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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
I've listed this article for peer review because I want to know how I should improve it to bring it towards GA status.

Thanks, blohod   let's chat about stuff 00:38, 14 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello, -- I'll confess I haven't done a peer review before so may not have the format right, but I notice you haven't gotten any feedback yet. This may be because the article is actually (to my eyes) pretty solid, without obvious glaring issues. Since the Good Article criteria are a little generous, it may already be able to reach that status.
 * Nonetheless, I can see ways in which the article feels brief or underdeveloped. If you wanted to continue to work on it, I would encourage you to look for ways to develop the prose into fuller paragraph format, rather than scattered sentences. For the synopsis, for example, you could describe the typical "pattern" of a chapter. The "production" section could probably be renamed as "composition" or "research," and perhaps could put together the chronological timeline of the book's development. It could also be useful to have a "background" section which introduces Randall Munroe (or maybe do that in the "composition" section) -- somewhere or other, at least, it would be helpful to give a few sentences context about who he is. Similarly, perhaps the "reception" section could include comparisons to his other books? Has it won any awards or been on any bestseller lists?
 * On a more minor note, this wording is a little weird: "first published book since Thing Explainer" -- Thing Explainer wasn't that long ago so it doesn't feel like being the first since that one is a big deal. Rather, it seems more normal to say that it is his third book, following Thing Explainer.
 * As I said, though, the article already covers the big stuff quite solidly! I don't think the article is incomplete without these kinds of expansions, I was just trying to think of where I saw space to do more. ~ oulfis 🌸 (talk) 08:21, 9 June 2020 (UTC)