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July 22, 2012Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 20, 2012.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Millennium's casting director guest starred in "Beware of the Dog"?

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Beware of the Dog (Millennium)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: TBrandley (talk · contribs) 15:08, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Issues

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General

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  • No dab links. Great work!
  • No dead links. Great work!

Infobox

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  • Is there a possible non-free image to add?
    Not sure one would be able to meet WP:NFCC; nothing concrete enough to be illustrated by one frame is mentioned in secondary sources and the major plot points (dogs, old man, dogs again) are readily imaginable through words alone. There is a free image breaking up the text already. GRAPPLE X 03:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Add "running time"
    Done. GRAPPLE X 03:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • References for "Guest stars"?
    Don't have a secondary source for it but the episode itself credits them, serving as its own source (though it need not be specifically cited as it's needlessly circular to cite the subject of its own article). GRAPPLE X 03:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lede

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  • Unlink United States per WP:OVERLINK (Television in the United States would be same)
    Removed. GRAPPLE X 03:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • An episode can't really "premiered" how about "originally aired, first aired, etc."
    Addressed below. GRAPPLE X 03:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • "When offender profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) investigates several killings by a pack of savage dogs, he discovers a strange old man who teaches him more than he ever knew about the Millennium Group." Perhaps "The show centers on X. In this episode, offender profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) investigates several killings by a pack of savage dogs, he discovers a strange old man who teaches him more than he ever knew about the Millennium Group
    Done. GRAPPLE X 03:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • critics → television critics
    Added. GRAPPLE X 03:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Plot

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Production

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Broadcast and reception

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  • "first broadcast" → originally aired" per the above
    Done, for whatever difference it makes. 03:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
  • "The episode earned a Nielsen rating of 6.5 during its original broadcast, meaning that 6.5 percent of households in the United States viewed the episode. This represented approximately 6.37 million households, and left the episode the sixty-ninth most-viewed broadcast that week". Rewrite: "The episode's initial broadcast was viewed by approximately 6.37 million households, making it the sixty-ninth most-viewed episode that week. "Beware of the Dog" earned a Nielsen rating of 6.5, with a X share, meaning that roughly 6.5 percent of all television-equipped households, and X percent of households watching television, were tuned in to the episode". X should be the episode's Nielsen share
    Mentioned below, have no information on share to add. GRAPPLE X 03:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Try to add UK airing
    Again, no source for this. GRAPPLE X 03:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • critics → television critics
    Done. GRAPPLE X 03:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • "rated the episode a B+", how about: "gave the episode a "B+"
    Done. GRAPPLE X 03:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • The A.V. Club's Zack Handlen rated the episode a B+, finding it "endearingly batshit". should be ref after, although its below
    Duplicated the ref after the quote. GRAPPLE X 03:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • There are way to many uses of the word "rated" perhaps something else for some
    One instance changed per above; another changed to "awarded". GRAPPLE X 03:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Notes

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Footnotes

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  • Is missing an "External links" section. As a short article, it is much needed. Add The X-Files Wiki, IMDb, X-Files.com, and TV.com episode links.
    Added the three that I could. GRAPPLE X 03:42, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

On hold. Great work! TBrandley 15:40, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • I'm working on something at the minute but I will get to this hopefully this evening. For what it's worth there'll be no X-Files.com material for this, as it's not The X-Files (loosely described as a spin-off, but not really covered by the same site); and premiere can be used as a verb, denoting the first broadcast or screening of something (cf/ Squeeze (The X-Files) for similar usage). There's also no reliable source for a Nielson share, just the rating (the top few broadcasts have full ratings information but as the list goes on it simply gives a rank and a rating). Same goes for UK broadcasts; I genuinely have no idea where or even if it broadcast outside of the US. GRAPPLE X 21:57, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]