Talk:Underground (Murakami book)

Rewrite

• I rewrote many sections of this, including the lead and the common themes, both of which were identified as problem areas in the 2009 GA Assessment. I also added the History section and updated the references. Any feedback would be appreciated! --Revolutionetc (talk) 09:08, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
• I rewrote this fairly extensively, adding references and sections, fixing grammar and spelling as far as I could plus adding an infobox. Any feedback on this would be very useful. --Phl3djo 11:19, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Your input has been just great, thank you very much for taking your time. Could you also see the Aum Shinrikyo article? It expanded over time following arguments and debates and currently there are repetitions and somewhat clumsy parts that would benefit from evaluation. ExitControl

Great work

I passed the article for GA status. Great work here, not at all diminished by the article's size. --Dark Kubrick 19:22, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:11, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

GA Reassessment

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Underground (stories)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

I am reassessing this article as part of the GA Sweeps process. Jezhotwells (talk) 13:25, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Checking against GA criteria

In order to uphold the quality of Wikipedia:Good articles, all articles listed as Good articles are being reviewed against the GA criteria as part of the GA project quality task force. While all the hard work that has gone into this article is appreciated, unfortunately, as of July 5, 2009, this article fails to satisfy the criteria, as detailed below. For that reason, the article has been delisted from WP:GA. However, if improvements are made bringing the article up to standards, the article may be nominated at WP:GAN. If you feel this decision has been made in error, you may seek remediation at WP:GAR.

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose):

   b (MoS):

   • Common themes: This is a list, needs to be re-written in prose.
   • Title: This is consistently listed by publishers as Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. Have you considered changing it?
   • Lead: This should be a summary of the article, but it reads more as the first section. It contains information that is not in the article and it does not cover information that is in the article. Needs major re-write.

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references):

   • ref #5 : Kavitha, Rao; Murakami, Mutsuko (3 October 1997). "The Human Cost". Asiaweek. {http://www.pathfinder.com/asiaweek/97/1003/feat5.html} is dead. Other references look good as far as can be verified.

   b (citations to reliable sources):

   • All sources appear reliable.

   c (OR):

   • No evidence of OR

3. It is broad in its scope.

   a (major aspects):

   • Broad ...

   b (focused):

   • ... and focussed.

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

   • OK

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars etc.:

   • OK

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales):

   • OK

   b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

   • OK

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

   • On hold for seven days for above concerns to be addressed. Jezhotwells (talk) 13:36, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

   • OK I have notified previous editors and projects about this and no changes have been made, so delisting. Jezhotwells (talk) 18:33, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Translation

There should really be a section discussing the English translation in more detail, since it appears the book has been abridged quite a lot from the original. Jmj713 (talk) 18:22, 14 July 2012 (UTC)