when you don't yet know what the subject actually is.
This is especially evident in the article title. We have no idea whether the events of 7 August will turn out to be the same kind of landmark event that the NYC Stonewall riots turned out to be in the United States, or something less dramatic but still important, or something of no lasting effect at all. (I personally hope that this, or something, turns around the LGBT situation in Poland, but based on the general nationalist/reactionary/etc directions much of the world has been going in the last few years, I'm not overly hopeful.) If Wikipedia had existed on, say, 18 July 1969, would an editor writing an article about what had just happened at the Stonewall Inn have had any idea of what the Stonewall riots would eventually mean? A more apt title for this article would use a question mark, like "Polish Stonewall? Protesters decry government's anti-LGBTQ attitudes" this NBC News headline for an AP story does. As it stands now, the article title seems like something that people hope for, rather than something that is.
In terms of the GACR criteria, these problems affect the neutrality and stability criteria. There has been a fair amount of churn in the article in recent days, with a number of reverts taking place. That's symptomatic of an article about a very recent event. There is also potentially change coming because the outcome of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Margot (activist) may result into a merge into this article.
So while I believe the DYK this article had was appropriate – by definition, DYK items are about new content – I think a GA nomination is too soon. But I am willing to hear an argument to the contrary. Wasted Time R ( talk) 22:21, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
I am going to fail this GA nomination, as it has been 10 days and no progress is being made in addressing the concerns I listed above. The title is still completely wrong and there is continued instability and edit/tag warring around both this article and the Margot (activist) one. I would suggest the following happen:
I realize that step 6 may not be followed (but what is the rush?), however in my view all of the other ones should be. Then you can nominate again with a better article and a clean slate. Wasted Time R ( talk) 22:52, 6 September 2020 (UTC)