Talk:Fight Club (novel)/GA1

Latest comment: 10 years ago by Tezero in topic GA Reassessment

GA Reassessment

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Criteria: 1a. prose ( ) 1b. MoS ( ) 2a. ref layout ( ) 2b. cites WP:RS ( ) 2c. no WP:OR ( ) 2d. no WP:CV ( )
3a. broadness ( ) 3b. focus ( ) 4. neutral ( ) 5. stable ( ) 6a. free or tagged images ( ) 6b. pics relevant ( )
Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked   are unassessed

Because I respect the integrity of the editor(s) who got this promoted years ago, I take no shame in offering the opinion that it no longer fits the GA criteria. I will remove it if no attempts are made anytime soon to fix it. What needs fixing:

  • The intro is incredibly short and doesn't adequately summarize the article.
  • The prose throughout features a number of short paragraphs, most of them without a topic sentence or equivalent.
  • The prose at times is awkward and ambiguous, particularly in History.
  • Plot contains some poor grammar, e.g. "recruiting fight club's members", inconsistent use of tenses.
  • The article is poorly organized; Characters should come before or after Plot, History should be before Awards.
  • There's essentially no Reception. Find more, split it—along with the sales stuff—into a new section, and merge Awards into it.
  • Motifs and Themes contain a huge amount of original research and weasel-wording that compromises the article's neutral point of view. They look like something that would earn a 3 on the English Literature AP test.
  • Some of the refs are formatted incorrectly or missing information.

It's urgent that you fix this if you want it to remain a GA; this article looks C-class to me and it's a disservice to keep it on the WP:GA list and thereby give readers the pretense that they'll be poring over something of contemporary quality. Please fix this. Tezero (talk) 05:55, 17 February 2014 (UTC)Reply