Wikipedia:Peer review/Nelvana/archive1
Nelvana[edit]
Seventh peer review: This is what I consider to be the Wikipedia Extreme Makeover of the year (as far as articles on animation companies are concerned). The article on one of the most famous Canadian cartoon studios, Nelvana, has been ignored outright by the entire WP community (in terms of improvement and expansion) until just about now.
This page has been with us Wikipedians since mid-April 2003. It was started by LittleDan and extended a little by Menchi and BillBell in the space of only two and a half months.
Over the course of many more months, it lay dormant in the way of editing until late 2004, when it started to turn into a list of the company's shows, movies and specials, something that normal Wikipedia articles do not encourage. It changed little, more or less, until I started to come into the picture, adding a historical tidbit on the company's founders (whose articles I created), two external links and the French entry.
Apart from two formatting edits, and addressing a concern about the content on its Talk page, I took a really long time off from the page to focus mainly on Care Bears articles and divers nostalgic subjects. One of them (again dealing with a Nelvana film), which I extensively worked on, has gotten a green plus for now, if not a featured star. Meanwhile, in the words of Mintguy, "the lunatics [were] taking over the asylum"—minions of MascotGuy and several other users and IPs did almost nothing serious as to getting it better...
That being said, Googlers are now looking at mirrors of the page's former poor self at reference.com, NationMaster and FreeDictionary, among countless others. Sooner or later, Answers.com will have to update its entry.
Inspired by my love of the company's first film, Rock & Rule, I decided to head back to the Nelvana article and improve it with a burning vengeance. Now everything's been set—the list has been spun off into its own page, and the article is coming close to becoming the online resource for enthusiasts of the company's long history.
So, subsequent fair use rationales and red-link erasure aside, how far have I succeeded? Give me a response during the next few days and I'll see what I can do.
May this succeed as the first FA for a cartoon company, one that others like it can follow in time to come. Who knows, it could go into a translation drive later on in the year. Hail Canada—and happy Fourth of July!
(Whoo...! Is this the longest a PR intro has ever gotten? I've spent hours typing this out.) --Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 01:57, 4 July 2006 (UTC)