Talk:The Playboy/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Resolute (talk · contribs) 00:26, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose, no copyvios, spelling and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

General

• Not required for GA, but per WP:ACCESS, alt text for images is encouraged.
• Done. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 08:51, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
• Images are properly marked as fair use, and are relevant to the prose in article
• References appear reliable and high quality
  • The cite for Canadian Art is showing a missing title error.
    • Fixed. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 08:51, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Background

• Stylistic complaint only, but I am not a big fan of putting cites in the middle of sentences where there is no punctuation break. i.e.: "He moved to Toronto and discovered underground comix[3] and the small-press community." Does cite 3 support the entire sentence, and could it not be moved to the end of it?
  • No, it only cites the one part of the sentence. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 08:51, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Style and analysis

• "Brown had grown dissatisfied with his drawing style and had been simplifying since bringing Ed the Happy Clown to an end, as he had been reading work by cartoonists with simple styles such as John Stanley and Brown's friend Seth." - this feels like a run-on sentence. Is there a way to break it in two?
  • Better? Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 08:51, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
• "Darcy Sullivan sees Brown in this scene having "shunted aside his painful feelings for her, and for other women, in favor of this tatty fetish"." - Sullivan has not been introduced at this point, so I had no idea who he was; a character in the story or a real world person. Perhaps note here that he is a literary critic.
  • Noted he wasa comics critic. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 08:51, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
• "...Joe Matt's less-subtle work,..." - What was the title of Matt's work?
  • This is meant to refer to his work in general, so I've rephrased to "body of work". Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 08:51, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Publication

• Not a complaint about this article and doesn't need to be changed, but I think you might have unintentionally added some commentary on modern society and communication. I literally laughed out loud at the fact you felt the need to add mouseover text for "#" to explain this means "number".
• "...Brown switched publishers to the Montreal-based Drawn and Quarterly .[6] who published the collected edition of..." - Either a stray period before the citation, or an improperly constructed start to a sentence.
  • Fixed. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 08:51, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Overall

Unsurprisingly, this article is pretty much already on the cusp of GA quality. Just a couple small nitpicks above, for which I will place the article on hold for the moment. Cheers! Resolute 00:26, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks a bundle for the review! Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 08:51, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
  • You're welcome, and passing! Resolute 14:45, 25 April 2015 (UTC)