Talk:Bad Girls Club/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Jezhotwells (talk) 15:55, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I shall be reviewing this article against the Good Article criteria, following its nomination for Good Article status.

Disambiguations:None found, but I note that in Airings and locations the wikilink to Season 7 points back at this article. Jezhotwells (talk) 16:06, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Linkrot: none found. Jezhotwells (talk) 16:06, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Checking against GA criteria

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
Organisation: The "U.S. television ratings" section contains information already in the preceding "Airings and locations of the show" section, so I suggest merging these to avoid duplication.

There are a lot of very short sections, such as ""Bad Girls"", "List of episodes", "Merchandise", "Other media" which are unnecessary and should be merged into other sections.

There is no "Reception" section.

The prose is poor, e.g. The show was created by Jonathan Murray and is produced by Bunim/Murray Productions (the same company that produces the reality series The Real World). , During the premiere of Bad Girls Club Miami recorded a record high view of 1.34 million viewers, the series went to break the "biggest premiere" ever in Oxygen history, according to Nielsen Media Research, until the debut of season six, which broke all previous records of Oxygen and the Bad Girls Club franchise, across all key demos, On August 3, 2010, during the OxygenLive TV recap episode, re-imagined live television experience that, for the first time, combined social medias Facebook and Twitter with program content, which allowed fans of the show to submit their own opinions and comments about the show and the seven "bad girls" which were aired on television during the 10 p.m hour, The live show was introduced for the first time during the debut of season 6 to dish out gossip, rumors, confessions, and expressions that some "bad girls" of season six or "all-stars", during a particular episode, While there, a random guy offered to buy drinks for the two ladies. While doing so, the guy added PCP hypnotic sleeping pills which made Kristen to be intoxicated. are examples.

The article needs to be re-written and organised in a correct encyclopaedic tone.

There are a number of single sentences which need consolidating into paragraphs.
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
Citation needed tag needs addressing.

Forums such as {http://www.oxygenlive.com/} are not RS

The IMDb episode link in ref #33 is a dead link
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
As mentioned above a "Reception section" is needed. Also more information about the participants, the aim of the shows, is there a winner in each season?, are girls voted out, etc.
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
Quiet a lot of Ip edits, but swiftly reverted by article maintainers.
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):
The captions are semi-literate. The picture of the Hollywood sign is not particularly useful.
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
This is a long way from meeting the WP:GACR criteria at this time. I have pointed out serious issues above. I suggest that you take a look at other articles on TV reality shows (The X Factor (UK), American Idol), which have had some form of assessment for ideas on organisation, then get the results copy-edited, submit for peer review before renomination. Jezhotwells (talk) 16:40, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]