Talk:The One Where the Monkey Gets Away

notice of episode article review

The individual episode articles for Friends (season one) are now being reviewed according to episode notability guidelines. Please contribute to the discussion on Talk:List of Friends episodes#Episode article review (Season 1). Eusebeus 11:10, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Notability

At present, there's no indication that this episode is independently notable. It doesn't at the moment have a single high-quality source that asserts notability, so it doesn't yet pass the general notability guideline. --Slashme (talk) 13:11, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Agreed. @The Optimistic One: What are your thoughts, about this and the other ones you have recently created articles for? —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 14:48, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

It needs improvement, most of the other episodes i created articles for are fine. The Optimistic One (talk) 14:54, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

@The Optimistic One: The issue I have isn't the quality of the article; it's the notability of the topic. Of the four refs you have at the moment, the only one with any editorial oversight is the AV Club article. That's an article in a specialist publication, which would generally be expected to give higher weight to media topics, and it's to a large extent a debate about whether it's even notable as a Friends episode, with one of the commentators calling it "lackluster", "totally forgettable", "minimally important", and "filler". You need to find a reliable independent source that indicates that the episode itself is notable beyond the context of the series, and explain in the introduction of the article why it's notable. --Slashme (talk) 06:03, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Relevant policy: WP:NOTCATALOG, WP:PAGEDECIDE; relevant essay: WP:ROTM. --Slashme (talk) 06:14, 6 April 2018 (UTC)