Talk:Audition Day/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Rcej (Robert) - talk 07:18, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello again! What's say we try to get 30 Rock out of the queue, slowly but surely ;) A couple issues with this article to deal with:

• In Plot, the sentences in this paragraph are much too long and chaotic: "In Jayden's audition, Liz comes to the realization that Jayden's references—Gilbert Godfried, Martin Scorsese, and Christopher Walken—were faked and instead she talked to Jayden instead of Godfried, Scorsese, and Walken, after his audition piece featured a dinner party with all three and Jayden impersonating their voices. She confronts him about this, but he tells her that she has to hire him under any circumstances, as he has a camera with her fingerprints and in the camera are provocative photos of Jayden, and plans to blackmail her with this to make it look like Liz would only hire him if he would let her take pictures of his genitals. Liz leaves his dressing room, and tries to stop Jack from casting Jayden, though, Jack has made up his mind in hiring the robot street performer, after feeling "human" after he shook Jack's hand, and not caring that Jack had bedbugs."
  • How 'bout now? --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 16:42, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
    • Much better :) Rcej (Robert) - talk 04:59, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

• In Production, the line between real-world production aspects of this episode and plotlines of this and other episodes is often blurred to the point of rambling and irrelevance :) Maybe it could be pithier and more production-specific. Rcej (Robert) - talk 07:18, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
  • Do you mean the third paragraph of the Production section? --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 16:42, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
    • Let me just post the portion I'm referring, with the problem areas crossed out: "News anchor Brian Williams, of NBC Nightly News, made his second appearance as himself with this episode, in which he auditions to become a cast member of TGS. He first appeared in the season three episode "The Ones" in which Tracy Jordan has been giving out Williams's phone number instead of his. In one scene of "Audition Day", Jack Donaghy, who is riding the subway, asks passengers for directions to the 4 train so that he could retrieve his medicine for his bedbug condition, though, the passengers get away from Jack, including a homeless man. The homeless man was credited as Moonvest and played by Craig Castaldo, or known as Radio Man. Jack hiring the robot street performer in "Audition Day" was first introduced in the fourth season premiere episode "Season 4", in which he explains that the TGS staff have become too elitist and need to change to survive in tough economic times, and informs Liz to begin searching for a new cast member to help lessen this elitist image. Cast member Josh Girard is angered by this and quits. In the third episode, "Stone Mountain", Jack and Liz travel to Stone Mountain, Georgia, and Jack decides to hire an act of a ventriloquist named Rick Wayne (Jeff Dunham) and his dummy, much to Liz's displeasure. Liz, however, meets with Rick, but the dummy begins insulting her repeatedly, forcing Jack to destroy the dummy. In this episode, the audition process continues with many auditioning, including Josh who pleads to get his job back, confessing that he has been reduced to online gay pornography, though, his tryout is not successful. In the following episode, "The Problem Solvers", the street performer robot is introduced to the TGS crew as Jack Baker, but is renamed as Danny by Jack Donaghy, after realizing that Baker has the same first name as him. Actor Cheyenne Jackson made his 30 Rock debut as Danny Baker in "The Problem Solvers"." Rcej (Robert) - talk 04:59, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
      • Done. --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 15:09, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
        • Very nice :) Nutha pass! Rcej (Robert) - talk 05:51, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Results of review

GA review (see here for criteria)

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The article Audition Day passes this review, and has been upgraded to good article status. The article is found by the reviewing editor to be deserving of good article status based on the following 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: Pass