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The article was not promoted by GrahamColm 10:03, 27 October 2013 (UTC) [1].[reply]

Home (The X-Files)[edit]

Nominator(s): Bruce Campbell, Gen. Quon (Talk) 03:46, 20 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is an extremely infamous episode of The X-Files, noted for its extreme violence and horror. I am nominating this for featured article because I feel it is ready for FA. It was promoted to GA in the early part of 2012, then promoted to A-class in the later part of 2012. Bruce Campbell submitted it for FA consideration, but at the time, it was not considered. Since then, it has undergone extensive editing and copy-editing, courtesy of Bruce Campbell, myself, Sarastro1, and JudyCS. All of the references are of the highest quality, its format is similar to other X-Files episodes that have been promoted to FA, and the prose is neutral, informative, and of good quality. I feel it is ready. Any comments would of course be appreciated. As a note, I am co-nominating this in Bruce Campbell's name. She contributed the most to this article, but isn't very active anymore.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 03:46, 20 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Some comments from Ruby2010

I remember a co-worker telling me about this episode years ago (in particular, the deformed mother under the bed), and it's always been an image that's stuck with me when I think of the series! This article is typical of the high quality work I've seen from Gen.Quon (and Bruce Campbell), and I've only found minor issues here. I see nothing barring my support after these have been addressed.

Why no wikilinks for Duchovny and Anderson in the plot section? Especially as you have wikilinks for the other actors
That was just a mistake. Added.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 20:03, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
What made the Ward family "unusual"? Other than living on a farm with low levels of literacy, I'm not sure I see anything that abnormal (I assume they did other odd deeds?)
I removed that word.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 20:03, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The filming of "Home" was an unpleasant experience for Smallwood -- I had forgotten who Smallwood was by this point. Perhaps change to his full name?
Done.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 20:03, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
...states that the episode "presents of dual nature" of Scully's "modern desire for motherhood,"... -- something about this sentence doesn't quite work. It might be the "presents of dual nature" part that needs fixing.
Removed the quotes and copyedited it to make sense.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 20:03, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not way keen on the spoilers about Scully's later pregnancy in the themes section. I understand that Wikipedia does not avoid spoilers, but I'm not sure how relevant it is to the plot of this particular episode. Thoughts?
Well, I think the sources are trying to say this is the starting point for a lot of the motherhood stuff that comes up later in the series. I feel uncomfortable removing it.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 20:03, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I think the later reception would have more meaning if you added in the years of the reviews.
Done.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 20:03, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
More minor nitpicks: Refs 56 & 58 is missing the date (October 2, 2010 and July 20, 2012, respectively). Ref 44 should have a "pp" (pp. 83–84).
Good catches. I also switched from British style datings to American.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 20:03, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
For the William B. Davis book reference, first I think the "B." should follow William, not Davis. Also, why wikilink ECW Press? (Especially when the similarly-published book above it lacks such a wikilink?). There should be some consistency with publisher wikilinks (for another example, you link the publisher in the Peterson book but not the Waddell work).
All of the publishers are now Wikilinked. This section was actually pretty messy, so I fixed it.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 20:03, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Also in the Waddell source, you have an errant comma after Routledge (it should be a full stop). Ruby 2010/2013 18:55, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 20:03, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support on comprehensiveness and prose. I read this on my android yesterday and enjoyed same. No prose-clangers jumped out at me and it is pretty detailed. Nice read. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 13:02, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comments –

I noticed a few unnecessary links in the lead. Incest, globalization, and motherhood don't seem to require links since they are such general terms.
Writing: "the actor who played the series main antagonist The Smoking Man." Apostrophe at end of "series"?
Themes: "According to Sonia Saraiya of The A.V. Club writes that..." This surely needs a modification.
Comma after Blue-Collar Pop Culture?
Initial ratings and reception: "translating to roughly 11.9 percent of all television-equipped households, and 21 percent of households watching television, were tuned in to the episode." This reads oddly to me. Would putting "that" before "were" help?
In the bibliography, The Nitpicker's Guide to the X-Files has an apostrophe, but the one here doesn't.
Later reception: Not sure the first word of "Post-9/11" should be capitalized. Giants2008 (Talk) 20:33, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I believe I have addressed all of the issues that you brought up. Thank you for the comments.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 05:10, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Graham Colm (talk) 18:59, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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