Talk:Crossroads to Crime/GA1

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Bob talk 21:56, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
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):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

Another nice Gerry Anderson article from SuperMarioMan, and in some ways the most challenging. So, although it's fairly short, seeing as the film itself is incredibly obscure (and unavailable on any home entertainment format), I therefore can't really find any parts that are lacking here. I ran it through the automated peer review machine, and it didn't really have any suggestions. I would perhaps recommend adding a reference for the plot section, though - I'm assuming that the plot of the film is described in one of the books or the Fanderson website. While a poster from the film would be good, given that it was a B feature, I wonder whether one was ever created. Did Anthony Oliver ever appear in anything else (and would he deserve a short article of his own)?Also, reference 12 (the Gerry Anderson biography) needs a page number adding.

However, I'm happy that it meets the GA criteria sufficiently, and am happy to pass it. Well done. Bob talk 22:24, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The plot section is now referenced and page numbers added where needed — fortunately the Anderson biography offers a synopsis of the action to at least partly compensate the lack of a commercial release (and the plot does seem a bit "wafer thin" as one of the sources suggests ...). Oliver stopped acting in 1972 if his IMDb profile is anything to go by, and I think that one book states that he turned his attention to novel-writing prior to his death in 1995 (it's mentioned somewhere, but I'll have to find where). If a film poster ever existed, it is absent from the internet. Google images offers just two pictures directly related to the film — namely, the infobox image on the current page and the corresponding title shot on the Fanderson website — while the book sources contain only a couple of cast photos. So, not exactly a lost film, but it definitely comes close to that label. A product of its time. Super Mario Man 04:32, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]