Talk:Ian McDiarmid/GA1

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GA Reassessment

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As part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles' Project quality task force ("GA Sweeps"), all old good articles are being re-reviewed to ensure that they meet current good article criteria (as detailed at WP:WIAGA.) I have determined that this article needs some work to meet current criteria, outlined below:

• There are large sections of the article that are unreferenced; aside from the obvious WP:BLP issues, these need to be reliably sourced. Among them:
  • "He also played the part of Ivanov in Tom Stoppard's play Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the Mermaid Theatre in 1978."
  • "He has appeared most recently in the title role of John Gabriel Borkman, running at the Donmar Theatre in London."
  • "After a minor part in the film Dragonslayer, McDiarmid was cast by George Lucas in Return of the Jedi as Emperor Palpatine, the principal villain. Sixteen years after appearing in Return of the Jedi, he reprised the role as a younger Senator and Chancellor in the Star Wars prequel films. He attributes the opportunity to reprise his role to having been much younger than his character the first time he played the part."
  • "With this addition to The Empire Strikes Back, McDiarmid has now appeared in every film version in which Palpatine appears."
  • "He has also worked with the Star Wars Expanded Universe in which he reprised his role as Palpitine/Darth Sidious in the video game versions of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi:Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, and most recently Star Wars: Battlefront: Elite Squadron"
  • "McDiarmid took an early role as Mickey Hamilton, a killer intent on avenging the death of his wife and child in The Professionals for Granada. He played the role of police detective Porfiry Petrovich in the BBC's 2002 TV adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, also starring in an episode of Inspector Morse several years earlier, as psychopathic conman Hugo DeVries. In 2003 McDiarmid took the role of the Stuart statesman Edward Hyde, in the BBC series Charles II: The Power and The Passion."
  • "Recently, he played the writer and pioneer of policing, Henry Fielding, in the Channel 4 historical drama series City of Vice and Denis Thatcher in 2009's Margaret. McDiarmid played intelligence chief LeClerc in a 2009 BBC Radio dramatisation of John LeCarre's The Looking Glass War‎."
• What makes the following sources reliable? http://www.nerf-herders-anonymous.net, http://www.broadway.com/buzz/star-file/ian-mcdiarmid/ (page is dead), http://www.backstage.com/
• A paragraph has at minimum of three sentences; there are lots of one or two-sentence groupings throughout the article that need to be cut, merged, or expanded.

I am putting the article on hold for seven days, longer if significant progress is made on the above. Please keep me appraised of progress on this page. Thanks, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 17:37, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

As no progress has been made on the above, I am delisting. Please direct any comments or queries to my talk page—I don't have these reviews on my watchlist. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 15:46, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.