Talk:Kevin Spacey/GA1

GA Reassessment

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Starting GA reassessment as part of the GA Sweeps process. Jezhotwells (talk) 23:41, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Checking against GA criteria

To uphold the quality of Wikipedia:Good articles, all articles listed as Good articles are being reviewed against the GA criteria as part of the GA project quality task force. While all the hard work that has gone into this article is appreciated, unfortunately, as of February 1, 2010, this article fails to satisfy the criteria, as detailed below. For that reason, the article has been delisted from WP:GA. However, if improvements are made bringing the article up to standards, the article may be nominated at WP:GAN. If you feel this decision has been made in error, you may seek remediation at WP:GAR.

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS):

   There are a large number of single sentence paragraphs and several two sentence paragraphs. The prose is choppy and parts of the article read like a list.

   The lead does not fully summarise the article, please see WP:LEAD for the guidelines. It also includes material not found elsewhere in the article, e.g. crooner.

   Other honors section. Surely just Awards or Honors? Although mentioned in the template at the bottom the major awards could do with being mentioned in this section

   Recommend a thorough copy-edit to unite the prose and improve the narrative flow

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

   The Career section is largely unreferenced.

   Other references check out.

3. :: The newly added note #7 [1] is sourced to a highly unreliable source and should be removed.

4. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

5. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

6. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

7. 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):

8. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

   On hold for seven days for the concerns mentioned above to be addressed. Major contributors and projects will be notified. Jezhotwells (talk) 00:03, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

   Some minor fixes have been made but the concerns listed above have not yet been addressed. If I don't get a response by tomorrow, this article will be delisted. Jezhotwells (talk) 17:19, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

   OK, I am delisting as the major points listed above have not been addressed during the past seven days. Jezhotwells (talk) 10:32, 1 February 2010 (UTC)