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Matt Lanter has been listed as one of the Media and drama good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: January 14, 2023. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Matt Lanter appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 January 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that during Matt Lanter's audition for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, he was told that he was going to play Deak Starkiller even though he was actually going to play Anakin Skywalker?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Matt Lanter.

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Wording problem in 'Career' section of article.

In the 'Career' section of this article, it is stated: "He has also signed on to voice the role of Sled in Secret of the Wings, which will be released in October 2012."

The "which will be" part makes it sound like that the 2012 event is yet to occur.173.91.255.26 (talk) 02:04, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

Passed. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 23:23, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Reviewer: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 06:29, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): It is factually accurate and verifiable. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): It is broad in its coverage. a (major aspects): b (focused): It follows the neutral point of view policy. Fair representation without bias: It is stable. No edit wars, etc.: 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):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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Just some tweaks, mostly to the choppy prose style. 7-day hold to An anonymous username, not my real name. Ping me when changes have been made. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:29, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Copy changes

Your style has a lot of short paragraphs and choppy sentences. Some increased variety of sentences and length of paragraphs would go a long way to improving your prose.
Agreed; my editing style has improved much since then. I've cut down on excessive paragraphs.
His father worked in insurance and his mother was a school secretary. Comma after "insurance": see User:Sammi Brie/Commas in sentences
Done
Spell out "eight" instead of 8
Done
three episodes the missing "of"
Fixed
The Career section reads like a proseline. The paragraphs are short.
Fixed
Italicize Disaster Movie
Done
The film later appeared on Empire's 2010 poll, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Remove the comma after poll; that is essential information not to be buried in an appositive.
Done
Address the "who" tag next to Dave Filoni.
Fixed

Sourcing and spot checks

Earwig catches Apple TV using our lead section for their actor profile, but there are no substantial concerns beyond that.

Is there a way to replace reference 8 (IMDB) for the cancellation of Point Pleasant? Certainly there is some media coverage of its cancellation that is more reliable. Or at least that he was in the series.

I found another source.

Five sources were selected for spot checks. To replace #5, I spot checked another source:

4: Someone else won Manhunt. Y
5: Unsure what I'm looking for on this Rotten Tomatoes page.
This was to verify the appearance of another celebrity; it no longer serves any puspose, so I removed it.
7: This source doesn't mention Lanter, though it does mention the quick cancellation, Y
14: Appearance of Disaster Movie at #14 on the 50 Worst Movies list. Y
26: UPI piece on Matt Lanter's appearance in Timeless including mention of both its cancellations. Y
30: article on starwars.com mentions Lanter's roles. I'd accept this. Do add the author information. Y

Other items

Archive references with IABot (it's back!).
Done
There are two Creative Commons-licensed images. Add alt text.
Done

Sammi Brie, it's all done. An anonymous username, not my real name 16:42, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 16:33, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Matt Lanter

... that Matt Lanter did not know what character he was going to act as during his audition for Star Wars: The Clone Wars? Source: https://www.starwars.com/news/from-the-pages-of-star-wars-insider-matt-lanter
- ALT1: ... that during Matt Lanter's audition for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, he was told that he was going to play as Deak Starkiller when he was actually going to play as Anakin Skywalker? Source: https://www.starwars.com/news/from-the-pages-of-star-wars-insider-matt-lanter
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/GPS Air

Improved to Good Article status by An anonymous username, not my real name (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 19:21, 18 January 2023 (UTC).[reply]

Article was promoted to GA within seven days of nomination, meets newness and length requirements. I gave it a light copy edit, removing hyperspecific dates for e.g. releases of films that hinders the flow of sentences, IMO. QPQ requirement fulfilled. No close paraphrasing detected. Approve both hooks. DigitalIceAge (talk) 00:37, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]