Talk:Marching Men/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Maclean25 (talk · contribs) 05:51, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Good article review (see Wikipedia:What is a good article? for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. 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):

   Two images used (both hosted on the Commons): File:Marching Men Cover.jpg tagged as cc-by-sa and File:Marching Men Advertisement.jpg tagged as public domain.

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Comments/Questions

• In the lead, can "Today, Marching Men is largely forgotten..." be re-phrased. It seems to be close to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch#Relative time references. The lead should only be summarizing what is already in the article, is this sentence a summary of something more thoroughly covered in the article?

Agreed, the "Today" was not good form. See what you think of the adjustment I made. I believe that the sentence refers to the latter part of the "Literary significance and criticism" section. --Olegkagan (talk) 01:57, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

• Perhaps Great Man theory would be a good wikilink for "Emersonian Great Man"

Done.--Olegkagan (talk) 22:02, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

• Can you add a quote from the novel? Nothing quite communicates the novel's style like a quote directly from the text.

There is a quote under Themes: Order versus disorder section. I can certainly pull another quote from the book, but where do you think in the article it could go?--Olegkagan (talk) 22:02, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

I thought that was a quote from Anderson talking about the novel. I didn't realize that was a quote from the novel. maclean (talk) 15:41, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

• Is the novel written in first-person or third-person? maclean (talk) 15:41, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

It's in third-person. --Olegkagan (talk) 19:04, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

• This article covers all the major aspects and is competently written. Perhaps the fact that it is written in the third-person should be included into the article as it describes part of the writing style. Otherwise, it meets the GA criteria and I am comfortable with passing it. maclean (talk) 00:33, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to read and review the article! I'll see about sticking more about the writing style into the article in the future.--Olegkagan (talk) 01:58, 25 May 2012 (UTC)