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Canada (novel)
Created/expanded by Tokyogirl79 (talk). Self nom at 06:30, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
 * ... that Richard Ford's critically acclaimed novel Canada took him twenty years to write?


 * Symbol question.svg The article was 185 B (32 words) of readable prose before Tokyogirl79 began expanding it on 2012-11-05. Now it's 1746 B (293 words), a 9.5-time expansion, making it just long enough for qualification.  Lots of references—I hope they get used to make the article a bit more substantial.
 * Is "critically acclaimed" necessary? Doesn't it violate WP:NPOV?  How about just "that Richard Ford's novel Canada took twenty years to write?"  Curly Turkey (gobble) 05:03, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes and no. The term "critically acclaimed" can be removed if you really want, but considering that I went through about 10+ reviews for the book (not all of which are in the article, obviously) and all of them were positive with little negative criticism, I think that defines the term "critically acclaimed". All the term means, when you boil it down, is that the book was well received by critics. It's not really a non-NPOV thing as much as it's just a summing up of the critic reviews.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 05:12, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, if nobody else objects, I won't either, but I do think it's unnecessary. Curly Turkey (gobble)
 * Then just remove it. I don't particularly care if it's there or not in the end, but I do sort of dislike that stating "critically acclaimed" is automatically considered to be non-neutral. It's a description just as much as anything else.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 05:40, 9 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Article approved per Curly Turkey; leaving it to promoter to decide whether hook's "critically acclaimed" should be retained or removed. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:52, 22 November 2012 (UTC)