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Reviewer: Sadads ( talk) 19:28, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I am User:Sadads and I will be reviewing your article per the GA criteria. Below is an outline which I will use to check off criteria that are covered/completed. I and only I can check it off. Below the criteria section I will make comments about what I think is right/wrong with the article. I do not automatically fail GA articles unless they have too substantial gaps in content. Please be patient, the coming week I have several major things happening in my real life (including a number of major papers/projects), but I wanted to take this article, it sounds interesting.
A little information on myself: I am a student of History and Literature, working on my BA in both subjects. I am also an active participant in WP:Novels and a coordinator for several task forces there. I have experience in Modern literature and History, though my focus is generally on modern African literature and Early modern history. I hope I can bring this experience to my review. If at any time you wish to request another reviewer, I totally understand, however I do not foresee that need. If I am negligent for any reason please contact me on my talk page.
I noticed this article is part of an educational assignment. I will try my best to guide you through any changes that ought to be made. Please note, however that I too am a student taking finals so that this review may not be complete until the first week of May. As I mention above feel free to request another reviewer.
Note:If I fail something, that just means it needs to be worked on, not that it automatically fails the review.
First things first. You do not need to include a full citation in the ref template notes if you are going to include it in the bibliography. Unlike Chicago style, you don't need to give the full reference in a note: all the citation information is on the same page. You can just say "Author Page#" on all of them. Sadads ( talk) 19:40, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
I moved the about the author section to a main article. The beauty of Wikipedia is that you can have an article about everything, as long as it is notable. Please make sure that I am not butchering your research. I also moved the background before the plot because it is background, no? I put Reichert's learning of the events in as you wrote it but as a follow up to the history section.
Good start. Will continue working on the article with you. Sadads ( talk) 20:02, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
I would suggest fully integrating the character section into the plot. The list, as it is now, adds no meaningful content to the article, and seems to focus on a bunch of secondary characters. Sadads ( talk) 20:41, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
The plot section is a little lengthy and ought to be cut down some. Cut as much as you can without changing the meaningful content, or cut the content that doesn't effect the interpretations presented in the themes and style section, understanding of the story or otherwise meaningful or mentioned things in the scholarship. Sadads ( talk) 20:56, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
The style section is pretty good, am going to look at your sources esp. Encyclopedia Brittanica. Brittanica doesn't always do a very good job working with fiction. Sadads ( talk) 21:33, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
So the themes section seems to have a lot of WP:Original Research type stuff in it. I am not sure what you are doing, but we could really afford to tone down the interpretive language in the following phrases, find sources which explicitly use these examples and/or remove citations for the novel to decrease worry:
This section appears to be chock full of WP:Original Research. Unless a reviewer explicitly compares Reichert to these other authors, we as Wikipedia writers don't have the liberty to make these claims, even if they could very well be made. Either find a review which explicitly states that she writes like them, or leave it out. Sadads ( talk) 21:47, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
The language has some problems. I am going to recommend the article to a copy editor who I have worked with before and will do as much as I can. Sadads ( talk) 20:44, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
FYI, external links don't need a | between the link and the title that supplements the link. For more information check out Wikipedia:External_links#How_to_link for more info. Sadads ( talk) 21:41, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
I would really suggest expanding the number of reviews which you use for the article: I noticed that you use none from newspapers and sources like http://www.malca.org/ta/v2/2-06krick.pdf list a number which you have not touched. Also their is a pretty full book review at a book at google books. I will bow to your own experience with the scholarship, but it seems like you don't reference very often, even though you have a lot of sources. Again this makes me wonder if you are doing Original Research or not. I know I am harping on this, but it is a safeguard within Wikipedia to guarantee quality in articles. Sadads ( talk) 21:59, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
I am failing this article, per the lack of response to the review. If the Auntieruth or her students would like to reopen per the suggestions left on the talk page, we can do so. Sadads ( talk) 16:24, 16 May 2010 (UTC)