Talk:Queen Vic Fire Week

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Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 9, 2010.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that in preparation for moving to HD broadcasting, the British soap opera EastEnders' set was lit on fire?

Sources

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Saw on your talk page that you were after some more reception, so dug a few titbits out for you :)

  • Glasgow Herald - mostly plot recap, but calls Peggy's farewell ep a "poignant edition".
  • Nottingham Evening Post not the biggest fans: "Never in the history of soap fires, of which there have of course been legion, have so many hilariously overindulgent explosions been captured on camera."
  • Mail on Sunday picked the fire ep as the "Soap of the Day"
  • The People - deemed the lack of deaths "a wasted opportunity."

Nothing very substantial, but I hope they're in some way helpful. Frickative 23:33, 16 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thank you :-) I would have probably found them eventually (though probably not if they're on findarticles.com). AnemoneProjectors 00:47, 17 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Any idea what "Standing in the ruins of the pub amid so many memories, Peggy's epiphany might have been that, in the words of HG Wells, arson is an artificial crime as 'a large number of houses deserve to be burnt'." is supposed to mean? I can't make sense of it lol AnemoneProjectors 13:30, 17 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, absolutely no idea! Googling didn't help at all. Just read the full review and it's a bit of an odd one - I particularly like the image of Peggy as a "sooty clockwork mouse". Perhaps you could use a different quote instead? This paragraph is quite good: "in hindsight, Peggy should have left Walford three or four years ago, her character trapped in a cycle of increasingly samey stories that reduced her to a parody of her former self. Given that her former self was something of a parody anyway, there was little dignity in it". Or maybe that's better suited to the Peggy article - up to you! Frickative 14:49, 17 September 2010 (UTC)Reply
I thought the quote sounded good but I can't make sense of it and if you can't either then I think it'll have to go. I shall find something else to replace it with. I reckon the last quote you just gave would be better for the Peggy article. But I'll check whe else is in the source. AnemoneProjectors 16:37, 17 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Queen Vic Fire Week/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Comments to follow shortly. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 03:08, 1 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

lead
  • A single-paragraph lead is a bit small for a 17k article
  • It reads more like an introduction than a summary of the body
  • I generally discourage citations in the lead, since it's supposed to be a summary
  • I don't suppose you can photoshop out the person in the photo? ;)
    • Frickative has kindly improved the lead for me. It now has more citations but that's because there are now quotes, which require them. Frickative said she'd look at putting the writers part elsewhere as well (I couldn't find anywhere to put it since there was no other information on the writing process). The picture could be photoshopped, since that's allowed, and I think it would be great as she's just a random person with no connection to the show, but I don't have that abiity! –anemoneprojectors18:17, 1 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
      • Wow, that's a lot bigger. Great work
Plot
refs
  • The locations aren't strictly necessary, but you need to be consistent: add the location of all the refs or none at all, also, the linking is inconsistent (Nottingham is linked, but Birmingham isn't)
    • I've linked all the locations, I'll look at adding the rest of the locations later, assuming I can find out what those locations are.
  • The Guardian is published by Guardian News and Media, GMG is the owner
    •   Done
  • Don't pipe News Group Newspapers to News International—we have redirects for a reason
    •   Done
ELs

The main issue is the lead. At least, that's the only serious point from a GA perspective. I'll leave this on hold to give you a chance to make the necessary fixes. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 04:09, 1 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

Comparison other Queen Vic Fires in the past

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Grant Mitchell burned down the Vic in 1992. Is there a source that mentions both Vic fire events? --George Ho (talk) 10:28, 15 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

I don't know. Have you tried looking for one? –AnemoneProjectors15:09, 15 March 2012 (UTC)Reply
Found one source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1291684/Is-moment-Queen-Vic-goes-flames.html --George Ho (talk) 03:53, 17 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

"Episode 4068" listed at Redirects for discussion

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  An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Episode 4068 and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 9#Episode 4068 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 22:04, 9 August 2022 (UTC)Reply