Talk:Bikini Bottom

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Archive: Talk:Bikini Bottom/Archive One

Contents 1 Peer Review Updates 2 Comments on Peer Review Updates 3 Bikini Bottom and the city of Los Angeles 4 Remove this from the article / New peer review 4.1 National anthem 5 Comments from the new peer review

[edit] Peer Review Updates

I am using the peer review tool (using monoboook) This will hopfully help this article. I will be updating this per the peer review tool. Hopfully, this list will decrease, and the quality of the article will be better.

The following suggestions were generated by a semi-automatic javascript program, and might not be applicable for the article in question.

• Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Lead. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.^[?]
• There may be an applicable infobox for this article. For example, see Template:Infobox Biography, Template:Infobox School, or Template:Infobox City.^[?] (Note that there might not be an applicable infobox; remember that these suggestions are not generated manually)
• Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Build the web, years with full dates should be linked; for example, link January 15, 2006.^[?]
• Per WP:WIAFA, this article's table of contents (ToC) may be too long- consider shrinking it down by merging short sections or using a proper system of daughter pages as per Wikipedia:Summary style.^[?]
• Avoid using contractions like (outside of quotations): aren't.
• Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.^[?]

You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, AMK152^{(Talk • Contributions • Send message)} 20:28, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comments on Peer Review Updates

Post comments here about the Peer Review Updates. -AMK152 02:21, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

As of right now, we don't really have a free use image, and there already is an infobox (but could be expanded more.) So basically, this article just needs to be copyedited, in addition to those suggestions that were not automated. -AMK152 02:23, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

We could find a free use image...just make sure all images have a rationale so they aren't deleted. ForestH2 t/c 16:37, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Aren't they Free use images? I mean they wen't uploaded on a Yahoo or Google image search...I think there free use images, since there watched on a computer, and not uploaded from Google or Yahoo. ForestH2 t/h/c 00:49, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bikini Bottom and the city of Los Angeles

There is a statement in the article that Bikini Bottom resembles Los Angeles. The citation for this statement in merely an episode title. This seems wrong. LA is a very crowded city full of sky-rises. SpongeBob's street seems to have wide open spaces. Additionally, the Krusty Krab is in the middle of nowhere. SpongeBob's driving lessons occur on endless streets in a buildingless countryside. I know there are some populated areas with buildings, but it is nothing like LA's overcrowding.--^DarkTea 14:37, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Remove this from the article / New peer review

I think this part of the article should be removed:

[edit] National anthem

Bikini Bottom has its own national anthem, which goes as follows:

Oh, Bikini Bottom, we pledge our hearts to you,

As faithful, as deep, as true, as blue,

Bikini Bottom, we love you!

It's sounds kind of fancrufty for an article that is trying to reach featured article status. Here's a new peer review, since AMK hasn't updated it for months.

The following suggestions were generated by a semi-automatic javascript program, and might not be applicable for the article in question.

• Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Lead. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.^[?]
• Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Build the web, years with full dates should be linked; for example, link January 15, 2006.^[1]
• Per WP:WIAFA, this article's table of contents (ToC) may be too long- consider shrinking it down by merging short sections or using a proper system of daughter pages as per Wikipedia:Summary style.^[2]
• Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.^[3]

You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks,

Not much has changed since the last peer review. Squirepants101 01:27, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

• The actual words to the anthem don't have to be there, but at least a mention that there is an anthem. -AMK152^{(Talk • Contributions • Send message)} 01:53, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comments from the new peer review

I've submitted a new peer review for Bikini Bottom and this is what I got so far:

It's far too in universe - it's not enough to just say 'such and such is a fictional...' and then go on in the rest of the article treating it as if it's real. All of your citations are to the show itself - did the creators of the show ever discuss Bikini Bottom in interviews etc.?

Might as well tag this article as being written in an in-universe style, then. I will update this everytime the request for peer review receives a new comment. Squirepants101 12:31, 29 March 2007 (UTC)