Talk:The Gammage Cup/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Khazar2 (talk · contribs) 02:23, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

I'll be glad to take this review. Initial comments to follow in the next 1-3 days. Thanks in advance for your work on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 02:23, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Looking at the article, it seems off to a good start in some areas, but it appears to me that it will need substantial work in others to meet the GA criteria. The biggest issue here is that the article is mostly composed from primary sources, without basic background information such as who Kendall is. Ideally, an article about a fictional work/character/place/etc. should take the real world as its main frame of reference; this spends most of its time detailing the book's plot and fictional world.

Other issues:

• NPOV needs to be checked; opinions like "clever references" shouldn't be given in Wikipedia's voice

 Done Eatmark (talk) 18:26, 20 July 2013 (UTC)Eatmark

• inline citations with page numbers are required for quotations, such as " "[The Minnipins] fished and tended their famous watercress beds and grew their own peculiar reeds, which could be milled into flour or used fir thatching or pulped into paper or woven into cloaks of mothwing softness""

 Done Eatmark (talk) 18:26, 20 July 2013 (UTC)Eatmark

• WP:LEAD requires that the lead summarize the body without presenting new information; major facts, like a sequel, the copyright expiration, etc. shouldn't appear in the lead without appearing in more detail in the body.

' Started'StartedEatmark (talk) 19:36, 24 July 2013 (UTC)Eatmark

• More copyediting is needed. For example, punctuation is missing between these sentences, and the titles of publications should be italicized: "The New York Times Book Review called the book a "fable about conformists and non-conformists"[2] this was also noted by the reviewer from the Black Gate who saw the book as "a warning against 1950's conformist tendencies"" This lacks an initial capital letter and punctuation mark: " it was also one of Horn Book's best books of 1959 and won the Ohioana book award in 1960[8]". I assume "incident" is meant in " Kendall who found the indecent "amusing" and was not ill disposed towards either author"-- I'm also not sure what "who" is doing in that sentence. If you'd like outside assistance with this, you might put in a request at WP:GOCE.

' Started'Started Eatmark (talk) 18:26, 20 July 2013 (UTC)Eatmark

• References should contain more information than a bare URL, to avoid future dead links.

 Done Eatmark (talk) 18:26, 20 July 2013 (UTC)Eatmark

• A list of all minor characters is probably more detail than needed, which is an issue for criterion 3b.

 Done Eatmark (talk) 18:26, 20 July 2013 (UTC)Eatmark

• Unless hobbits are mentioned in the book, "The Minnipins are a race of "little people" rather like hobbits." seems to be original research; a citation should be added to verify this comparison is in reliable sources.

 Done Eatmark (talk) 18:26, 20 July 2013 (UTC)Eatmark
Because this article seems to need fairly extensive work to meet the criteria, I'm closing this review for now. But I hope you'll continue revising this one and renominate again in the future when you're ready--it sounds like an interesting book. Best of luck, and feel free to ping me if you have any questions... -- Khazar2 (talk) 02:41, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

As for the primary source issue, I'd suggest finding more works about the Gammage Cup to work from--reviews, scholarly articles (if such exist), news stories about the author, etc. These will help you determine if you need more sections or just need to add to the sections you have. And it's the same answer for whether you have "enough" content--it's not really a question of total length but if the "main aspects" are covered. If you've researched this well, and included most of what those sources have to say about Gammage Cup, then you've got enough content--there's no specific number I can give you.

Hope that helps! Thanks for your continued work on this one, -- Khazar2 (talk) 05:42, 21 July 2013 (UTC)