Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Rikki Fulton

Rikki Fulton

The article wasn't fleshed out before I re-wrote it. I added most of the references and built upon the existing text to create a more detailed biography of Fulton. I hope to find out what people think could be added to the article and what parts need improved. I hope to add a lot more references from Fulton's autobiography, to try and mix the types of references found. -- My Name Is URL (talk) 23:53, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Review by DrKiernan

I'm concerned about the fair-use rationales on the two non-free use images: they may be too weak. The licensing on the other image is highly suspect. If the image (Image:Francie&josie.jpg) is free use, then the fair use rationales don't apply because there is a free use image with which they can be replaced. Maybe you can get around that by saying "no free use equivalent depicting him out of character" or something of the sort on the fair use items. If the image is not free use (as I strongly suspect) it's been uploaded with the wrong licensing tag, and it needs to be corrected or deleted. This is a complex issue (see Wikipedia:Image use policy and related pages). The rule of thumb is avoid any images that you think are suspicious and only use free-use ones if possible. Make any fair-use rationales as tight as possible including any and all arguments for the image's use. For example, you can only include cover art (like the autobiography) if the article contains critical commentary on the item, but you only really mention the book in passing, and the picture on the front cover is the same as the picture in the top-right corner of the article, indicating that one or other of them could replace the other. If you insert extra citations from the autobiography which adds considerably to the article or discuss how his version of events in his book differs from other sources then I feel this requirement would be satisfied.

Minor points: Please add {{persondata|PLEASE SEE [[WP:PDATA]]!}} along with the required parameters to the article - see Wikipedia:Persondata for more information.^[?] Can you say for what he received his OBE? Was it for "services to entertainment", or did he do charity work? If the latter, include it in the article.

I would lose the external link: IMDB is already in the references and its use is controversial anyway (see Wikipedia:Citing IMDb). Personally, I don't consider it a reliable source as, like wikipedia, anyone can contribute to it and references are hardly ever given. DrKiernan (talk) 13:04, 6 February 2008 (UTC)