Talk:Big Brother (British TV series) series 10/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 05:49, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

I'll be reviewing this tomorrow. It's quite a large article so it may take a little while. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 05:49, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Due to the article's size, I'll split the review into each subsection:

Production

No issues. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear}

Format

No issues. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear}

Housemates

No issues. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear}

Summary

• "Big Brother set the non-housemates a series of tasks by which they could earn the right to become housemates." Did you mean sent? If not I'm misreading or something since the sentence seems odd.

 Done KingOfTheMedia (talk) 20:47, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

• "In the first task Rodrigo was given four minutes to persuade another housemate to allow him to shave off their eyebrows and have a moustache and a pair of glasses drawn on their face with a permanent marker until further notice." Too many 'and's, and onlythe to persuade or to allow is needed, not both.

 Done KingOfTheMedia (talk) 20:47, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

• "With 6.8% of the vote Beinazir became the first evictee without ever becoming a housemate.[48]" It might be helpful to note that in just the first voting, the lowest % got evicted rather than the highest, as at first I thought the % was just a typo.

 Done KingOfTheMedia (talk) 20:47, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

• "On Day 8, Saffia left the House" You use day 8 earlier, so maybe instead write 'on the same day'.

 Done KingOfTheMedia (talk) 20:47, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

• "During the task, Siavash, playing the King Henry VIII," Either that 'the' isn't needed or there's part of the story that's missing here.

 Done KingOfTheMedia (talk) 20:47, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

• "In week ten, following a spate of rule breaking" reword (though if spate is a common british term then nevermind - or did you mean spat?)

 Done KingOfTheMedia (talk) 20:47, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

• Should Day and House be capitalized? I don't know if that's appropriate for the series or if it's being done to look nice (okay if it's the first, not if the second)

A MOS consensus appears to have been established here - it looks like it's more the former than the latter. KingOfTheMedia (talk) 20:47, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Nominations Table

• No issues here. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear}

10th year commemorations

• "The first of which, The George Lamb Quiz of the Decade, was launched on 7 June." Fragment. Could probably be solved removing 'of which'.

 Done KingOfTheMedia (talk) 20:49, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Reception

• For the viewing figures section, are all the name-drops of other shows necessary? Using one or two for comparative purposes is fine, butit might be a bit overdone. Putting the weekly ratings into a table is a possibility as well if you'd like to try that.

Looking through the archive discussions, which is what I was advised to do when I first came to this page, it appears that the previous Big Brother UK articles used to use just tables to show day-to-day ratings with no context at all. A consensus was then established that this was unsuitable and that the section should be in prose with context provided; this is what we have here. Therefore, I don't think that changes should be made. KingOfTheMedia (talk) 20:56, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

References/Misc.

• Most of your |publisher=| should actually be |work=|, which are also auto-italicized. Work would be the newspaper/magazine itself, publisher would be if it's a company behind a paper/website/book. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 02:16, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Does it make a difference, as long as the correct parts are italicised and the correct parts are not? It looks the same to the reader at the end of the day. KingOfTheMedia (talk) 20:50, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

• I've noted the few comments you have above, and all things considered they aren't things I would worry about in terms of GAN progress. As a result, based on how the article is currently I'm passing it as a GA. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 23:54, 9 May 2010 (UTC)