Talk:Stephen Colbert/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:

• Clearly unsourced statments below need to be dealt with:
  • "The Colbert children, in order from oldest to youngest, are James ("Jimmy"), Edward ("Eddie"), Mary, William ("Billy"), Margo, Thomas ("Tommy"), Jay, Elizabeth ("Lulu"), Paul, Peter, and Stephen."
  • "Despite his earlier aversion to the comedy group, he signed up for improvisation classes, and enjoyed the experience greatly."
  • "Another running joke throughout the series was that Noblet, a closeted homosexual, was having a "secret" affair with fellow teacher Geoffrey Jellineck despite the fact that their relationship was apparent to everyone around them. This obliviousness also appears in Colbert's Daily Show and Colbert Report character." (clearly original research, nuke this)
  • "Colbert has appeared in several recurring segments for The Daily Show, including "Even Stevphen" with Steve Carell, in which both characters were expected to debate a selected topic but instead would unleash their anger at one another. Colbert also commonly hosted "This Week in God," a report on topics in the news pertaining to religion, presented with the help of the "God Machine." Colbert also filed reports from the floor of the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention as a part of The Daily Show's award-winning coverage of the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Presidential elections; many from the latter were included as part of their The Daily Show: Indecision 2004 DVD release. In several episodes of The Daily Show, Colbert filled in as anchor in the absence of Jon Stewart, including the full week of March 3, 2002, when Stewart was scheduled to host Saturday Night Live. After Colbert left the show, the duty of filling in for Stewart was assumed by Rob Corddry until his departure in August 2006. Corddry also took over "This Week in God" segments, although a recorded sample of Colbert's voice is still used as the sound effect for the God Machine. Later episodes of The Daily Show have reused older Colbert segments under the label "Klassic Kolbert." Colbert won three Emmys as a writer of The Daily Show in 2004, 2005, and 2006."
  • "The actual Colbert's career history in acting and comedy, however, is often downplayed."
  • "Colbert in support of the United States Military and in association with the USO brought his show to Baghdad, Iraq on June 5, 2009 to film a week of shows, entertain the troops, and boost morale for forces in Iraq. Called Operation Iraqi Stephen, The episodes were filmed from the 7th-9th of June, 2009."
  • "Colbert appeared in a small supporting role in the 2005 film adaptation of Bewitched. He has made guest appearances on the television series Curb Your Enthusiasm, Spin City, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and on the improvisational comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He voiced the characters of Reducto and Phil Ken Sebben in the Adult Swim's Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law but left the show in 2005 to work on The Colbert Report. His characters were both killed, though he returned to voice Phil for the series finale. Colbert also has provided voices for Cartoon Network's The Venture Bros., Comedy Central's Crank Yankers, and American Dad!, as well as for Canadian animated comedy series The Wrong Coast. He appeared as Homer Simpson's life coach in the Simpsons episode "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs"."
  • "He appeared in a series of TV commercials for General Motors, as a not-too-bright investigator searching for the elusive (and non-existent in real life) "Mr. Goodwrench." He also portrayed the letter Z in Sesame Street: All-Star Alphabet, a 2005 video release."
  • "Colbert is a producer of The 1 Second Film, the world's largest nonprofit collaborative art film. His video request that IMDb list his credit for The 1 Second Film ("it is as valid as most of my credits") enabled thousands of the film's producers to be listed in the massive movie database until they were recently removed." (also smells like Original research)
  • "In 2009, Key West High School student Heindrek Allen began an attempt to name a newly built wind turbine on the Key West High School Campus "The Stephen T. Colbert Wind Turbine" in honor of Stephen Colbert.[citation needed]" - might be true, most likely high school student vandalism.
• This segment: "Though Colbert's real-life presidential campaign had ended, current Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada established in an interview on The Colbert Report that Colbert's campaign is still going strong in the fictional Marvel Universe, citing the cover art of a then-recent issue of The Amazing Spider-Man which featured a Colbert campaign billboard in the background. Background appearances of Colbert campaign ads continue to appear in Marvel Comics publications, as recently as August 2008's Secret Invasion #5 (which also features a cameo of an alien Skrull posing as Colbert). In October 2008, Colbert made an extended 8-page appearance webslinging with Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man issue #573.[68]" is outdated.
• This is a (deserved) cleanup tag on the list of honors; the least important should be weeded out, and others should be summarized and folded together. Info about his White House gig belongs (and is) in the main article, and is not needed here.
• Images: File:Stephen Colbert Knighthood.png, File:Colbert Dinner.JPG, File:Colbert report.jpg, and File:Stephen Colbert TDS.png are all non-free with spectacularly poor fair use rationales. Given that they are of a living person whose television persona looks exactly like him and there's no critical commentary related to that therein, there's no reason for any of the images. Axe 'em.

I am putting the article on hold for one week pending progress towards implementing the above changes. Keep me posted in this space. Thanks, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 18:38, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

As no significant progress has been made in the time alotted, I am delisting the article. It may be renominated by anyone at anytime via WP:GAN, however I encourage nominators to address the issues above first. If someone has questions or comments, please take it to my talk page. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 14:28, 8 January 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.