Talk:X-Men (film)/GA2

GA Reassessment

Hello there, I am Wildroot and noticed this article went to GA status. I have brought over 15 film articles to GA status, including X2 (film). A long time ago, (late 2007), I worked on the X-Men (film) article. Most of what is on the article currently is the work of me and User:Alientraveller. This was back when I was a terrible editor, nowhere near the greatness of where I am today.

I have respect for User:Gary King, he has reviewed a lot of my own articles to get them to GA status. I'm not sure why he nominated this article. The lead section is unbearably long and doesn't contain all the information in the article. The plot section is mildly long (not that big of a problem), most of the reports in the casting section is by phony-boloney internet rumors and reports.

I intend to start from scratch on this article (sort of) and use it as my next project to GA status. I created a subpage months ago (User:Wildroot/X-Men). There's so much other info out there that still needs to be put in this article.

I'll give this a couple of days, see what other wikipedians think. And then it will be decided to drop this article from GA status.

Feel free to state your position on delisting this article from GA status by *'''Support''' or *'''Oppose''', then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia:Good article criteria.

• Support For obvious reasons above. —Wildroot (talk) 17:01, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support the delisting. I was surprised to see this listed as a Good Article, and I think that it is not up to par. What strikes me as particularly amiss is actual production information (especially costume design and visual effects), the themes of prejudice and discrimination as mentioned in the lead section without citation, and its role as one of the forerunners of the superhero film genre. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 17:12, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support Likewise, and the article doesn't use the X-Men 1.5 DVD information at all either. Alientraveller (talk) 17:15, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Well it has been a couple of days like I promised and the consensus is 3-0. This article will probably be back up to GA status anyway within a couple of weeks. I have already started working on it.—Wildroot (talk) 03:12, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Although it is likely this will return to GA status soon, in the future, GA reassessments should take place at the main page for that purpose. I don't disagree with the consensus, but for future references, please refer to the main page. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 04:02, 9 August 2008 (UTC)