Talk:The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter

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Good articleThe Magical Worlds of Harry Potter has been listed as one of the Language and literature good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
January 3, 2010Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 8, 2009.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that David Colbert was given permission to publish the book The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter only if there was a note on the cover stating that it had not been approved by J.K. Rowling?

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: The Flash {talk} 02:55, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hiya. I caught this quaint little article while sifting through GAN, and it's a sure-fire pass for GA. I'll be conducting the review in the manner of Talk:I Married Marge/GA1. Let's start. :) The Flash {talk} 02:55, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lead[edit]

  • Short but to the point—nice.

Content[edit]

  • "Colbert explains in the introduction of his book[...]" → "[...]of the book[...]" as to not confuse readers that you're talking about a different book.
  • There's some times where it strays from "he explains" to "he commented," so please pick one tense to stick with.

Background[edit]

  • Please explain that his nephew and nieces are children before you refer to them as "the children."
  • Wikilink to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
  • Perhaps change "[...]began to notice mythology references in the book" to "[...]notice mythological references[...]"
  • Can you merge the second and third sentences in the last paragraph?

Publication and reception[edit]

  • Same as above—work with fixing tenses to be consistent.
    •  Not done What parts are you referring to? Theleftorium 11:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • Never mind, after another read, the issues I had with that are to minor to count. The Flash {talk} 17:27, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • "The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter has been praised for learning children about literature and history" → "[...]praised for teaching children[...]"
  • Please give a brief explanation about the Narnia book, like what you said about the Lord of the Rings one.

Images[edit]

  • Can you add one of these images? From what I can tell, book FU images are like those of films and video games: infobox images are perfectly fine to use for identification purposes.
    • I don't feel an infobox image is useful here. Theleftorium 17:35, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • Any particular reason, though? The Flash {talk} 18:31, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        • I just don't see why we should use a non-free image in this article when it's not useful. Theleftorium 18:46, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
          • It is useful—identification purposes. The Flash {talk} 19:52, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
            • People can identify the book by reading the text, IMO. Theleftorium 19:55, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
            • The people at WP:NFC seemed okay with it so I've added the cover art. I can't come up with any ALT text for it so feel free to do that yourself if you think it's necessary for GA. Theleftorium 21:12, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Both images are fine—but can you please add some ALT text?

Final say[edit]

To be done when above issues are taken care of.
GA review (see here for criteria)
  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (MoS):
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects): b (focused):
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. It is stable.
    No edit wars, etc.:
  6. 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):
  7. Overall:
    Pass/Fail:
    Nice work! I'm going ahead and passing it. Thanks for your diligence throughout. :) The Flash {talk} 03:25, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much for the review! :) Theleftorium 10:52, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]