Talk:Cinematic style of Abbas Kiarostami

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[edit] GA review

First off, I'd like to note that, overall, I find the article deserving of GA status. However, it contains quite a few minor problems, which I'll discuss below. Some of these problems are unfortunately serious enough for me to place it on hold.

1. The main issue: the "Fiction and non-fiction" and "Themes of life and death" sections contain many statements which may be construed as original research. You have several options here—rewrite some of it, provide more references or move some of the text to the talk page and think about it/mess with it a little.
2. The article is very long. I'm mostly OK with it, but this will definitely raise objections during a Featured Article candidacy.

More minor problems:

1. Please check all film names and make sure they conform to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles).
2. Please add access dates to all web references—this is very important, particularly if you intend to go for FA.
3. There are still some run-on sentences, such as the following, from "Individualism":

   According to film professors such as Jamsheed Akrami, Abbas Kiarostami unlike many other contemporary filmmakers has consistently attempted to redefine film and film medium by lowering its full definition and forcing audience's increased involvement. In recent years he has also progressively trimmed down the size of his films which Akrami believes reduces the film making experience from a collective endeavor to a purer, more basic form of artistic expression.[33]

4. In "Poetry and photography", the paragraph on Riccardo Zipoli's paper is quite long, and, most importantly, lacks a citation to the work! :)
5. It would be nice to make the text in "Secondary literature" small.
6. A good round of copy editing would be a good idea before FAC.

It may not seem so from my comments, but this is an excellent article—so much so, it can get better :) Once these issues have been addressed, I'll have another look. Best wishes, Fvasconcellos 00:40, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

OK—after another round of edits by Sangak, I've re-read the article and found nearly all of the issues I raised to have been addressed. While there are still a few minor problems that a good copyedit would take care of, a few redundancies, etc., I believe this article does meet the GA criteria, and I am therefore passing it. Fvasconcellos 01:48, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

I can't find the name of this article in the list of Good articles. Therefor you shouldn't assess this article as GA before it would reach GA criteria.--Sa.vakilian(t-c) 07:40, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Cinema kiarostami.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:14, 13 February 2008 (UTC)