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References to use
Please add to the list references that can be used for the film article.
Booker, M. Keith (2007). "The Superman film franchise". May Contain Graphic Material: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Film. Praeger.
ISBN978-0-275-99386-3.
Cargal, Timothy B. (2007). "Dialogues with Two Superheroes—Spider-Man and Superman Returns". Hearing a Film, Seeing a Sermon: Preaching and Popular Movies. Westminster John Knox Press. pp. 103–116.
ISBN978-0-664-22951-1.
Toh, Justine (2009). "'People have had enough tragedy': The spectacle of global heroism in Superman Returns". The War on Terror and American Popular Culture: September 11 and Beyond. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
ISBN978-0-8386-4207-8.
Lead contains information that is not in the body (such as D.C Comics)
The word reboot is an odd word; colloquial/industry term? needs clarification
Done I don't think it's necessary to mention D.C. Comics in the article body.
Wildroot (
talk) 06:14, 26 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Plot
The plot seems a little too long. The plot should briefly tell the summary of the movie, not the entire movie.
Agreed. It's kinda long. I'll make sure it will meet the
style guideline requirements (between 400 and 700 words).
Wildroot (
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In the plot, I think more context would help; I appreciate it is a sequel etc, but a little bit of background would help; at present, it assumes lots of knowledge. For users who nothing about Superman, they need to know, who is Superman, who is Kent, who is Louis, etc?
Maybe even a brief resume of the story-so-far would help
These comments contradict your first concern with the Plot, which you argue is already too long (which I agree).
Wildroot (
talk) 02:11, 24 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Done Wildroot did it.
Cast
One of the characters in the plot is missing a bullet. If you are going to put bullets for characters, put it for all of them.
Not every single supporting, insignificant role has to be covered with a bullet.
Wildroot (
talk) 02:11, 24 September 2009 (UTC)reply
It is better if you keep it consistent. Having all of the characters in one sentence bullets, and then having one character with a paragraph and no bullet makes the last one stand out too much. warrior4321 00:32, 27 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Cast is pretty confusing, e.g. "Brandon Routh as Clark Kent / Superman: Stephan Bender portrays teenage Clark Kent..."
"McG was signed to direct with a script by J. J. Abrams. A target June 2006 theatrical release date was put in motion. However, McG dropped out in June 2004."
How about "McG was signed to direct with a script by J.J. Abrams, but McG dropped out. Nonetheless, a target theatrical release date of June 2006 was created"?
Any info about spin-offs, marketing, toys, promotional tie-ins?
Done
Some information about the video game should be included
Done
Information about the sound effects
Not relevant for this movie.
Information about the DVD release
Done
I am placing the article on hold for now. Please address these problems for the article to pass. Thanks. warrior4321 02:50, 12 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the review, but you must recognize that this is only a GA review. Your concerns with
Additional Info and "Try adding some of the books in further reading as references" would be addressed seriously in a Featured Article review and are not required for a Good article with 71 references. I will finish addressing the rest of the concerns today, as well information about the DVD release.
Wildroot (
talk) 17:21, 19 September 2009 (UTC)reply
It's been 10 days since this GA review was put on hold, and I see attempts going to address any of the concerns I noted out to be going very slowly. If by Friday, I do not see proper improvement to this article, I will have to fail this GA nomination. If you are going to nominate an article and want it to pass, at least be ready to fix the problems, the reviewer suggests. Sure, some of my comments are for passing an FA article, but a lot isn't. I will this is more than fair, if you feel it isn't, take this to
WP:GAR. As well, I am reviewing a few other articles at the same time, and cannot keep tracks of edits which are addressing the concerns. If anything from my review has been addressed, please place a * {{done}} underneath my comment. warrior4321 00:08, 23 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Igordebraga addressed a lot of your concerns. I am not sure if you noticed. Anyway, sorry for the pushed-back timing. I think I can get this finished by Friday. Cheers.
Wildroot (
talk) 02:11, 24 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Put other {{done}} tags where they weren't, even though it was fixed.
igordebraga≠ 16:17, 30 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Since everything is fixed, I will now pass this article. Congratulations and well done! warrior4321 23:39, 30 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Arrowverse
Should we mention something in this article about Routh reprising his role as Superman for the upcoming arrowverse crossover. — Preceding
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Under [CAST] Section: Please add: "Brandon also had to wear blue-coloured contact lenses, as his natural eye color is brown."
Thyon (
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Brobginian: It would help if you would cite or point to the source(s) that criticize this as all I'm seeing is criticism of Routh's acting and lack of charisma.
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