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The Bad Girls Club (season 6)
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because, I feel as though the article is well-written (maybe need some copy-editing) but willing to take my time to fix these.

Thanks, AJona1992 (talk) 16:30, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Ruhrfisch comments: Thanks for your work on this article. I have not seen this show except for clips on The Soup. I am not clear what your goal with the article is - GA? I also do not think the article is very well-written (sorry); here are some suggestions for improvement.
 * A model article is useful for ideas and examples to follow. There are over 900 Television GAs - see Category:GA-Class television articles. One of these is Survivor: Borneo which is about one season of a reality show and may be a good model article.
 * The prose is pretty poor, sometimes to the point where I was not sure what was meant. Just in the lead, I have no idea what this sentence means Unlike previous seasons where a break in production occurred between seasons, the sixth installment was shot several months after Bad Girls Club: Miami was completed. So there is a difference with Season 6 that there was apparently no break between filming (production), but then the sentence concludes this was shot several months after the previous season was completed (which sure sounds like a break to me).
 * Similarly, I do not understand this from the Pre-Season section Casting in cities began on July 3, 2010 in Atlanta, Buffalo, Oakland, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. Applications for the show were due on July 24, 2010[1] Casting began three weeks before applications were due?
 * The level of detail is excessive (giving the address to ship audition tapes to does not need to be in the article)
 * Watch out for needless repetition - much of the material in Pre-Season is repeated in Production - the cities where there were casting calls, the deadlines. This only needs to be i nthe article once (if at all).
 * As I said, I have never watched the show and do not have a clear idea what the purpose is (besides entertainment). What do the contestants get for appearing and is there a winner? Were these all new contestants or were some from previous seasons? I think there should be a brief background paragraph or two that explains things like this.
 * Similarly, the number of episodes is usually mentioned in the lead and earlier in the article than the table at the end - even there I am confused as one table shows 13 episodes while the other (with ratings) shows 15 episodes - which is it?
 * Many of the references need access dates added.
 * There are 33 refs. 15 are from the ratings web site TV by the numbers (need to be consistent as the to name in the refs - is it "TV by the numbers" or "TVbythenumbers"?) Of the 18 refs left, 16 are from Oxygen shows or its website. Per WP:CITE, articles should try to use sources that are independent of the subject as much as possible. Except for the ratings, there are very few such third-party relaible sources.
 * imdb.com is not generally seen as a reliable source
 * The creed broke the Guinness Book of World Records for the tallest creed in history.[12] - why is this sourced to Oxygen and nopt the Guinness Book of World Records? Extraordinary claims need very solid references to back them up, not hype from the company making and airing the TV show.
 * This needs a copy edit badly - if you can't find someone to do that, try not looking at the article for several days, then printing it out and reading it aloud slowly.
 * For example, what does "underdid" mean - I am pretty sure it is not even a word. The tour of season six's mansion was released for public viewing on December 15, 2010, while Oxygen underdid their website's change for the upcoming season of Bad Girls Club.[12]
 * Avoid contractions like "aren't" in To date, television sets aren't included in the bad girls' house. Also, why use "to date" here? This is an article about a definite season, so why not say "No television sets were included in the Bad Girls House in this or any of the previous seasons."
 * Be consistent on how bad girls / Bad Girls is capitalized.
 * Make sure the lead is a summary of the whole article - the House description is quite a large section but is not really in the lead, for example.
 * Please make sure that the existing text includes no copyright violations, plagiarism, or close paraphrasing. For more information on this please see Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches. (This is a general warning given in all peer reviews, in view of previous problems that have risen over copyvios.)

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; 21:12, 1 June 2011 (UTC)


 * I have fixed all that ha been asked, however, I'm not good in prose. Is there anything else that I need to do? AJona1992 (talk) 00:34, 3 June 2011 (UTC)