Talk:Scott & Bailey/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Matthew RD 13:21, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Hello, I shall be the reviewer. I'll start the process hopefully by the end of today. -- Matthew RD 13:21, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Okay, I nominated the page so I'll be listening to any ammendments you need me to complete etc. if the article is substandard -- Patyo1994 (talk) 00:00, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your patience. I will now commence the review. Here's how the article compares against the GA criteria;

• Well written: ✗ Fail. See notes below
• Factually accurate: ✗ Fail. See notes below
• Broadness in coverage: ✓ Pass
• Neutral: ✓ Pass
• Stability: No edit wars over the last couple of weeks. ✓ Pass
• Images: Two non-free images, both with a non-free rationale. ✓ Pass

Notes for improvement

• All but one of ther sources check out, but the Internet Movie Database is considered an unreliable source.
• "The show revolves around the personal and professional lives of the DC Bailey and DC Scott." Please add the main characters' full names.
• Link Greater Manchester Police
• "Principal photography for the series took place in a twelve-week window from November onwards, it was reported by Female First." Is that November 2010?
• The episodes sections need some major restructuring, particularly by adding writing and directing credits, per several other episode lists (List of Luther episodes for example). Also, there needs to be some more detail on the summaries, particularly how the case evolvs throughout the episodes and how they conclude, also is there an overall arc in the series? Be sure to make sure they are under 200 words, per WP:TVPLOT.
• "The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) later released consolidated information stating that the first episode had received 8.31 million viewers on ITV1, with a further 801,000 tuning in on ITV1 HD and 310,000 on ITV1+1, totalling the viewing figures to 9.42 for the first episode." I think that needs the [nb 1] citation again.
• Any information regarding a DVD and Blu-ray Disc release?

Overall nice job so far. The article will be placed on hold for seven days until the issues have been addressed. Good luck. -- Matthew RD 17:00, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing the article, I have ammended all the points made except for the second; the characters full names were already introduced in the prior sentence and I was just querying whether it's necessary to write it again, as the text would read (bar the italics and boldening, of course):

"The programme's main characters are DC Rachel Bailey (Suranne Jones) and DC Janet Scott (Lesley Sharp), both of whom are members of the Major Incident Team of the fictional Manchester Metropolitan Police, headed by DCI Gill Murray (Amelia Bullmore). The show revolves around the personal and professional lives of the DC Rachel Bailey and DC Janet Scott."

Hope you can help me clarify the problem -- Patyo1994 (talk) 21:21, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Oops, sorry I must have missed that. With the problem out of the way, I will now pass the article. Thanks for addressing the comments so quickly. Good job! -- Matthew RD 22:04, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Matthew - the word evolvs in your points above, is actually spelt evolves mate! If you're going to come on here lecturing people on how fantastically wonderful you are at editing Wikipedia articles, do you think you could at least learn to bloody spell properly?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.224.159.85 (talk) 21:42, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Whoa; spoilers alert?! Eel Notluad (talk) 02:27, 13 October 2013 (UTC)