Talk:The Winter's Tale (1910 film)

GA Review

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Reviewer: Jaguar (talk · contribs) 20:42, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Should complete this within a day or two! ☯ Jaguar ☯ 20:42, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Initial comments

• The lead is slightly too short of that to become GA quality. I would recommend expanding it to fully summairze the article. Ideally the plot and reception could make up at least a small paragraph in the lead

Expanded. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 18:53, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

• All instances of "King" and "Queen" need to be capitalized in the plot section

No, it does not, but I rewrote the whole thing. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 18:53, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

• "The film opens with the meeting of the kings of Bohemia and Sicilia" - can Bohemia and Sicilia be linked? There is only one link in the plot section! WP:UNDERLINK

Done. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 18:53, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

• "While the director of the film is not known, two Thanhouser directors are possible" - would recommend linking this as it confused me upon reading it the first time

This is the name of the company... I removed it as redundant. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 18:53, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

• "The Moving Picture News stated that this was the first Shakespeare adaptation by an Independent producer" - why is independent capitalised?

Because that was the way to refer to all members outside of the Licensed companies. Licensed here refers to those part of the Edison Trust - but that article is lacking and there is none for the Independents. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 18:53, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

• ""[w]e were asked to inspect and criticize this film" - why is '[w]e' there? Just curious, I've never seen anything like that

Fixed. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 18:53, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

• "This fool serves as an exaggerated proxy" - Fool should be capitalised like before if it is referring to a person!

Not a character name - so the first instance Shakespearean fool also needed to be lower case. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 18:53, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

References

• No dead links, so this passes the GA criteria

On hold

That's all I could find with this one, but other than the capitalisation issues this is a very nice little article. It's a shame it's not on YouTube or something. Anyway, I'll leave this on hold for the standard seven days. Thanks ☯ Jaguar ☯ 18:12, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

@Jaguar: It is on Veoh. Ned Thanhouser also has it linked on the page for Bowers encyclopedia. Another version with commentary by Judith Buchanan is here. These are official links, but I have not added them to the website because of several points. First, the music is by Raymond A. Brubacher and is likely copyrighted. If you want to appreciate the film and spend 10 minutes watching it - I'd watch the commentary version by Buchanan. The film takes some liberties with the plot and you need to be familiar with the original Shakespeare production to follow otherwise understand the action. It is a rare survivor from a key period of time, but as mentioned - this incomplete - because it is missing its final scene. Also, all fixes are done. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 19:02, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Close - promoted

Thanks for that. I'll have a look at this film as anything related to the very early 20th century is my favourite period in history. I'm familiar with some Shakespeare but I don't know about this one. Shame about the final scene too. Anyway promoted ☯ Jaguar ☯ 22:45, 5 March 2015 (UTC)