Talk:Akira Kurosawa/GA2

GA Review

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Reviewer: Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contribs) 14:12, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Will be doing this. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 14:12, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

I have to admit that, at least on Wikipedia, my subject of expertise is more on anime and manga in general rather than live-action Japanese films, so doing this review was somewhat more challenging than the one I did for Hayao Miyazaki's article. I have to say that, so far, the article looks pretty good and is well-written; in fact, the level of detail is close to that of an FA instead of just a GA. Checking the external links, some of them are dead or have moved, but this is an easily resolvable issue. Earwigs detects some "issues", but these issues appear to be websites that copied from Wikipedia than the other way around. As the article is not a BLP, not every contentious statement needs sourcing; nevertheless, almost all paragraphs have at least one citation, and the phrases that don't are generally transitional phrases for the next paragraph.

Just a few minor issues though: the first is that the article's lede says "Akira Kurosawa (黒沢 明) (March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998)" when this could instead be written as "Akira Kurosawa (黒沢 明, March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998)". Related to this, the first paragraph of the "Childhood and youth" repeats his full name at the first sentence when perhaps simply "Kurosawa" is sufficient. In the "Director in training (1935–41)" section, the second time Kajirō Yamamoto is mentioned, his name lacks a macron (in addition, it's possible that his full name is unnecessary in this part as it's already clear which Yamamoto is being referred to). Finally, the "Documentaries" section is completely unsourced and the movie titles are not italicized. Otherwise, this should be good to go. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 05:45, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

That is pretty comprehensive on your part for the details given above. Your version of the lead sentence and dates is better than the one in the article, and yours is now placed there. For the "Childhood" section, his last name is sufficient as you state above, and I have left the footnote there for those interested in the details. For the "Director " section, your comment on Yamamoto is accurate and only the first instance of his name includes his first name with link to his article which gives the Nihongo straight away. For the "Documentaries" section, the titles are all now italic, with links to websites for readers and editors who need more details. It's really good of you to have taken on this semi-long article with such detailed remarks and comments. Let me know if more needs attention. JohnWickTwo (talk) 04:15, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

@JohnWickTwo: Almost all the issues I have raised above have been addressed. Once the problematic links have been resolved I will pass this. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 05:58, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: Earlier this morning I was able to format the rest of the references in the documentaries section. If I've missed anything in the cites then let me know. They should all be formatted and linked there now. 15:15, 24 June 2017 (UTC)JohnWickTwo (talk)

I should have made this clearer: the problem is not the formatting, it's that two of the article's links are dead. If possible, please provide an archive link for each dead link. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 00:37, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

After some looking, I think I found those two old 2009 dead archive cites, which I have now reformatted to active urls with updated access dates for June 2017. Some of those very old archive urls from before my time with this article have long been dead links and I changed them to the new active links. They should have been removed earlier since there is no back-up now. The new urls link fine now to the updated links. Both of the ones you pointed out were in the legacy section which you helped me locate and correct. I think that may be the last of them. JohnWickTwo (talk) 03:29, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

There are no more problems with the article so I'm happy to say that I am now passing this GAN. With a little more work, this should easily go up to FA too. There's a dead link to the Kurosawa studio website and an issue with the Oscars page, but these are minor and resolvable issues that do not really detract from the article as a whole. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 03:55, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: My appreciation for your doing that. If there are any other refs to look at then just leave me with the ref # either here or on my talk page. Is there anything that can be done to get the announcement of your assessment on Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Assessment and to get the GA logo on the top of the article page at this time. JohnWickTwo (talk) 12:50, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

The dead links can be seen at [1]. Actually any user (including you) can add the icon to the article as long as the article passes its GAN. As for news, you can add it yourself. Finally, you may be interested in nominating the article for WP:DYK as it's a newly-promoted GA; more information can be read at that page. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 14:09, 25 June 2017 (UTC)