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September 3, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed
November 7, 2012	Good topic candidate	Promoted

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GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: TBrandley (talk · contribs) 17:31, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

General

Overall, in this article, I see lots of curly quotes, when regular ' quotes should be used, rather than ’ curly quotes
Whoops. I think I got them all now.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I did a little copy-edit
Thanks!--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lede

NBC → the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), as per MOS:ACRO, for its first mention
Done.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Unlink television series per WP:OVERLINK
Done.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Plot

"$"? US dollar? Canadian dollar?
Done.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
"don't", "doesn't". Don't use contractions. Write out fully as "did not", "does not"
Done.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Production

"Lotto" was written by co-executive producer and frequent series writer Charlie Grandy." reference?
It's the one after the Krasinski info. I bundled it at the end rather than repeat it.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
"The official website for The Office", don't think that's important to the subject
I've only included it because all of the other season 8 articles use similar language. I don't want to start using a different format randomly in the middle.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps add TV rating from NBC.com
Done.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cultural references

Nothing to be found

Reception

Ratings: What channel was it on? It's nowhere to be seen.
Done.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
% → percent
Done.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
first-season → first season
Done.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

References

Why do some references use the UK format (Ref. 17), and some use US format? Please only choose one
I think they're gone now.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Ref. 2: "The Office, season 8" Season should be in capitals, since its like that on the URL
Done.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Double quotes (") should be single quotes ('), as per WP:MOS guidelines
Done.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
TV by the Numbers is published by Zap2it
Done.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Ref. 13 should be regular quotes rather than curly quotes
Done.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Ref. 12 has WP:DASH problems
Done.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Is "Screencrave" a high-quality source?
It has and editorial staff and I've used it for various other articles (mostly these season 8 ones) that have passed GA. If this was going for FAN, probably not, but for GA, it should be good enough.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Some references have publishers, some don't. Please add to all of them, or remove from all of them
Fixed.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

External links

No problems

This article is in good shape, and will be put on hold for the minor issues above. Cheers, TBran dl ey 17:56, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome! Thanks for the quick review.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 18:49, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your welcome. Article appears good. Pass. Well done! TBran dl ey 18:51, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]