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Zombie (fictional)

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I've listed this article for peer review because I have been consolidating its information for the last several weeks. I feel that a great deal of good work has been done by previous editors, and the information is of good quality and well-sourced. It was, however, poorly organised; spread over three different articles with much overlap and little clarity as to jurisdiction. Now that it has been brought together, I was wondering if it might eventually be promoted to a higher class, possibly GA.

Thanks, Serendi ^pod ous 22:14, 2 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Lead's too short per WP:LEAD for an article of this length.
Avoid bold links in the lead per the MOS.
"Half Life" is a dab.
We shouldn't have inline external links like ""The Death of Halpin Frayser".
Our article just calls it the Epic of Gilgamesh, not The Epic of Gilgamesh.
"works couldn't be properly " avoid contractions.
Avoid overlinking, e.g. George A. Romero is linked twice in quick succession, as is his Night of the Living Dead...
Avoid linking common words like "disease".
Para starting "The 1954 publication ..." is entirely unreferenced.
Zombi II is (according to our article) actually Zombi 2.
"countries.)[23]" not sure that's where the full stop should go.
"RotLD " put this in parentheses after the expanded version if you're going to use (a non-standard!) abbreviation.
the Evil Dead series is actually The Evil Dead series.
Other paragraphs without reference, I would suggest for a GA that any sentence/para making a claim needs to be verifiable.
"the "zombie apocalypse", " no need for this text to be in bold.
"it wouldn't be " again, avoid contractions.
New York Times should be The New York Times.
War of the Worlds should be The War of the Worlds.
Similarly for the other literary titles.
In comics and In television sections are entirely unreferenced (apart from YuYu Hakusho which for some reason has three references).
"game - was an " should be an en-dash.
Fix the [when] tag".
In music section is borderline a list of trivia.
A zombie walk in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. no period required.
Avoid bare URLs in the refs.
"2011-10=02." should be a - not a =.
Online refs should have publisher, author, access date, publication date information where appropriate.
Don't mix date formats in the refs.
Check titles of refs for comlpliance with WP:DASH.
Be consistent with author names, either first last or last, first.

The Rambling Man (talk) 12:02, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]