Talk:Samuel L. Jackson/GA1

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GA Reassessment

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As part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles' Project quality task force ("GA Sweeps"), all old good articles are being re-reviewed to ensure that they meet current good article criteria (as detailed at WP:WIAGA.) I have determined that this article needs some work to meet current criteria, outlined below:

• There are several areas with unsourced statements, mostly appearances and such. While some might consider "X played Y" to be basic enough to not need a cite, A) this is a BLP, so it's better to be safe, and B) many of these statements have possible NPOV or OR assertions with them. Segments include:
  • " In 1998, he worked with other established actors such as Sharon Stone and Dustin Hoffman in Sphere and Kevin Spacey in The Negotiator, playing a hostage negotiator who resorts to taking hostages himself when he is falsely accused of murder and embezzlement."

    Sourced. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 04:31, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

  • "Jackson then acted as a NSA agent alongside Vin Diesel in xXx and a kilt-wearing drug dealer in Formula 51. In 2003, Jackson again worked with John Travolta in Basic and then as a police sergeant alongside Colin Farrell in the television show remake S.W.A.T. In 2004, Jackson played a mentor to Ashley Judd in the thriller Twisted, and lent his voice to the computer-animated film The Incredibles as the superhero Frozone. Jackson once again appeared in a Tarantino film, by cameoing in Kill Bill, Vol. 2."

    Sourced. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 04:31, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

  • "On December 15, 2006, Jackson starred in Home of the Brave, as a doctor returning home from the Iraq War."

    Sourced. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 04:31, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

  • "On January 30, 2007, Jackson was featured as narrator in Bob Saget's direct-to-DVD Farce of the Penguins. The film was a spoof of the box office success March of the Penguins (which was narrated by Morgan Freeman). Also in 2007, he portrayed a blues player who imprisons a young woman (Christina Ricci) addicted to sex in Black Snake Moan, and the horror film 1408, an adaptation of the Stephen King short story. In 2008, Jackson reprised his role of Mace Windu in the CGI film, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, followed by Lakeview Terrace where he played a racist cop who terrorizes an interracial couple. In November of the same year, he starred along with Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes (who both died prior to the film's release) in Soul Men. In 2008, he portrayed the villain, The Octopus, in the film The Spirit, and in 2009 he narrated several scenes in Inglourious Basterds."

    Sourced. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 04:31, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

  • That's but a small sample of the obvious unsourced material.
• The information about Jackson's visage being used for Ultimate Fury is repeated twice; does the Nick Fury information need its own subsection; likewise, do we need a pop culture section? (I would imagine it should have better sources for this info.)

  I combined both of the mentions into one small section now included within the upcoming films section. I removed the subsection for now, but it may be added down the line once he has actually starred in the nine films (if it happens). It would comprise less than ten percent of his career, but seems comparable to listing James Bond for Sean Connery's article. I removed the pop culture section, deleting some content, and merging some statements elsewhere. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 04:31, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

• There are quite a few run-on sentences and quasi-paragraphs that aren't true ones (they need at least three sentences to be a standalone paragraph.)

  I've fleshed out a few of the paragraphs and merged others. Some have also been rearranged to improve flow. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 04:31, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm putting the article on hold for seven days pending improvement of the above. Please keep me posted on progress here. Thanks, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 20:19, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks again for reviewing another one of my GAs, I appreciate it. These comments are helpful, and the deadline is a great way to push me to clean up this article (I always put it off due to getting sidetracked by too many things here). --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 04:31, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Ok, it looks better now. Thanks for the quick turnaround. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 22:31, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

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