Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/A Series of Unfortunate Events/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted 16:31, 31 March 2007.

A Series of Unfortunate Events
It has been the goal of Wikiproject A Series of Unfortunate Events to get A Series of Unfortunate Events to featured status since the establishment of the wikiproject. The page has gone through extensive revisions, additions, and ommisions, and I think it finally is at the featured status level. It had been peer-reviewed twice, Peer review/A Series of Unfortunate Events/archive2 and Peer review/A Series of Unfortunate Events/archive1. The suggestions given in the reviews helped guide regular editors of the page to pinpoint where improvements were needed. The subject of the page is a children's book series contained 13 main books and several spin-off books. It is extremely popular in the United States and Great Britian. Such a great series deserves a great Wikipedia article. I think the article finally lives up to the series. <3 Clamster 01:52, 26 March 2007 (UTC) All in all, the article is salvageable, and with some spit and polish it'll come through. Look through some articles like Harry Potter (Not FA, but something to aspire to for book-related franchises nonetheless) for inspiration. Good luck! Nall 06:40, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Sorry, not even close right now. Incredibly weak referencing throughout the article, no fair use rationales on images, stubby history section. Good start, but not FA. --- RockMFR 03:11, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I agree, good start, but you need to make some changes.
 * The "Genre" section needs expanding. Other examples of Steampunk are not needed, since the steampunk article would give that information.
 * The "Allusions" section is listy. Expand this into prose.
 * Cite, cite, cite! You have 13 references, that's a good start, but you're going to need to cite more often.  The settings, themes, and storyline sections have references at all, and several claims are unattributed.  Consult Template:cite web for proper formatting as well - It's not required for FA, but it is well liked by reviewers!
 * A Reception section would be a good addition. Event though this is a series article not related to any one media, there may be info the general reaction to ASOUE.
 * If you want a peer review, now would be the time to get it while the article is still listed and changes can be addressed.
 * Comment - see WP:IDP for a more information on how to make good fair use rationales. The references need more details - like author, date, and last accessed date.  You can look at WP:CITE to find out how to make the references format better.  You may want to make the (specific, listy) 'Awards' section into a (more general, prosey) 'Reception' section, in which you can talk about sales, reviews and awards for the series.  Look at other children's literature FAs, like Make Way for Ducklings and see how they do things.- Malkinann 07:00, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose Basically echoing the same things mentioned above, refs need details, one sentence paragraphs make the article fail criteria 1, and the article could use more sources. M3tal H3ad 11:16, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I won't repeat what's above, but given that my line of work is directly involved with this series, there's a lot more that can and should be said, and perhaps a lot here that shouldn't (Snicket-as-steampunk is especially unnerving to me, for instance).  I'd love to help more with this though in the coming weeks, I've watchlisted in the meantime. --badlydrawnjeff talk 20:52, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.