Talk:Son of a Gun (Homicide: Life on the Street)

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Son of a Gun (Homicide: Life on the Street) is part of the Homicide: Life on the Street (season 1) series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
April 18, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed
April 20, 2011	Good topic candidate	Promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 19, 2009.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that as a struggling actor in 1993, Edie Falco paid for a month's rent by appearing in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, "Son of a Gun"?

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Son of a Gun (Homicide: Life on the Street)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Xtzou (Talk) 22:35, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I am reviewing this article and have found a few nitpicks. Xtzou (Talk) 22:35, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

""Son of a Gun" was written by James Yoshimura based on a story by executive producer Tom Fontana, and was directed by Nick Gomez. It was the first Homicide: Life on the Street episode written by Yoshimura, who would serve as a writer and eventually supervising producer throughout the entirety of the series.[1] "Son of a Gun" featured a blending of hard-edged emotion and amusing character comedy, the combination of which would become common in future Yoshimura-penned episodes.[2] "Son of a Gun" was originally supposed to be the fourth episode of the first season of Homicide:" - Three out of four sentences contain the article name.
- Fixed. — Hun ter Ka hn 03:52, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Having read a couple of the articles now on this TV series, it there any explanation for why the episodes are continuing a downward trend in viewership, despite raves by critics?
- Not that I've found, at least not at this early stage in the series... — Hun ter Ka hn 03:52, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Everything else about the article seems fine. Xtzou (Talk) 22:51, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review! — Hun ter Ka hn 03:52, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the article. Xtzou (Talk) 13:18, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
I corrected a few minor wording and punctuation issues.
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
Article is well sourced. I see no original research.
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
The article remains focused on the subject but covers the relevant areas.
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars etc.:
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall: A wonderful, concise article
Pass/Fail:

A fine GA. Congratulations! Xtzou (Talk) 13:18, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]