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The Power of Nightmares[edit]

Controversial BBC documentary. As of the 17th, this is awaiting a review at WP:GAC, and I am interested in how much it would take to get this to featured article status someday. Not a lot is known about production, and judging by the documentary (a montage of BBC archive footage) it doesn't look like there's much to know about it. --Lenin and McCarthy | (Complain here) 16:46, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Belovedfreak[edit]

Looks pretty good. A couple of small things I noticed:

  • Shouldn't "Synopsys" be "Synopsis"?
  • In the "Part 1 - Baby It's Cold Outside" section, it says "at a church-organised dance for young people", but you have used ize versions of words through the rest of the article.

That's all I can see at the moment. --Belovedfreak 21:15, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment by Erik
  • Should I assume that you're not a fan of the Cite news template? I found the date and accessdate attributes' bare-bones display odd and wasn't sure if you had a reason for not using the template, which would format the attributes based on the viewer's preferences.
  • Is there a reason for the Islamism template at the end? Usually, I see such templates used when the article's subject (meaning the documentary) is a part of it. This does not seem to be the specific case here. A more appropriate template would be one for Adam Curtis's productions. (Maybe the "See also" section can be removed and links be placed in such a template.) Readers can visit wiki-links in the article and find out more about the subject matter, including the Islamism template.
    • It was there when I first started rewriting. I'll replace it with an applicable categorization, but I don't really know that much about making templates. --Lenin and McCarthy | (Complain here) 18:38, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Is there a way to break up the Reactions section? Not by positive/negative, but perhaps by local and international? It's just a rather long body of text.
    • That could probably be done, and I'd probably find more specific reviews for the film in the process. --Lenin and McCarthy | (Complain here) 18:38, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Possible issue: I don't know where to find "international" reviews outside the US. I'll check Google, but I don't know. --Lenin and McCarthy | (Complain here) 00:03, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Doesn't necessarily have to be by region, but by the type of criticism... like for the technical aspect of the documentary format, and the accuracy/inaccuracy of information. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 16:14, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • There seem to be some minor copy-editing issues, but I hate to write out whole sentences to say that it's missing this kind of punctuation. I will see if I can brush anything up personally and save you the trouble.

Hope you can make use of my suggestions. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 14:21, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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