Talk:Brian: Portrait of a Dog

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Brian: Portrait of a Dog is part of the Family Guy (season 1) series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.

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Date	Process	Result
August 9, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed
September 1, 2011	Good topic candidate	Promoted

Current status: Good article

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Cultural Reference of episode title

There is no reason to believe that the title 'Brian: Portrait of a Dog' is inspired by 'Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer'. 'A: Portrait of a B' has been used as a title form many times - e.g. before 'Henry', 'Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic' and 'Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway'. I have been unable to pin down a specific link with H: POASK, so unless somebody finds one, I will be altering that reference. A small point, but not good to have an inaccuracy creep in by only the third sentence. Centrepull (talk) 12:52, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Brian: Portrait of a Dog/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 16:01, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

This article is in decent shape, but it needs more work before it becomes a Good Article.

Is it well written?
A. The prose is clear and concise, and the spelling and grammar are correct:
In the lead and/or plot, you might want to link "Griffin family" for those who don't know who they are. In the Production section, "...having wrote 'I Never Met the Dead Man'" ---> "...having written 'I Never Met the Dead Man'". Same section, "...and various crew and cast members for several episodes,[6]" is that comma suppose to be a period?
Check.

B. It complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation:
Throughout the article, please link "dog show", "Mike Henry", and "Neil Goldman" to their correspondence articles as at the moment they stand out as a disambiguations. In the Production section, "I Never Met the Dead Man" is not supposed to be in italics, but in quotations as it is an episode. In the Cultural references section, "Plessy v. Ferguson" is supposed to be italicized since it's a court case.
Check.
Is it verifiable with no original research, as shown by a source spot-check?
A. It contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline:

B. Reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose):

C. It contains no original research:

D. It contains no copyright violations nor plagiarism:
Is it broad in its coverage?
A. It addresses the main aspects of the topic:

B. It stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style):
Is it neutral?
It represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each:
Is it stable?
It does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute:
Is it illustrated, if possible, by images?
A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content:
~~File:1ACX07.jpg needs a lower resolution.~~
Check.

B. Images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:
Overall:
Pass or Fail:
Not that much to do. If the statements above can be answered, I will pass the article. Good luck!

-- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 16:01, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I belive CTJ has taken care of most issues. --Pedro J. ^{the rookie} 17:32, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, everything except the picture, my image editing program is having issues, so I'm trying to uninstall/reinstall it. CTJF83 chat 17:34, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you want, I can upload a lower resolution, I think I got this one program that can change the size of images. -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 17:58, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you could, please, I'm trying to find new software for myself. CTJF83 chat 18:08, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thank you to Ctjf for getting the stuff I left at the talk page, because I have gone off and placed the article as GA. Congrats. ;) -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 18:21, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the review. CTJF83 chat 18:28, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cultural Reference in episode

During the dog show, Brian is approached by a dog who sniffs his rear end to which Brian responds "do I know you?". That dog EXACTLY resembles Spike from the Rugrats, however beyond the obvious "cartoon dog" link, i couldnt find substantial evidence of an intended joke. perhaps an animator that worked both shows? i'm not much of a wiki contributor, so i put the info here for yoou actual editors to figure out.

Martyrdrebel27 (talk) 04:46, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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