User talk:Vanished user 7449738/Escape from L.A.

Green light
Hi William,

Prof H. asked me to go through the class and see who has received peer reviews and made revisions accordingly, and then "green light" them on the Talk Page of their sandbox draft to move their draft into the live Wikipedia article. With that said, you seem to have accomplished some revising, so after double checking for formatting, grammar, and style, you can begin publishing live on Wikipedia. (See the "Moving work out of the sandbox" module for more detailed instructions, if you haven't viewed it already.)

As far as your peer reviews, I think they were pretty spot-on... I know one mentioned that your changes to the Plot section were minimal, but they didn't critique that choice, and neither would I. I appreciate that you recognized where you could make improvements and where the article was fine as it was. Personally, I think your article is coming along fantastically, and (frankly) I can't say I've said that about every draft I've seen.

Regarding your concerns about your citations being culled, I wouldn't worry too much about it. I don't believe Prof. H will be factoring that sort of thing into grading at all. Maybe it's just because I'm a fan of Bojack Horseman (there's an episode that borrows its name Escape from L.A.), but I don't think it's entirely "lesser-known."

One thing I've noticed with students working on film articles vs. book articles, and looking over the film articles themselves, is that the sources for the film articles on Wikipedia, even on Featured Articles, tend to be less of the academic, peer-reviewed types and more of the entertainment industry publication types. I don't think this is 100% the vision for what Prof. H envisioned for this assignment, but it will still work, and I think he'll be impressed with the effort you've put in and the results.

But anyway, if you're still concerned about reliability of sources, I'd recommend just going with some of the most recognizable publications and figures in the film industry for your sources. Film reviews are going to be the most easily accessed, I think. I'll provide some ideas below, but feel free to message or email me again if you want more guidance. A lot of these I was able to find by using clicking the "Tools" box after my Google search and refining the dates to 1994 to 1998, just fyi!

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/escape-from-la-1996

https://variety.com/1996/film/reviews/john-carpenter-s-escape-from-l-a-1200446444/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/review96/escapefromlahowe.htm

https://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/646801

https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-REVIEW-The-Ocean-Falls-Into-L-A-2971032.php

https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/1996-09-20/525351/

--Sjnickerson (talk) 07:24, 19 April 2022 (UTC)