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Reviewer: Cirt ( talk · contribs) 01:19, 12 October 2015 (UTC) reply


Good article nomination on hold

This article's Good Article nomination has been put on hold. During review, some issues were discovered that can be resolved without a major re-write. This is how the article, as of October 12, 2015, compares against the six good article criteria:

1. Well written?:
  1. NOTE: Please respond, below the entire review, and not interspersed throughout, thanks!
  2. Personal life = suggest change sect name to Early life and family.
  3. Per WP:LEAD, please consider adding just a tad bit of info about his early life and family to the lede intro sect.
  4. Perhaps add See also sect for other notable game-show contestants of similar shows or just from the same show that aren't mentioned already in article body text.
  5. External links = you could add links to his authored-article links (usually they have one link to see all articles by same author) and/or profile page at those sites, for Salon and The Daily Beast.
2. Verifiable?:
  1. A few issues here = please format the refs properly, for major publications use work field instead of publisher field. One example = Mother Jones is cited as if the work is Motherjones.com and this is inaccurate. Please correct all of these. Especially for notable works (that should be wikilinked), no need to use publisher field at all here.
  2. As it's a smaller article, please go through using fields archivedate and archiveurl and archive all hyperlinks to Internet Archive, to increase posterity over time.
  3. Second and third place contestants of each game earn only $2,000 and $1,000 regardless of their final score. = please add in-line cite to back up this assertion of fact.
  4. Chu defeated Collins on the January 30 episode. = please add in-line cite to back this up at end of this sentence.
  5. Notes = please change title of this sect to Footnotes and then make it its own level-2 section.
  6. References = please make this its own level-2 subsection.
  7. Please wikilink notable works in citations like The New Yorker, for example.
3. Broad in coverage?:
  1. What year did he get married?
  2. Parents names and maybe some brief info on each, place of birth?
  3. Mother's occupation?
  4. What year did he receive his B.A. in History?
  5. What type of stuff has he done as a voiceover artist? Anything interesting or noteworthy?
4. Neutral point of view?: Both my inspection of the article edit history, and talk page discussion, shows a prior concern was in the end successfully addressed to the satisfaction of all parties involved. The article works the criticism of his gameplay style directly into the article body text in a matter-of-fact manner that is indeed neutral in tone to the reader.
5. Stable?
  1. Inspection of article edit history shows one (1) stray IP edit that was handled promptly by GA Nominator on 22 September 2015. Otherwise, stable for at least a few months.
  2. Talk page shows back-and-forth discussion about wording that was amicably resolved to all parties satisfaction in March 2015.
  3. Therefore, no ongoing issues with stability.
6. Images?:
  1. File:Arthur Chu vs. drone, March 2015.jpg = Green tickY = from Wikimedia Commons, originally from Flickr, reviewed okay on image page.
  2. File:Arthur Chu and Eliza Blair, March 2015.jpg = Green tickY = also from Commons, from same author at Flickr, no problems here.


#NOTE: Please respond, below the entire review, and not interspersed throughout, thanks!

Please address these matters soon and then leave a note here showing how they have been resolved. Within 7 days, the article should be reviewed again. If these issues are not addressed by then, the article may be failed without further notice. Thank you for your work so far. — Cirt ( talk) 01:19, 12 October 2015 (UTC) reply

@ Cirt: Thanks! I'm busy with other things at the moment, but give me a week and I'll find some time to do some more research I'm sure. Thanks, -- Bentvfan54321 ( talk) 01:31, 12 October 2015 (UTC) reply
Okay, sounds good, but please keep in mind you have Seven Days. After the time period of Seven Days I don't know what could happen. We could all go back in time and become chrononauts or something. Just so ya know. And please keep me posted back here at this page once you're all done with above, with a ping if you like. Good luck. Cirt ( talk) 01:37, 12 October 2015 (UTC) reply
One last note: Please, consider reviewing two (2) WP:GAN candidates, for every one that you nominate. Thank you, — Cirt ( talk) 06:54, 13 October 2015 (UTC) reply
@ Cirt: I want to thank you for your work in reviewing; I'll try to pick up a couple soon, it's just that I don't really enjoy reviewing as much because I'm always worried I'll miss something important (clearly, as you can see, I've missed a lot here). Regarding the article at hand, to update, I believe I've fixed all the problems under section one and two, except for archiving the links, which I'll get to as soon as I can. I'll try to answer as many of the "broad" questions as possible, but again, it's been a while since I looked at the refs so I'm not sure I'll be able everything. Thanks again, -- Bentvfan54321 ( talk) 00:49, 17 October 2015 (UTC) reply
Okay, no worries, my idea was only to give a suggestion as an option to consider and think about as a suggested notion only. It's enough if you've gone to WP:GAREV and familiarized yourself with actually how to review and read over the instructions, you don't have to actually do any, that's up to you, as a way to think about paying it forward -- sound good? — Cirt ( talk) 00:51, 17 October 2015 (UTC) reply
Thanks again, could not find his mother's occupation but expanded the information as much as I could. It looks like his voice over work has mostly been minor; supposedly he had a (very) small role in Cleanland (Bang), a film that doesn't even have a WP article to start with. Let me know if you need anything else; all the links are archived except for the Washington Post refs, which cannot be crawled due to robots.txt. Thanks, -- Bentvfan54321 ( talk) 03:20, 17 October 2015 (UTC) reply

Passed as GA

My thanks to GA Nominator for being so polite and responsive to GA Reviewer recommendations, above. — Cirt ( talk) 03:28, 17 October 2015 (UTC) reply