Talk:Black Beauty/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: J Milburn (talk · contribs) 17:48, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm afraid this article is not ready for GA status. Writing about such important/influential books is going to be difficult, and this article has a number of problems.

Here are some bigger issues:

• Why is there just a "plot introduction"? We need a full plot summary!

 Done

I'm not just talking about the section title- we don't need a general description of what the book is about, we need a summary of the actual plot. J Milburn (talk) 18:58, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

• "Qualities of the book" and "Reaction to the book" are weird titles- how about "analysis" and "reception" respectively? On that note, "Background" would make more sense than "history".

 Done

• Sections of the article are unreferenced. There are unreferenced quotes in the history section, and the various adaptation/influence sections are completely unsourced.
• The lists should be made into prose. The links to the IMDB are not useful- if the films are notable, link to Wikipedia articles (or redlink, if articles are yet to be created). If they aren't notable, just lead them as-is.
• Your source formatting is odd/inconsistent; the use of citation templates may be helpful. It's unclear what several of the sources are supposed to be ("Coslett, pg. 69." tells me nothing, for example)
• The article contains some pretty glaring errors. One book cited literally does not exist. I made a change which I assume reflects what was meant.
• There is a lot of literature out there on this novel- more really needs to be looked into before this is ready for a GAC nomination.

If you have specific questions, you're welcome to ask me here or on my talk page, but hopefully the comments above will give you an idea of the kinds of things which would be needed. I am closing the review at this time. J Milburn (talk) 17:48, 8 February 2015 (UTC)