Talk:The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter

The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter has been listed as one of the Language and literature 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.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
January 3, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 8, 2009.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that David Colbert was given permission to publish the book The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter only if there was a note on the cover stating that it had not been approved by J.K. Rowling?

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: The Flash ^{talk} 02:55, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hiya. I caught this quaint little article while sifting through GAN, and it's a sure-fire pass for GA. I'll be conducting the review in the manner of Talk:I Married Marge/GA1. Let's start. :) The Flash ^{talk} 02:55, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

Short but to the point—nice.

Content

"Colbert explains in the introduction of his book[...]" → "[...]of the book[...]" as to not confuse readers that you're talking about a different book.
- Done The leftorium 11:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There's some times where it strays from "he explains" to "he commented," so please pick one tense to stick with.
- Done The leftorium 11:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Background

Please explain that his nephew and nieces are children before you refer to them as "the children."
- Done The leftorium 11:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Wikilink to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
- Done The leftorium 11:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps change "[...]began to notice mythology references in the book" to "[...]notice mythological references[...]"
- Done The leftorium 11:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Can you merge the second and third sentences in the last paragraph?
- Done The leftorium 11:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Publication and reception

~~Same as above—work with fixing tenses to be consistent.~~
- Not done What parts are you referring to? The leftorium 11:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Never mind, after another read, the issues I had with that are to minor to count. The Flash ^{talk} 17:27, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter has been praised for learning children about literature and history" → "[...]praised for teaching children[...]"
- Done The leftorium 11:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Please give a brief explanation about the Narnia book, like what you said about the Lord of the Rings one.
- Done The leftorium 11:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Images

Can you add one of these images? From what I can tell, book FU images are like those of films and video games: infobox images are perfectly fine to use for identification purposes.
- I don't feel an infobox image is useful here. The leftorium 17:35, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Any particular reason, though? The Flash ^{talk} 18:31, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - I just don't see why we should use a non-free image in this article when it's not useful. The leftorium 18:46, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      - It is useful—identification purposes. The Flash ^{talk} 19:52, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        People can identify the book by reading the text, IMO. The leftorium 19:55, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        
        The people at WP:NFC seemed okay with it so I've added the cover art. I can't come up with any ALT text for it so feel free to do that yourself if you think it's necessary for GA. The leftorium 21:12, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        Alright, thanks; I've added ALT text for you. The Flash ^{talk} 03:21, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Both images are fine—but can you please add some ALT text?
- Done The leftorium 11:49, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Final say

To be done when above issues are taken care of.

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
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:
Nice work! I'm going ahead and passing it. Thanks for your diligence throughout. :) The Flash ^{talk} 03:25, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for the review! :) The leftorium 10:52, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]