Talk:Death in Paradise (TV series)/GA1

GA Review

Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch

Reviewer: Khazar2 (talk · contribs) 23:14, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

I can take this one. Thanks in advance to everybody who's worked on it! Comments to follow shortly. -- Khazar2 (talk) 23:14, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

First, let me apologize that you've had to wait so long for a review; the backlog's really been terrible at GAN lately.

This article seems like it's off to a good start in many respects; the description of the characters is particularly well-fleshed out, and some parts are well-sourced. Other areas seem to need work, however, and it appears to me overall that this will need substantial expansion and rewriting to become a GA. You may want to look at a sample series GA like Arrested Development (TV series) or 24 (TV series) to get a sense of what's usually included.

Some specific suggestions:

• The lead needs to be rewritten to better summarize the body; no new information (the show's renewal for Season 3) should be given in the lead per WP:LEAD.
• Numerous short sections should be combined or expanded per WP:LAYOUT
• The section "Theme Song" lacks sources and appears to be WP:OR
• No critical response is included, though a Google search immediately confirms that reviews exist.
• Almost no information on the show's creation/production is included, such as its inspiration, its casting, its influences, etc.
• The reliability of some blog-like sources such as tvwise.co.uk should probably be doublechecked.
• More information should be given in the citations of bare links, and the one that's written in French should be at least partly rewritten in English.
• Episode counts for characters need citation as a statistic/figure
• "Character had a major role in the most recent series (Series 2)" -- should be rewritten per WP:REALTIME; will quickly go out of date.

Since there's significant work to be done here, I'm going to close this one and not list it for GA at this time. I hope you'll consider renominating once you've addressed the above points, however--this sounds like an interesting show, and I'd love to see it get to GA. I'll do what I can to make sure it doesn't have so long a wait next time (either reviewing myself, or recruiting someone else to do so).

Thanks again for all your work, and best of luck with this one in the future! -- Khazar2 (talk) 23:40, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Also, shouldn't Harry the Lizard be named as a recurring character? --82.14.248.55 (talk) 21:27, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Corrected San Francisco Station: airs on KQED, not KQEH...73.170.171.202 (talk) 23:17, 22 October 2014 (UTC)