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National Film Award for Best Actor
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because I want to know what needs to be done to make it a FL. This is a first time I'm trying for any non-sport article, and honestly I'm not much aware of the subject. This award is like Oscar or BAFTA of Indian film industry. All feedback and suggestions are welcomed!.

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 * For the PDF citations, I would put the name of the particular award ceremony that it is referencing in order to remove redundancy and make it clearer. For example, instead of "Award for Best Actor" as the citation title, I would put something like, "31st National Film Festival (June 1984). DrNegative (talk) 00:02, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Ruhrfisch comments: Thanks for your work on this interesting article. Here are some suggestions for improvement with an eye to FLC. Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch peer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours, Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 03:59, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * A model article is useful for ideas and examples to follow. Since you compared this to the Oscars or BAFTAs, there are some FLs that may be useful models. List of actors nominated for two Academy Awards in the same year and List of actors nominated for Academy Awards for foreign language performances are lists of actors nominated for Oscars, while List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film may be useful as it lists all nominees and winners in a category.
 * The lead is too short and does not follow WP:LEAD. The lead should be an accessible and inviting overview of the whole article. Nothing important should be in the lead only - since it is a summary, it should all be repeated in the body of the article itself. My rule of thumb is to include every header in the lead in some way.
 * I would explain how an actor can win for two films in a single year (1968, 1990, 1994) and also how two actors can share the award in a single year (1998, 1999, 2011). As someone used to the Oscars, where neither of these can happen, I thought this was interesting / unusual.
 * For those years where an actor won for two films, I would make it clearer what the two films were - on my browser the column for the film titles is fairly narrow so that the names are often on two or three lines. Conversely the actors names have lots of extra space (and the overall table is not 100% wide on my monitor). I would make the column for titles wider to better accommodate these.
 * The column for titles is labeled "Film" - since more than one is listed in six cases, shouldn't it be "Film(s)"?
 * The three years where there were two joint winners are especially confusing as the names of the actors are right on top of each other, as are the titles of their films. I would see if a line or space could be added between the two better separate them. So for example on my monitor "Adaminte Makan" are one line and "Abu" are on another line, so I was not sure if it was for one film or two.
 * Are nominees announced, or just the winner(s)?
 * Almost all of the sources are to the award's own websites - aren't there any histories of Indian film that could be cited?
 * The many PDFs with the same title are incorrect - when you look at the PDF itself, the title is customized (in this example) 52nd National Film Awards 2005
 * If there are articles on the overall awards each year, those could be linked via the year
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