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GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: The Flash {talk} 02:55, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hiya. I caught this quaint little article while sifting through GAN, and it's a sure-fire pass for GA. I'll be conducting the review in the manner of Talk:I Married Marge/GA1. Let's start. :) The Flash {talk} 02:55, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lead[edit]

  • Short but to the point—nice.

Content[edit]

  • "Colbert explains in the introduction of his book[...]" → "[...]of the book[...]" as to not confuse readers that you're talking about a different book.
  • There's some times where it strays from "he explains" to "he commented," so please pick one tense to stick with.

Background[edit]

  • Please explain that his nephew and nieces are children before you refer to them as "the children."
  • Wikilink to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
  • Perhaps change "[...]began to notice mythology references in the book" to "[...]notice mythological references[...]"
  • Can you merge the second and third sentences in the last paragraph?

Publication and reception[edit]

  • Same as above—work with fixing tenses to be consistent.
    •  Not done What parts are you referring to? Theleftorium 11:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • Never mind, after another read, the issues I had with that are to minor to count. The Flash {talk} 17:27, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • "The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter has been praised for learning children about literature and history" → "[...]praised for teaching children[...]"
  • Please give a brief explanation about the Narnia book, like what you said about the Lord of the Rings one.

Images[edit]

  • Can you add one of these images? From what I can tell, book FU images are like those of films and video games: infobox images are perfectly fine to use for identification purposes.
    • I don't feel an infobox image is useful here. Theleftorium 17:35, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • Any particular reason, though? The Flash {talk} 18:31, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        • I just don't see why we should use a non-free image in this article when it's not useful. Theleftorium 18:46, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
          • It is useful—identification purposes. The Flash {talk} 19:52, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
            • People can identify the book by reading the text, IMO. Theleftorium 19:55, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
            • The people at WP:NFC seemed okay with it so I've added the cover art. I can't come up with any ALT text for it so feel free to do that yourself if you think it's necessary for GA. Theleftorium 21:12, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Both images are fine—but can you please add some ALT text?

Final say[edit]

To be done when above issues are taken care of.
GA review (see here for criteria)
  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (MoS):
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects): b (focused):
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. It is stable.
    No edit wars, etc.:
  6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
    a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
  7. Overall:
    Pass/Fail:
    Nice work! I'm going ahead and passing it. Thanks for your diligence throughout. :) The Flash {talk} 03:25, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much for the review! :) Theleftorium 10:52, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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