Talk:Skull Bearers (Shannara)/GA1

GA Review

Notability

Unfortunately, the article does not establish the real-world notability of these characters. That's not so much a problem with the way the article is written, as that it's just a subject that I don't think will ever be super-notable...the Shannara series itself is quite notable (heck, I loved those books), but an article about one element in them—especially when that element, as far as I can remember, only appeared in the first two books—is going to have a hard time establishing notability. To be honest, I'm sort of straddling a line right now trying to decide if this topic should have its own article at all, or be incorporated into one of the other Shannara articles...as things are right now, the First King of Shannara article doesn't seem like it has a good spot for this stuff (although you might be able to make an argument for listing it under Characters), which is why I don't have a major problem with this being in its own article.

Sources

There are few sources, and a large proportion of them are either primary sources directly from one of the books, or from the Minnie Gong site (which appears to be a fan website). The only two real third-party sources are the last two (the Herbert review and the other one), which are only cited one time each.

Writing style

Overall, the writing is decent, without glaring errors. The Role in the series section, however, is concerning in that it is written pretty much from an in-universe perspective, which needs to be edited out.

Other criteria

All the other good article criteria are pretty much met, and I won't take the time to go through each one here in detail.

Decision

Unfortunately, due to the notability concerns with this article, I cannot pass it to Good Article status. The problems with sources and writing style, which I outlined above, are less serious and could probably be repaired with a few hours or work, but I believe the notability problem is much more serious and difficult to get around. Feel free to leave a message at my talk page if you would like to discuss this decision, to nominate your article again after you feel you have corrected some of the problems, or to request a second opinion. Thank you. —Politizer^{( talk • contribs )} 15:48, 28 September 2008 (UTC)