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Fablehaven (novel) has been listed as one of the Language and literature good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: August 16, 2021. (Reviewed version).

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Did you know... that the New York Times bestseller Fablehaven was written by Brandon Mull following the rejection of his first manuscript?

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Plot summary?[edit]

The plot summary is drastically incomplete. It cuts off near the beginning of the story. 76.27.43.136 (talk) 01:04, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Fablehaven (novel)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Whiteguru (talk · contribs) 03:52, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Starts GA Review. The review will follow the same sections of the Article. Thank you --Whiteguru (talk) 03:52, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Instructions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_reassessment

Observations[edit]

   HTML document size: 101 kB
   Prose size (including all HTML code): 16 kB
   References (including all HTML code): 42 kB
   Wiki text: 22 kB
   Prose size (text only): 10237 B (1688 words) "readable prose size"
   References (text only): 4604 B

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

This article is well written and follows MOS

It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):

Of 32 references, 2 go to Youtube. All other references checked; reliable sources proven.

It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):

Article stays on track; lede is strong and well written.

It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:

NPOV is preserved in this article.

It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:

Page created 8 December 2007
Page has 185 edits by 128 editors;
90 day page views = 1,957 giving an average of 22 views per day
ClueBot NG has visited 5 times (reverting vandalism)
Internet Archive Bot has not been on this page since it was created;
Article originally named Fablehaven (book) and moved to Fablehaven (novel)
There are regular instances of vandalism up to end of 2020.
For 2021, the page has been stable. As this is a Youth fantasy novel, it may be that the page will continue to occasionally attract vandalism of the juvenile kind;

It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

File:Fablehaven.jpg = copyright book cover = fair use claimed. Accepted.

Overall:

A well written page about a Young adult/Children's novel, the first by this author. Plot summary is balanced, Backgound, Publication, Reception and Franchise are all well covered.
It may be a proactive move to run the IABot over the page and references.
This page has suffered vandalism of the juvenile kind. The page has fewer than 30 watchers, so management of this particular issue merits attention.
Nonetheless this is a pleasing article, well scribed. --Whiteguru (talk) 11:04, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Passed

Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted without image by Theleekycauldron (talk) 00:38, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Brandon Mull, author of Fablehaven

~~... that fantasy novel Fablehaven has been favorably compared to the popular novel series, Harry Potter?~~ Source: [1]
- ALT1:... that Fablehaven was the first novel written by Brandon Mull (pictured) to be published? Source: [2]
- ALT2:... that Fablehaven was written by Brandon Mull (pictured) following the rejection of his manuscript and intervention by Shadow Mountain Publishing public director Chris Schoebinger. Source: [3]

Reviewed: Fred Marples

Improved to Good Article status by Lazman321 (talk). Self-nominated at 14:49, 19 August 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article is a recent GA, sourced and long enough. No copyvio on Earwig and qpq has been provided. The only problem is that the hooks are a little bland. ALT0 and ALT1 are fairly basic. ALT2 has potential but it would have to be shortened and made a little pithier. Other than that this looks like a great nom! BuySomeApples (talk) 02:09, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ALT3:... that New York Times Bestseller Fablehaven was written by Brandon Mull (pictured) following the rejection of his first manuscript? Source: [4] (archived) Lazman321 (talk) 13:37, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Hi @Lazman321: that hook works! It's a lot more concise, I made a tweak to include the fact that it's a Bestseller since that stood out to me in the source. I also changed the link to an archived version, since the live link gives me a 404. This nom looks good to go now. BuySomeApples (talk) 17:35, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

To T:DYK/P5 without image