Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Only Fools and Horses

Only Fools and Horses[edit]

Came across this as a GA. Have made a few changes to try and get it to FA standard.Buc 22:40, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support This article has been dramatically improved since it became a good article, as have the articles in it's category. I feel it fits the FA criterea.Caissa's DeathAngel 19:03, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment News sources aren't correctly referenced - they should include author name and publication date when available. Using cite news instead of cite web for news sources will allow for input of the necessary parameters. Please reference the article correctly, and I'll have another look. Sandy (Talk) 01:38, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Added dates and changed news sources to cite news as well as adding author names where I could find them.Buc 11:55, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed the remainder for you - pls check. I found one with an uncertain date - you will need to verify vs. other sources whether 05-03 meant March 5 or May 3 - see note in diff. I ran out of time. Sandy (Talk) 14:21, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Date fixed. The Telegraph uses the British date format of day first. See here, here and here, for instance SteveO 15:27, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like refs are in order now - I'll read later as I have time. Sandy (Talk) 19:58, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Object - Too much uncited text (I flagged a small part of it only), and copyedit needs (Del Boy came 4th in a Channel 4 list of Britain's best-loved television characters[29] and 1st in another survey by Open...[30]) Sandy (Talk) 02:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nice job on the referencing - striking my object. I'll try to read the article through when I have a large block of free time. Sandy (Talk) 19:38, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Support with a few minor qualms:

One reference in the lead -- this should be moved to the body.
Italicization of titles isn't consistent -- the ones that currently aren't (eg. "The Green Green Grass" in the lead) should be fixed.
"...but the show came to develop a story arc and a "soap opera" dimension. -- this doesn't flow smoothly in its sentence or paragraph, and the portion I've italicized is probably the worst bit.
A couple of unnecessary words like "often" scattered throughout. Also a couple of archaicisms like "whilst."
Quite a few parentheticals; perhaps some of these could be eliminated.
"The show was aired in seven series'" -- extraneous apostrophe
"Several non-regular one-off specials" -- redundant
The paragraph about the directors and producers isn't grammatically correct. Punctuation's a bit off. Splitting the first long sentence into two shorter ones would help. Shimeru 04:03, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Addition... it's overlinked. No reason to wikilink "September 8," for instance, or "lisp." Or a couple of others. Shimeru 05:14, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Correction - WP:DATE says "If a date includes both a month and a day, then the date should almost always be linked to allow readers’ date preferences to work, displaying the reader’s chosen format." Sandy (Talk) 10:21, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I stand corrected. There were still instances of overlinking, though. It looks to be in better shape following SteveO's edits. Shimeru 20:00, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Green Green Grass has been italicized and the episode titles are now just in quotation marks. I've edited out many of the parentheses (I'll try and do the rest later), the erroneous apostrophe has been removed and "Several non-regular one-off specials" has been re-written. SteveO 15:54, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

All of Shimeru's objections have now been rectified. SteveO 14:43, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support. An excellent first FA by TS. It has been through enough improvements to merit FA status. 82.6.164.68 18:22, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]