Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/True Detective (season 1)/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 archived by Graham Beards via FACBot (talk) 23:27, 14 November 2015.

True Detective (season 1)

 * Nominator(s): ðάπι (talk) 20:39, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

This article is about the first season of HBO's anthology crime drama True Detective, which was created by Nic Pizzolatto and starred Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan, Tory Kittles, and Michael Potts. Its story follows McConaughey (as detective Rustin Cohle) and Harrelson (as Martin Hart) and their pursuit of a serial killer over a seventeen year period. The article went through and passed its GAN about two months ago and has been further polished since, thanks to a peer review and a copy edit from a member of the Guild of Copy Editors. True Detective first season is beautifully shot, acted, and in truth one of my favorite shows ever, and I hope its namesake article does it justice. Cheers! DAP388 (talk) 20:39, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Comments from Cirt
Comments (having stumbled here from my FAC) &mdash; Cirt (talk) 22:52, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) Thank you very much for your efforts to contribute to Quality improvement on Wikipedia, it's really most appreciated !!!
 * 2) NOTE: Please respond, below entire set of comments, and not interspersed throughout, thanks!
 * 3) Copyvio Detector - https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&title=True+Detective+%28season+1%29&oldid=&action=search&use_engine=0&use_links=1 - shows two (2) sources that could be trimmed down and or paraphrased for less quotations in article body text, these are www.lamag.com and www.motherjones.com. Please try to trim quotes or paraphrase quotes to get both of these down below 30 percent confidence value at this checklinks tool link.
 * 4) Alt links tool - http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/altviewer.py?page=True_Detective_%28season_1%29 - shows two (2) images that could use alt text.
 * 5) Citation bot - https://tools.wmflabs.org/citations/doibot.php?edit=toolbar&slow=1&page=True+Detective+%28season+1%29 - shows no changes required, good job here.
 * 6) Ref links tool - http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/reflinks.py?page=True_Detective_%28season_1%29 - shows no changes required, good job here.
 * 7) Dab links tool - http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dablinks.py?page=True_Detective_%28season_1%29 - shows no dabs required, good job here.
 * 8) Checklinks tool - http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webchecklinks.py?page=True_Detective_%28season_1%29 - shows nineteen (19) links with problems. Problem = defined as = anything other than a "200" or "0", or even a "200" value but with comments after it. All these should be archived with Wayback Machine by Internet Archive using WP:CIT template fields archiveurl and archivedate. That will fix those.
 * 9) Also, ideally all hyperlinks in article should be archived in this way, this will greatly increase article posterity over the long term.
 * 10) Image review: For fair use rationale image File:TrueDetectiveDVDCover.jpg, please strengthen fair use rationale by keeping the formatted template but adding more to argumentation in numbered list format, good model for that at File:Supergirl (title screen).jpg and File:BenoistSupergirl.jpg.
 * File:The King in Yellow.jpg - please move this image to Commons, see helpful info at Moving files to the Commons, and I would recommend User:This, that and the other/For the Common Good.
 * File:The King in Yellow.jpg - please format image page, with Template:Information.
 * 1) I spot-checked cited sources: 2, 56, and 79, all check out okay.
 * 2) WP:LEAD - good job on lede size, and flow, nice construction here.
 * 3) Production - great job overall on structural organization for this sect, nicely done.
 * 4) Music - not sure this needs a blockquote in this sect. Consider trimming, paraphrasing, and integrating into quote in article body text, rather than blockquote style.
 * 5) Themes and influences - great sect, good use of secondary sources -- but you switch back between present-tense and past-tense here in this sect. Please pick one, and go with it? Then let me know, back here, when entire sect has been modified to have one tense, without tense switching?
 * 6) Reviews - suggest, for more NPOV and neutral tone presentation, to expand last paragraph in this sect, which at this point comes across as an afterthought.
 * 7) Accolades - please add "Ref(s)" column to end of this table, and place the in-line citations in that column.
 * 8) Viewership - this should probably belong at top of Reception sect.
 * 9) Home media release - this should be moved to last part of Production sect.
 * 10) Summary: Overall, nicely done, just a few minor tweaks, as recommended, above, and then I think we're good to go here. :) Good luck !
 * 11) NOTE: Please respond, below entire set of comments, and not interspersed throughout, thanks!
 * Apologies for the slight delay, I believe all of the above issues have been addressed. I wasn't sure how to go about the King in Yellow image, considering it was a duplicate of its Wikicommons file, so I instead added a photo the author if that's okay. Thank you for your comments and taking the time to come up with an assessment. Cheers! :) DAP388 (talk) 18:26, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Closing note - Sadly, there is no consensus for promotion on this occasion.

Graham Beards (talk) 23:27, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.