Talk:The Racketeer (novel)

The Racketeer (novel) was nominated as a Language and literature good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (March 23, 2024, reviewed version). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

A fact from The Racketeer (novel) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 April 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that, on the encouragement of fans, John Grisham wrote The Racketeer with an African-American protagonist and hopes Denzel Washington will play the role in the movie adaptation?

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GA Review[edit]

Unsuccessful. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 01:23, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Nominator: TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs)

Reviewer: Generalissima (talk · contribs) 01:10, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article is a long way from meeting breadth, prose, and sourcing criteria.

The lede is two sentences and does not give any information about the plot whatsoever, only that it was a best-selling book.
The sourcing is frankly a bit of a mess. Why do we need 15+ cites for how long it was on the bestsellers list? We don't need to know what exact days the book was on the bestseller's list or where it was on any given day.
Why do you cite a book review about a completely separate book, Salvation of a Saint?
The background section does not actually give us any background about the author or what books he has previously written beyond the fact they evidently don't have Black characters. Does Grisham generally write legal thrillers? I don't know, because this is two sentences and a quote about the book's themes.
The cancelled film adaptation is interesting. Has there been any investigation about this in the twelve years since?

Please don't keep nominating articles in this state to GAN. The only reason I am doing this is so other reviewers don't have to go through the effort of quick-failing all of these. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 01:22, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.