Talk:The Blip/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 05:08, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): It is factually accurate and verifiable. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): It is broad in its coverage. a (major aspects): b (focused): It follows the neutral point of view policy. Fair representation without bias: It is stable. No edit wars, etc.: It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate. a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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Courtesy ping to co-nominator BD2412 to notify of the start of this review. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 05:08, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

There are a number of copy changes throughout. I am concerned about two spot checks, one that partially failed and one that failed fully (info on Secret Invasion). Otherwise we're pretty close. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 05:28, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

@Sammi Brie Thanks for doing this review! I think I've addressed everything that I could. The only thing I was confused about was dashing the appositve so I may have done it wrong. I've dealt with the two spot check issues. For the Secret Invasion one I just removed the bit at the end of the sentence since it isn't important to the article anyway. As for more real life refs for reception, I've tried finding more in the past, but even searching places like Google scholar, I'm not finding anything new still. -- ZooBlazer^talk 06:37, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

I also didn't see the "crisis of faith" line in the source for [71]. Can you please go through all the claims in that sentence, @ZooBlazer, and make sure the sources there cover them? Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:51, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

@Sammi Brie I changed the wording and added an additional ref to support it. -- ZooBlazer^talk 07:13, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Copy changes

Lead

• Some were portrayed for comic effects, such as "blipped" school band members reappearing in the middle of a basketball game, and "blipped" characters now being years younger than their own "unblipped" previously younger siblings. Remove the second comma
• The Blip, as an event within the MCU, has been compared to the COVID-19 pandemic in the real world, as something that has a sustained effect on people all over the world. Since the Blip in Infinity War, many scientific articles have been published, analyzing various aspects of the event, including whether it would even be possible for Thanos to snap his fingers while wearing the Infinity Gauntlet. Reword sentence 1 to not have "world" twice within it. Remove the comma after "published" in sentence 2.

Depictions

• one year time jump Hyphenate one-year
• MOS:'S: series's, not series'. This recurs in a few guises throughout the article.
• After Endgame was released in April, the showrunners and Loeb revealed that the series would not directly depict or reference the Blip for several reasons: they consider splitting the sentence at the colon because the sentence is not a list of all of the reasons.
• Don't hyphenate "lined up"
• A line referencing the Blip and how the Quantum Realm could be used to avoid it was filmed for the series finale, but was ultimately cut from the aired episode. Remove the comma. User:Sammi Brie/Commas in sentences (CinS)
• where Thanos has gone to Redundant to, especially because "...to, to" looks awkward.
• his work cannot maybe "could not"
• For example, Barton is distraught at the loss of his family, and becomes a rogue warrior Remove the comma after "Family" (CinS)
• Banner volunteers to wear the Gauntlet, and successfully restores the blipped victims in the condition they had vanished. Remove the comma (CinS)
• restored, including Peter's aunt May Parker, and his classmates Ned Leeds, MJ, Betty Brant, and Flash Thompson Remove the comma after Parker
• discovering chaos outside as other people are un-blipped in many places, and learning that her mother Another CinS comma removal
• In the eighth episode, Thanos arrives on Earth to retrieve the Mind Stone after collecting the other Infinity Stones, but is swiftly killed by Ultron Remove the comma after Stones (CinS)
• ... the Blip is discussed and fliers can be seen This needs a comma (separate subjects: the Blip, fliers) (CinS)
• Dr. Christine Palmer survived the Blip and found love with another man during that time, whom she marries Misplaced appositive. Fix this by changing to Dr. Christine Palmer survived the Blip and, during that time, found love with another man, whom she marries
• built by Banner and Stark, and explains to Walters Remove comma (CinS)
• Queen in Queen regnant does not need to be capitalized
• Link Skrull

Differences from the comics

• 1991 The Infinity Gauntlet series, and came to be called the Snap. Remove comma (CinS)
• which he uses to create the Infinity Gauntlet, making himself omnipotent Set this appositive off in dashes as there's already a comma in the appositive.
• from Thanos immediately, and are never destroyed Remove comma (CinS)

Design

• The team chose to use Drax as the test character due to his lack of hair because they wanted to get the effect design further along before dealing with hair. Reword this sentence so it has a little bit of punctuation.
• They appreciated the idea but didn't ultimately go for it". This is a full-sentence quote, so period inside quotes: MOS:LOGICAL

Reception

General: Is there anything further that can be added? I'd like this to have a little more RL material. While the number of referencing works makes a large in-universe section a reality, I'd like to see the balance a little more even.

• the Reddit subreddit, r/thanosdidnothingwrong. and in the new subreddit, /r/inthesoulstone. This is not an appositive because it cannot be removed seamlessly without making me ask "which subreddit?". So remove the comma.
• the Russo brothers used an image This image was not made by them; perhaps "shared"?

Spot checks

• 4: Fandango article, quote from Feige: We've narrowed it down to, the Snap is when everybody disappeared at the end of Infinity War. The Blip is when everybody returned at the end of Endgame… Y
• 6: The included quote "during the Blip" indicates the Blip as a period of time, not a point event in that case. Y
• 25: One particular element that was never truly revealed was whether or not her mother or stepfather survived Thanos' snap. If they weren't so lucky, it would beg the question of how Cassie took care of herself and was able to hold onto her house. Y
• 43: Since the Infinity Stones have supposedly left served their purpose, Thanos opted to fully destroy them so that the Decimation could not be undone. Y
• 47: Streets are empty, buildings are unmaintained, Citi Field has practically crumbled into ruins. A child rides a bike down a suburban street, but not without glaring suspiciously at a stranger. ... This article does not mention San Francisco. Can you find another source to add here?
• 54: We, and Marvel, wanted there to be a cohesiveness to the visuals and to the phenomena. But also, this is its own show and the tone of our sequence is obviously very different, and the location is very different. So it was an opportunity in small ways to be separate. Y
• 71: I'm having trouble sourcing some of the Secret Invasion details. The linked article mentions no crisis of faith, million refugees, or assimilation into society. Can you help me here?
• 84: Review in The Hollywood Reporter of Infinity War: Without giving anything away, the climax is startling in its gravity, and no Marvel fan will leave before the long final credits scroll gives way to the traditional kicker tease at the very end, which amplifies the ending by serving up even more questions, not answers. This will achieve the desired result of making millions of fans debate what it all means until the next installment. All we know for sure is that just one identified character will return. Y
• 86: Interview in Variety: I was wary of it becoming like the Battle of New York, which was the third act of “Avengers,” which ended up being referenced as an event kind of constantly, and some times better than others. I was wary of that. As we started getting into a global pandemic last March and April and May, we started to go, holy mackerel, the Blip, this universal experience — exactly as you described it — this experience that affected every human on Earth, now has a direct parallel between what people who live in the MCU had encountered, and what all of us in the real world have encountered. Y
• 99: Mashable comparison — the whole article does it. Y

Earwig catches one mirror, a number of work titles and "in the Marvel Cinematic Universe", and attributed quotes. Nothing of concern.

Media

There are three non-free images. I might have done without the Doctor Strange one, but they are all appropriately NFUR'd.

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