Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/School Rumble/archive4

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by Karanacs 01:29, 30 June 2010 [1].

School Rumble

Nominator(s): 陣内 _Jinnai 21:49, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As this article has been through 3 previous FACs I believe every issue has been addressed to the best possibility ability. The main issues that kept this from being resolved were the alt text, which is no longer an FAC criteria, the number of cited sources after a statement (which has now been reduced to the minimum possible based on the citation style by stacking them), and copyediting. For the latter, I can say I've tried my best to clean it up and move the article to more active voice (one of the previous complaints was too much passive voice) and what remains is there for a reason. In the last FAC some editors wanted me to undo changes requested by editors in previous FAcs without a decent reason, so that is the only outstanding as I don't want to continue copyediting in circles.陣内 _Jinnai 21:49, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support - I did a copyedit on this article way back when, and since then, it has only improved further, with others assisting in getting the prose to the "brilliant" standard for FAs. The article improved greatly with each FA, and on this fourth one, it certainly looks ready. I have made a few minor tweaks, and I now believe it meets all of the FA requirements. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 22:41, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - I have an issue with one sentence, however; in particular, it is with the last sentence of the "plot" section's first paragraph: "This inability on the part of the main characters to express their affections provides a comedic theme throughout the series." Can this be cited anywhere? If not, then it goes beyond simple reiteration of the plot and into interpretation and personal preference on what makes the series comedic. If it cannot be cited, then remove it as OR. That being said, since my issue is with one sentence, my support still stands. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 22:41, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - As I can't find a RS supporting it, I removed the statement.陣内_Jinnai 17:12, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - With my concern taken care of, I would simply like to reiterate my support. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 18:19, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support; there isn't much to say. The prose is readable, the sources are legit, and the article as a whole is informative. Perhaps it's not the most important to the VG project but it certainly has come a long way recently and for that I salute you. Tezero (talk) 03:35, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Media Why are flags used rather than country names per MOS:FLAG, at the resolution shown I find it hard to distinguish between Australia and New Zealand Fasach Nua (talk) 09:22, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:MOS-AM. I will also state for myself, who is visually impared, the flags are easier to distinquish sometimes than the small 2-letter abreviations, especially at a quick glance.

In addition, I find nothing in Wikipedia:Manual of Style (icons)#Flags that the usage in the infobox violates. The only thing it might is that it doesn't list the name next to the flag in the first instance. I can add this if requested, however i think this is a strong reason for WP:IAR as for anime and manga articles, since we did a claeanup of the infobox, there are only 6 flags that will be used: Japan, US, Canada, GB, Australia, New Zealand and the US/Canada and Australia/New Zealand will always be used together when they are.陣内 _Jinnai 17:21, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I ended up some time ago adding the names in the fist instance anyway.陣内 _Jinnai 05:04, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment—no dab links, but ~~links to http://www.jonumedia.com/series.asp?idMenu=73&idSeccion=73 doesn't work~~ and link to http://www.funimation.com/schoolrumble/ doesn't go where it needs to go. Ucucha 15:54, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Repaired the broken link while updating some others. The funimation one I'm not sure about because it works fine for me with the current url and doesn't get redirected. Checklist says it redirects to someplace that doesn't have anything to do with the article so I'm not certain what's up with that.陣内_Jinnai 18:21, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - For me, the latter link leads to a page that doesn't mention School Rumble at all. Ucucha 18:36, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - I don't know what to do here because that is the official page for School Rumble and it does work for me. Maybe it is based on your IP?陣内_Jinnai 19:13, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      - I confirmed that the Funimation link works for me as well. G.A.S ^talk 05:18, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        Ip filtering probably only NA ip have access to the website real content. That the same kind of stunt than Crunchyroll. --KrebMarkt 19:45, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        If you mean North America by NA, then I nope (ZA). G.A.S ^talk 05:07, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support - I also believe that the article is now FA material. GamerPro64 (talk) 14:13, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support most of the problems presented in the previous FACs have been fixed, should be good enough to be an FA now. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 11:00, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support. I think this is just about there now, but I'd like to see this sentence fixed though: "The 2nd Semester continued to fluctuate in sales selling well, but overall sales did not chart quite as well as the previous season with most ranking in the 50s to 70s range with all of them ranking only twice." Malleus Fatuorum 19:17, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Tried fixing it by breaking it into 2 sentences.陣内 _Jinnai 19:59, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Is manga and anime plot the same? This is not clear from the article. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 13:23, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes. Per MOS-AM and (which our other FA anime/manga/light novel articles follow) we don't mention the plot of related media if the original is virtually the same. For School Rumble, while there are differences they are more in presentation, such as longer chase scenes. Major plot points are the same.陣内 _Jinnai 17:45, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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