Wikipedia:Peer review/Sesame Street/archive2

Sesame Street
Twice on peer review before, only once was there response. I just really wanna get featured status for this article. Check out the "Characters" section, a 360 from the original list! Be vicious, be ruthless, I just want this up to par... -- useR:zanimum 21:22, Jun 8, 2005


 * Generally pretty good. Good work!  However, in the classic skin, I see a block of 8 images before I see any text; the lead is rather short; and the text is rather choppy in places, with one sentence paragraphs which could be consolidated or expanded.  -- ALoan (Talk) 11:06, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Much improved, but I agree the lead section could be longer. Mgm|(talk) 09:09, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Instead of expanding it, would merging it with "Overview" work? --  user:zanimum
 * On an aesthetic level, it could work better if you space out the pictures along the right hand side so that they don't clog up the first half of the article and leave the rest as just text. A minor point, but everything is scrutinised on FAC (even if it takes a while to get good comments here - I'll help if I can!). Harro5 07:21, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Balanced that all out. I had them all as one clump, because they're part of a template, to lower the articles KBs. --  user:zanimum
 * Another little thing: there seems to be an awful lot of unnecessary red links. Ingrid? PBS Research? Mail-It Shop? It is fair enough to have red links for character names (it wouldn't hurt if you wrote pieces, even good short stubs, to make them blue links) but some of the red links in the Muppets and Humans sections aren't needed. Harro5 07:26, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * I've cleared up a lot of red links, many just redirects to a list of characters mentioning the one I redirected from, and including a sentence or two. Things like PBS Research I've unlinked, they're unlikely to ever become articles. Mail-It Shop and Fix-It Shop will come eventually, they're both important to the show, but hard to write about without understating. --  user:zanimum
 * "Through its worldwide influence, Sesame Street and other Sesame Workshop productions have earned the distinction of being considered the world's single greatest "educator", by viewers, international recognition, and success." This sentence introduces paragraph three of the introduction. "Through" seems inappropriate here; perhaps "Because of" or "In recognition of" or "As a result of", might be more acceptable. There is also the problem of several things being described as "the world's single greatest "educator""; perhaps "have collectively earned . . .", or some similar expression might make this paragraph more worthy. And "the world's single greatest "educator"" is certainly a matter of debate; where and by what authority has Sesame Street been objectively described as such? In the minds of most Christians, this "title" would belong to Jesus Christ; perhaps "one of the world's greatest educators" would be more acceptable to all who read this article. Finally, the expression "by viewers, international recognition, and success" is very confusing and difficult to understand in it's context. Clarification would allow understanding to come more easily to the reader. RogerK 05:14, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)