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Now You Know (Desperate Housewives)

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I've listed this article for peer review because I would like to get it to GA status, but I believe it needs significant improvement. Also, I am having trouble finding additional sources, particularly for the production and critical reception sections. I can't believe they don't exist, so help in that area would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Akcvtt (talk) 07:17, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Ruhrfisch comments: Having reviewed another Desperate Housewives article recently, I see some of the same issues here. Please see Wikipedia:Peer review/Secrets That I Never Want to Know/archive1 and I will make more comments here. Thanks again for your work on an interesting article; here are some suggestions for improvement.

• See the other PR for the model article suggestion. This article has no dead links and no dab links - good work!
• I would include the Filipino controversey in the lead since it has its own section in the article.
• Be consistent on little things - it is "least watched" in the lead, but "least-watched" in the Viewership and ratings section - does it have a hyphen or not?
• "Twelve years of absence" sounds odd to my ear - I can see "an absence of twelve years" or "after being absent for twelve years" or "after being away for 12 years" - see The episode also introduces Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany), Susan's old friend who returns to the neighborhood after twelve years of absence.
• Also the MOS says to spell out numbers if they are 10 or less, so I think it should be 12 years above
• I nthe Background section I would refer to the third season (and not "In recent episodes") in In recent episodes, Bree Hodge (Marcia Cross) sends her pregnant teenage daughter...
• Presumably some of the events also took place in the season 3 finale, if so I would link that.
• Separating Edie's break up and suicide attempt seemed confusing to me. I realize there is also the whole breaking up with Carlos and Carlos with his ex-wife thing. Perhaps just ending the section with something like "The third season finale ended with Edie hanging herself in a suicide attempt." might help (Elsewhere is not clear)
• Could use a light copyedit. Two examples - she seeks comfort in [with] Carlos, her ex-husband or "in time" seems as if it would be better in when Carlos does not show up on time to rescue her, she almost dies
• Please make sure that the existing text includes no copyright violations, plagiarism, or close paraphrasing. For more information on this please see Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches. (This is a general warning given in all peer reviews, in view of previous problems that have risen over copyvios.)

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch peer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 01:00, 8 November 2011 (UTC)