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Current requests

MolecularPilot

Hi! I'd love to get into good article reviewing because I just realised how long the backlog is, and I've nominated an article, so I'd love to pay it forward to the good article community.

I think I have a good mastery of the P&Gs, through my work at AfC, AfD and NPP, but I'm always open to learning new things. My interests are in Biology, Chemistry, Psychology and Computer Science, but I'd be happy to review any topics because I'd love to expand my worldview and expertise. I can probably offer more technical analysis in those areas, if it's needed.

I can probably commit a lot of time to GA reviewing in January and am very happy to do a lot, once I get the hang of it.

Thanks for your consideration and time to review this application! :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 04:25, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @MolecularPilot: it's often easiest for us to help when you make a start with a review. Choose something you find interesting and we'll give feedback to improve your reviewing further. Cool you want to help a lot :). —Femke 🐦 (talk) 20:11, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I started reviewing Talk:Enchylium polycarpon/GA3 a few days ago. Thank you for your help! :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 00:57, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks User:MolecularPilot. I've left a comment at the GA review! A difficult one to start reviewing with. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 09:24, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for your detailed feedback! :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 05:58, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Therguy10

I have just wrapped up a GAN for the article Raging Bull (roller coaster). I want to make sure that I did the review correctly and without bias before I pass it. Thank you! Therguy10 (talk) 00:34, 14 January 2025 (UTC) Therguy10 (talk) 00:34, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Therguy10: Congratulations on the review! Great customer service style approach and you really dug into a few issues backed with references (or lack thereof). I can offer some topics I would have explored and you can take it as another perspective/observation.

Train Quote: I'm looking for examples of other pages that use such a stylized opener for a section (blockquote). I feel the quote is more easily understood in context as prose. For instance the first paragraph in the Reception section has done a great job. I see the source for the quote is not available as a url. I would ask if they have a copy of the source and are able to share it. I did find the quote appearing in another one of the references, so I'd ask to have them move the citation over to 2.

Primary Sources: I'd mention WP:PSTS to at least have the discussion. Refs 3, 4, 25, 26 are produced by Six Flags. Worth asking what they get there vs a secondary source which may help in a stronger notability claim on some of these events like Physics Day.

Original Research: Article: Raging Bull features a twister layout inspired by wooden roller coasters such as the Coney Island Cyclone, while still incorporating elements typical of hypercoasters, such as camelback hills designed to provide riders with airtime.[2][4]. I spot checked these sources looking for "such as the Coney Island Cyclone."

[2] [...] coaster to combine "the unparalleled thrill of a steel 'hyper-coaster' with the tight, intense twists and turns common to a wooden 'cyclone-style' roller coaster."

[4] No mention.

I would thank the author for providing the example, but explain how the wiki-linked wooden roller coasters already provides that functionality, with Coney Island Cyclone listed there. Without the change, I'd say it becomes unclear, I bet someone could reasonably understand that Six Flags was inspired by Coney Island Cyclone which we do not have a source for.

Awards Chart: I'd ask the value of the table data for the article. The paragraph that appears above it does an excellent job putting into prose the relevant data in context. Right now the chart feels like a low value list.

You covered all the baselines very well! These are mostly spot-checking discoveries. Matthew Yeager (talk) 01:41, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Matthew Yeager Your feedback is very helpful - it seems citations were a struggle! I'll refer them here to take a look at the suggestions. I will also pass the GA too. Thanks so much! Therguy10 (talk) 15:05, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jonathan Deamer

Hello folks! I'm part way through my first GA review at Talk:Speed Me Up#GA Review. Would welcome any general feedback on what I've done so far, and I have two specific questions:

RE: The line in the article: "The music video for 'Speed Me Up' also reached 33 million views on YouTube as of December 2024.^[1]" I know YouTube is not generally a reliable source. But I haven't been able to find any consensus on whether it can be used as a source for view counts like this. Any ideas, please?
For a creative work like this, do the artists (ie. those in the first sentence of the lead) need to be explicitly inline sourced? Or is it presumed that the work itself is a primary source, and the infobox is sufficient to identify that source?

Thanks for any input!

Jonathan Deamer (talk) 20:26, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Wiz Khalifa (January 23, 2020). Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil Yachty & Sueco the Child - Speed Me Up (Sonic The Hedgehog) [Video]. Retrieved December 22, 2024 – via YouTube.

[1] Wiz Khalifa (January 23, 2020). Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil Yachty & Sueco the Child - Speed Me Up (Sonic The Hedgehog) [Video]. Retrieved December 22, 2024 – via YouTube.

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