Wikipedia:Peer review/Family Guy (season 1)/archive1

Family Guy (season 1)
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because…I belive it is close to getting to an FLC stander and i wish to get it to it so i have added to the PR jope you can help me

Thanks, Pedro J.  the rookie 10:25, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Brianboulton comments; Much work has obviously gone into this. Unfortunately, it is clear that English is not the main editor's first language, and the prose needs a great deal of attention if it is to have any hope of achieving featured status. It needs a competent English prose writer to work with the main editor through the whole article to bring it to the required standard. You also need to check whether this qualifies as a "list" in WP terms. It has more prose that is usual for lists, and the list itself has only eight items.

I have made a partial list of prose problems, though this should not be taken in any way as complete; I have only read in detail down to episode 3, and even then didn't list everything. My list does however indicate the scale of the problem that needs to be addressed.


 * "employment from the company" → "employment with the company"
 * What is a "short"?
 * Done


 * While working on the series, the characters of Larry and his dog Steve slowly evolved into Peter and Brian" This reads as if the characters were working on the series
 * Done


 * "Several premises were also carried over from several 1980s Saturday morning cartoons..." Repeated "several", also repeated "namely" hereabouts.
 * Done


 * "If a majority of the writers agree on an episode idea, it is then approved..." Why present tense?
 * "Season one also saw the introduction of several new recurring characters..." - "new" is unnecessary.
 * Done


 * "...#1 in "Stewie's Top 10 Most Diobolical Evil Plans" Do not use the hash sign in prose.
 * Done


 * "...the 1998–99 United States television season" - The United States has a television season? I thought it went on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
 * You don't "receive" a total of viewers; you might "achieve" it.
 * Done


 * List of episodes: Since the numbers in the first two columns are the same, and the heading "Total" is inappropriate, why not have a single column headed "Episode number"?
 * I would oppose this reccomendation, simply because it breaks from the seven other seasons who use the two columns. They are all hubbed on the List of Family Guy episodes article, and it would be somewhat awkward to have seasons 2 through 8 use your reccomended format. So although this task was performed, I've reverted it, and think the two column should remain. Gage (talk) 01:24, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
 * "Peter claims to compile with her statement," - "comply with her request"?
 * Done


 * "and obtains a hangover" Not idiomatic; perhaps "acquires a hangover"
 * Done


 * "newfound" → "new-found"
 * Done


 * "Although distraught, Peter he resolves..." Delete "he"
 * Done


 * "...and ensures Meg a new convertible once she gets her license in exchange for taking the blame for the power outrage". I can't ally work this out, but "outrage" should be "outage"
 * Done


 * "in order to" used again and again
 * Done


 * "Meg and Lois search for Peter and Shatner, killing the former and hospitalizing the latter in the process. As Peter recovers..." "Killing the former" means Peter, so how can he recover?
 * Done


 * "as Cheesie Charlie's" → "at Cheesie Charlie's"
 * Done


 * "he decides to return out of courage to face the "Man in White" alone." I've no idea what this means
 * Done


 * "Peter invites their wife’s..." → "...wives"
 * Done. -- Pedro J. the rookie 11:44, 22 August 2010 (UTC)


 * "at his on expense" → "at his own expense"

I'm sorry to bring up so many problems, but FLC and FAC are hard places, which in each case require prose to be of a professional standard of English. Brianboulton (talk) 21:01, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I have not finished every one but please strike each one till now so i can explain, see what is left and you can add more. -- Pedro J. the rookie 23:11, 19 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Quick comment. You'd probably be better off putting the overall viewers in the episode table, in the last column. A separate table for it, especially when you only have 2 figures, really isn't worth it. That, not put them in any table since you already list them in the reception section and it's already redundant to relist them in a separate table. Since you don't have figures for every episode, it'll be a bigger problem in an FL review if you're missing more than half of the figures. It's better to probably keep them in the reception and just do away with the table itself.   BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  13:35, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Pedro J. the rookie 13:38, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Overall, it looks good. I removed the image of the actor who voices Cleveland. You have an image of MacFarlane just above it, and it tends to crowd the text to have two images so close like that with not a lot of prose in between. I took out the listing of the writers and directors because it's almost insulting to the average reader to list them in that section knowing that they are listed again in the episode table. If there was context for them, then naming specific ones would be fine, but just listing them all is unnecessary. The reception section could benefit from more paraphrasing and less direct quoting. That's about it. There was apparently some dissention over my changes to the lead paragraphs, as another editor just blindly reverted them without explanation and even put back in grammatical and HTML issues. If there are questions about my changes, I'd be happy to defend them and make concessions where necessary, but the revert seemed to me like I had messed with "someone's work" and they didn't appreciate it.   BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  00:07, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you big, i will fix the reception, do you think after these changes do you think it may have FL stranded -- Pedro J. the rookie 00:20, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I haven't done a lot of FLs, but it looks like most of the regular FL season pages that are coming out to me.   BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  00:21, 23 August 2010 (UTC)