Talk:Emmanuel (emu)/GA1

GA Review

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Nominator: Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk · contribs) 03:26, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: GhostRiver (talk · contribs) 20:55, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I'm GhostRiver. I'll be reviewing this article against the good article criteria. By doing so, I am earning points for the WikiCup and the January 2025 GAN Backlog Drive. Although a quid pro quo review is not necessary, it is appreciated. You can see what open good article nominations I have here.

I will go through the article section by section checking it against the criteria. Once I have finished my review, I will place the article on hold, giving you seven days to respond. If you need more time, just reach out! While I'll always put the article on hold once it's ready for you to look at, you may start making changes before I complete my review. — GhostRiver 20:55, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

@GhostRiver: Forgot to ping earlier; I have addressed your comments. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 20:44, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

Infobox and lede

• don't need the age template in the lede, only in the infobox
  • Right. fixed.
• link emu in lede
  • Done
• link "gone viral" to viral phenomenon
  • Done
• often involving the phrase "Emmanuel, don't do it!" Two notes here. First, there should be a comma after the word "phrase". Second, unclear from this sentence who is saying the sentence. Context clues are good, clarity is even better.
  • Rephrased to to which Blake often responds, "Emmanuel, don't do it!"
• She moved onto her family's farm in 2021 and set up a TikTok account for it. → After moving onto her family's farm in 2021, she established a TikTok account for the site.
  • Done
• combine two sentences into something like: That month, Blake made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, while Emmanuel was the target of a death hoax.
  • Done
• When the emu got ill in October 2022, Blake initially believed he had avian influenza before determining that he was reacting to stress. → Three months later, Emu had an avian influenza scare that was ultimately diagnosed as a stress reaction.
  • Not done. I think it's more precise to specify that Blake is the one who said it, as her tweets were the main point of coverage.

Life and career

• She began filming with the farm's animals in 2018. She and her girlfriend moved to the farm from Los Angeles in 2021 to help her grandparents with the farm. → She began filming content with the farm's animals in 2018, and in 2021, Blake and her girlfriend moved from Los Angeles to Florida to help her grandparents with Knuckle Bump Farms.
  • Done, but kept as two sentences.
• initially focusing on the cattle
  • Done
• Blake's grandmother adopted two emus, Emmanuel and Ellen, in 2015. The emus do not get along. → In 2015, Blake's grandmother adopted two emus, Emmanuel and Ellen, who do not get along with each other.
  • Done
• would actually move the sentence about the emus to right after the first sentence, because then those two lines are about the animals on the farm before we move into talking about Blake
  • Makes sense, done.
• restructure second paragraph so that we start with the first video about Emmanuel and then move into the videos writ large
  • Done
• move the third paragraph ("Blake has explained that Emmanuel's behavior...") and the last paragraph ("Emmanuel got sick in October 2022") to a separate section called "Reactions" or something similar, as those two paras deal with the overall response to the emu and should be linked
  • Done, good call.
• some MOS:LQ issues throughout - unless you're writing out a whole sentence of a quote, the period or comma goes outside the quotation marks
  • Fixed, should've proofread better.
• got sick → fell ill
  • Done
• link "pathologists" to veterinary pathology
  • Done
• risked transmission of the disease.
  • Done
• link first instance of "tweets" or "tweeted" to Twitter
  • Linked to Tweet (social media)
• if you can find a reliable source, I'd add a sentence about Emmanuel's first video post-bird flu scare in November
  • I can't find any RSes that mention this.

References and links

• References [1] (WaPo), [4] (LA Times), and [9] (NYT) should all have the "|url-access=limited" parameter added to the end
  • Done
• Alphabetize the categories
  • Done

General comments

• No stability concerns, nominator is significant contributor
• No photos, criterion 6 does not apply
• Copyvio score looks good, only flag is a direct quote