Talk:Doctor Who season 2/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Amitchell125 (talk · contribs) 15:25, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Happy to review the article.

Review comments

Lead section / infobox

• Link DVD.

Serials

• Link or convert inch.
• Link insecticide; meteorite; Roman villa; galley; time machine (Time travel).
• Consider linking Black Dalek (Dalek_variants#Mark_2_Daleks).
• Doctor locks the TARDIS doors and bids Susan an emotional farewell - ‘Doctor locks the TARDIS doors to shut Susan out, before bidding her an emotional farewell’ is more accurate imo.
• A minor point, but I think ‘transmitted’ sounds better (and more accurate) than radioed.

Casting and characters

• £10 and £25 – there needs to be some indication of what this is worth in modern currency. I would recommend using {{GBPConvert|10|year=1964|convert=no|r=-1|showdate=no}} which gives ‘£10 (equivalent to £190 in 2019)’.
• the final appearance of Russell and Hill as Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, respectively – the actors have the same role throughout the article, and so ‘the final appearance of Russell and Hill’ will surely do here.

Writing

• Link both King Richard and (his sister) Joan.
• I’m not sure about the statue as depictions of Nero and Richard I. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nero_pushkin.jpg and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Leon.jpg for what I consider to be better images to use.
• the Doctor and his companions shrinking in size - is duplicated information from the previous section.
• effective work on The Keys of Marinus – how was it effective?
• I would avoid a "stew pot", as it is idiomatic (see MOS:IDIOM).
• incorporate it - ‘incorporate comedy’?
• I would simplify The Daleks and its sequel The Dalek Invasion of Earth to something like ‘the first two Dalek stories’.
• scrapped for unknown reasons – this needs amending, as presumably the reasons were known to both parties at the time.
• Regardless – of what?

Promotion

• Link comic strip; National Film Theatre (BFI Southbank).

Books

• Should all the serials be linked again here? The links lead neither to articles or information about the novelizations.

On hold

Not much to comment on, considering the large size of the article I'm putting it on hold for a week until 5 February to allow time for the issues raised to be addressed. Regards, Amitchell125 (talk) 16:12, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

@Amitchell125: Thanks for the review! I've made some changes per your suggestions. Please let me know if there's anything else! – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 12:08, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Passing

All sorted except for the comment about the Books section, which I think can be safely ignored. Passing now, congratulations on producing a fine article. Amitchell125 (talk) 13:16, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

To be clear, the serials in the Books section link directly to the relevant novelisations. Thanks for the review! – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 14:35, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Understood, many thanks. Amitchell125 (talk) 19:10, 29 January 2023 (UTC)