Talk:The Lightning Thief/GA2

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GA Review[edit]

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GA review (see here for criteria)
  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (MoS):
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects): b (focused):
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. It is stable.
    No edit wars, etc.:
  6. 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):
  7. Overall:
    Pass/Fail:

In depth review[edit]

When an item has been adressed, I will check mark the item.

I added {{fixed}} as it will make it easier for me to fix them. You can possibly add {{done}}. ;) Pmlineditor  Talk 08:58, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Talk about the next book in the article.
     Fixed Pmlineditor  Talk 11:03, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Prose[edit]

  • It is the first book in the Percy Jackson & The Olympians series, and chronicles the adventures of twelve year old Percy Jackson, who discovers he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and the Greek god Poseidon.
Wouldn't it better to say : It is the first book in the Percy Jackson & The Olympians series, which are chronicles of the adventures of twelve year old Percy Jackson, who discovers he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and the Greek god Poseidon.
 Fixed
  • The book is commonly classified as young-adult fiction,
By whom?
 Fixed
  • The book is often praised for its feel of realism and for how believable each character is.
By whom?
 Fixed
  • However, at the end of the book, he betrays Percy and leaves him half dead; revealing that he works for the Titan Kronos.
Rather than giving the position of the book away, why not say :However, he later betrays Percy [...] for the Titan Kronos.
 Fixed

MOS[edit]

  • The article needs more Wikilinks (such as realism, poseidon)
     Fixed Pmlineditor  Talk 07:49, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • New information that is presented in infobox or lead must be sourced.
     Fixed
  • Avoid weasel words
     Fixed (the sentence about the audiobook you mentioned in IRC) Pmlineditor  Talk 07:49, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is a section with only three sentences.
     Doing... Expanded a bit. Pmlineditor  Talk 10:21, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
     Fixed Expanded to double the size. Really, not much info about it. Pmlineditor  Talk 11:45, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Images[edit]

  • Add movie logo image
     Fixed Pmlineditor  Talk 07:51, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Perhaps change the caption for the image of author to something other than quote?
     Fixed Pmlineditor  Talk 08:14, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Links[edit]

  • These articles are disambiguation pages:
    • Artemis Fowl
       Fixed
    • Empire State
       Fixed
    • Kronos
       Fixed
    • Percy Jackson
       Fixed
    • Realism
       Fixed
  • Reference 19 is dead.
     Fixed Used cached version from Google. Pmlineditor  Talk 08:15, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article has a few problems. I am keeping it on hold for seven days, so that the problems can be fixed. Warrior4321 19:13, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

After all the fixes completed here, and fixes which were asked on IRC, this article is ready for promotion! Warrior4321 16:46, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to you and Shimgray for the reviews and the help. Pmlineditor  Talk 17:41, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]