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List of Scream characters

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I've listed this article for peer review because I have essentially rewritten it to meet the warning boxes on the page, tried to ensure that is not in-universe, source everything I possibly can and created, what I believe, to be a sufficient intro. I like to think it could be a featured List alongside List of Uncharted characters and would appreciate the review of my peers to see if they think likewise or if anything else is required. I have changed the entire page from top to bottom so the review cannot be isolated to a particular section.

Thanks, Darkwarriorblake (talk) 16:12, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

{{doing}} Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 04:29, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank you Darkwarriorblake (talk) 10:48, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Ruhrfisch comments: Thanks for your work on this, here are some suggestions for improvement with an eye to FLC.

• Lists no longer start with "This is a list of ..."
• A model article is a great idea, as you can get ideas and examples to follow from a model article. In addition to List of characters in the Uncharted series there are three other FLs that may be useful mnodels: List of Naruto characters, List of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow characters, and List of Tokyo Mew Mew characters (alhtough Castlevania is the oldest and has some things in it like starting with "This is a list..." that are not done now).
• I noticed that all four FLs on characters have both a Conception (creation) section before the list of characters, and a Reception section after the list. I would add something like this here.
• If there is merchandise associated with Scream, I would add that too - not sure what there would be (Ghostface masks?)
• I also note that the FL models do more sorting of the characters than this article does. They are often sorted into Protagonists, Antagonists and other / minor characters. I realize the characters are now sorted by movie (kind of) and are in alphabetical order by first name (which is a bit unusual - if minor characters were separated out, my guess is all the major characters have last names (except Ghostface, who has only the one name)
• One way to sort might be to have Major characters or characters who appear in all three (soon to be four) films. If all four films are included, there would only be four characters in this section (Ghostface, Dewey Gale, and Sydney). Then there could be a section with characters who were introduced in Scream, subdivided into major and minor, Scream 2 (major and minor) and Scream 3(major and minor).
• WP:LEAD sayd not to make the lead longer than 4 paragraphs - this is five.
• Also in the lead, I would identify the type of award (not just "Best Actress" - say it is a Saturn) The film series has been the recipient of several awards including a Best Actress and Best Female Performance for Neve Campbell and Best Horror Film for Scream.
• I also wonder if it would be useful to have an introductory paragraph or two about each film before the characters or perhaps before each section. This would avoid some of the needless repetition in the current version of the article (for example this would avoid the mutiple repetitions explaining that "Stab" is a fictional film with the film in Scream 3
• While it is fine to use italics for the titles of the films, WP:ITALIC sats not to use them for the names of characters, etc.
• WP:MOSQUOTE says to use "double quotes" and not 'single quotes' for quotations and titles
• For characters who have appeared in more than one of the films, I would make very clear which film the events being described occured in (this is done nicely for Sydney, not so well for Ghostface, for example).
• Several of the refs are incomplete and do not provide enough infromation. Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. {{cite web}} and other cite templates may be helpful. See WP:CITE and WP:V
• The prose is OK to good - when the other issues have been dealt with, I would get a copyedit to polish the rough spots.
• The sourcing on the lead image is problematic - I followed the link, but did not see the image there. I think I would also indicate that the images are ultimately not from a fan website, but from the move / studio.
• Make sure that the sources used meet WP:RS - blogs are not usually reliable sources, for example (though since it is the blog of the person playing one of the characters, it may be).
• Please make sure that the existing text includes no copyright violations, plagiarism, or close paraphrasing. For more information on this please see Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches. (This is a general warning given in all peer reviews, in view of previous problems that have risen over copyvios.)

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch peer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 19:35, 31 March 2011 (UTC)