Talk:Confidence Man (Lost)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: BenLinus1214 (talk · contribs) 01:52, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

@Newyorkadam: Hi. Some comments:

• The infobox image is very blurry and not high-quality. Are there any more clear screenshots that you could grab of that scene?

It has to be low-quality to qualify as fair-use. Wikipedia:Non-free content#Image_resolution says "There is no firm guideline on allowable resolutions for non-free content; images should be rescaled as small as possible to still be useful as identified by their rationale, and no larger." It was originally a higher-quality screenshot (by me), but was reduced by a bot.

• "a few reviewers discussed aspects of it that they felt did not blend in well" I think that substituting "the episode" for "it" would be clearer.

Y

• Are these redlinks in the synopsis really necessary? What reason do you have to think they're helpful?

 Removed, but I generally support redlinks because I think they support Wikipedia's growth

• "The episode also shows the moral ambiguity of some characters by revealing more of their personalities, with the ones introduced as protagonists doing things that are generally not viewed as protagonist-like– an example being Jack beating Sawyer and eventually asking Sayid to torture him; and an antagonistic character, Sawyer, proving not to be solely antagonist-like– an example being his backstory and flashback, which show that he is not exclusively evil." This sentence is a mess—please rework it. Also, are these examples in your source?

I think it reads pretty well, it may be long, but the punctuation (in my opinion) makes it clear. No, these examples are not in the source, so it seems to be original research (albeit true). Do you think they should be removed?

• Once again, assuming that your whole paragraph is cited to one footnote, I would ref name it and pepper it in a few places in the paragraph, particularly after quotes.

Y

• "During the first few episodes, the lowest-testing characters (in terms of who the audience liked)". This is clunky, especially because you put "lowest-testing", a likely unfamiliar term, first. Might I suggest "Sawyer and Jin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim) were the least liked characters during the first few episodes,…"

Y

• "The episode ends with a montage…" This reads a bit informal—maybe "The episode ends with a montage of various characters performing different actions…"

Changed to "The episode ends with a montage of various characters performing different activities"

• For the bit about the lyric, I would specify that a reviewer made this remark--otherwise, it sounds a bit like OR.

Y Added "..., and, according to reviewer Therese Odell from the Houston Chronicle, ..."

• Is the Ryan McKinnie redlink necessary?

 Removed

BenLinus1214^talk 01:52, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay, I'll get to this soon. I've had a busy week. -Newyorkadam (talk) 19:17, 30 May 2015 (UTC)Newyorkadam

It's all good. I understand that people are busy sometimes. BenLinus1214^talk 23:30, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

@BenLinus1214: Sorry for the delay, I made the changes. Thanks. -Newyorkadam (talk) 17:08, 8 June 2015 (UTC)Newyorkadam

Okay. Pass. BenLinus1214^talk 01:13, 9 June 2015 (UTC)