Talk:Fight Club (novel)/GA1

GA Reassessment

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Good Article review progress box Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

Because I respect the integrity of the editor(s) who got this promoted years ago, I take no shame in offering the opinion that it no longer fits the GA criteria. I will remove it if no attempts are made anytime soon to fix it. What needs fixing:

• The intro is incredibly short and doesn't adequately summarize the article.
• The prose throughout features a number of short paragraphs, most of them without a topic sentence or equivalent.
• The prose at times is awkward and ambiguous, particularly in History.
• Plot contains some poor grammar, e.g. "recruiting fight club's members", inconsistent use of tenses.
• The article is poorly organized; Characters should come before or after Plot, History should be before Awards.
• There's essentially no Reception. Find more, split it—along with the sales stuff—into a new section, and merge Awards into it.
• Motifs and Themes contain a huge amount of original research and weasel-wording that compromises the article's neutral point of view. They look like something that would earn a 3 on the English Literature AP test.
• Some of the refs are formatted incorrectly or missing information.

It's urgent that you fix this if you want it to remain a GA; this article looks C-class to me and it's a disservice to keep it on the WP:GA list and thereby give readers the pretense that they'll be poring over something of contemporary quality. Please fix this. Tezero (talk) 05:55, 17 February 2014 (UTC)