Talk:SpongeBob SquarePants season 7/GA1

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Reviewer: ChrisGualtieri (talk · contribs) 05:46, 2 January 2014 (UTC) I'll take this. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 05:46, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

• Disambig links: OK
• Reference check: Issues found

1. "SpongeBob SquarePants: Season 7" is Bare and tends to have connection issues.
2. Nickelodeon Upfront 2008 (info) [animationinsider.net] - Dead
3. Legends of Bikini Bottom To Debut on Facebook Before Nick (info) [awn.com] -redirect

Comments:

• "The season was executive produced by series creator Hillenburg and writer Paul Tibbitt, who also acted as the showrunner." - Executive produced? Huh?
• "The announcement was with the seventh season pick-up of The Fairly OddParents." Relevant?
• Normally I do not like the pictures from guest stars, as you've no doubt come to realize, but if you could appease me with a reduction in the sheer size, I'd be content for this particular one. West and Ward are notable in their own right, but they are not one-off appearances by any measure.
• The rest of the cast and reception is pretty much alright, but I can't help but notice the extra emphasis on large and lengthy quotes to round it out. I don't see why some of the lengthier quotes could be paraphrased and it just seems like it was done to bulk out the article in some fashion.
• Again the episode summaries are the stand out. In order to make themselves stand out from the list of episodes and provide some context to the reader, the target descriptions should be be 3-4 sentences or about 50 words each. These very short summaries do little to describe the season's episodes and this is the one article where I would expect them to be covered at the bare minimum for the broad category. I doubt I could really fail you for not filling them up more, but the episodes that comprise the season are the main focus of the article. Right now they still play second fiddle and the earlier seasons had much better summaries. So I am all for consistency, but I do insist that they be worked on. I'll give extra time to work on these issues, I do particularly like the antics of SpongeBob and I did take all the articles and review them as a group. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 23:35, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Please give me an update when you are done. It's just been a week, but I see you are still working on this. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 04:26, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Given that the article needs a lot of work and that its been more than two weeks, I have to fail this, but I'll keep the fifth season open. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 16:41, 19 January 2014 (UTC)