Talk:Twinkle Khanna/GA2

GA Reassessment

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Good Article review progress box Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

I think the GA criterion this article has the biggest issue with is WP:NPOV. I'll repeat what I wrote on the talk page when I tagged the article with {{POV lead}}:

I think the intro has some issues with promotional tone. It devotes a lot of space to the sales figures of her books, and (seemingly not very noteworthy) awards that she's won, e.g. the "Crossword Book Award", "Outlook Award [...] for the most inspiring woman of the year", "Hello! India magazine's Visionary woman of the year", and "the Vogue Opinion Maker Of the Year". This contributes to a tone that reads more like a press release than an encyclopedia article. There are also some WP:PEACOCK issues, e.g. Khanna was invited to be a part of an eminent panel.

WP:PEACOCK also bears on criterion 1b, since one of the MoS guidelines it requires adherence to is MOS:WORDS.

Though it's worst in the intro, I think there's also some promotional tone leaking into parts of the body (e.g. Penguin Random House have announced that Twinkle Khanna's book Mrs Funnybones hit the Nielsen bestseller list at number 2 in its first week of sales. Launched in Mumbai on 18 August, the book has already reached number 1 on the bestseller chart of Crossword's Kemps Corner store and has been receiving praise from readers and press.). Colin M (talk) 01:51, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Update: Since it's been a couple weeks and there's been no response to this review, nor substantial changes to the article, I'm going to go ahead with delisting this article for now. Colin M (talk) 18:09, 10 April 2019 (UTC)