Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Degrassi: The Next Generation

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The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted 23:15, 30 April 2008.

[edit] Degrassi: The Next Generation

previous FAC (02:34, 13 December 2007)

Self-nominator. The article has undergone a Good Article Review and and Peer Review since it's first FA nomination. It is currently a Good Article. The PR closed on April 9, since then the article has undergone minor and asethetic edits. It is fairly stable, except on Fridays, when new episodes air in the United States. -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 00:31, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Support My only issue was resolved. If there are other issues later, I am sure they will be fixed. I couldn't find anything major. Ottava Rima (talk) 01:54, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment The picture captioned "The character Emma Nelson, introduced in Degrassi Junior High," is causing heading problems and should probably be moved around, or "concept" should be expanded so that she fits in the whole section. Ottava Rima (talk) 00:44, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
I've moved it up to the top of the section and to the right side of the page for now. I'll trawl the internet to see if I can add anything else, but I think the paragraph covers all the information there is. How is the image placement now? -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 00:55, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Its better (heading wise) but now she is looking the opposite way. lol. That poor girl. I attempted a small expansion relying on the information provided in one of your references. How does that look? Ottava Rima (talk) 01:30, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
lol, I didn't even think about that! And your edit is wonderful, thank you. -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 01:33, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Support Glad to be of help at the Peer Review. PeterSymonds | talk 06:57, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Comments

  • What makes the following reliable sources?
    • current ref 4 Stohn, Stephen "Shooting Season 3" says it's from a message board.
      • That's right. The prose in the article under the Exec producers section gives more information:
"When production of season three began, a user on the official D:TNG website with the alias "ExecProducer" began a thread called "Shooting Season 3", revealing production details, guest actors, scheduling information and DVD release details. He referred to himself as "Stephen Stohn" in one post, although although it was not until the release of the Degrassi: Generations - The Official 411 guidebook in 2005, when Stohn confirmed the rumor." References are given in the article. I would hope that given this, an WP:IAR clause might apply here :) -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 20:48, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm going to leave this one out for other reviewers to decide for themselves. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:26, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Issues resolved, Ealdgyth - Talk 14:28, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
For some reason, the link checker tool didn't translcude onto the page, so didn't check that. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:36, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Everything has been addressed, I think. Thanks so far! -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 20:48, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Support - the peer review was vast and I'm glad to see all major issues have been well dealt with. Good work... The Rambling Man (talk) 15:59, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Addressed comments by Collectonian (talk · contribs) 
  • Support all my concerns have been addressed. Collectonian (talk) 04:52, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Oppose with some grammar comments: (it's early, so let me know if I'm wrong on anything)
  • "130 episodes have aired as of April 28, 2008." - Don't start a sentence with a number
  • Fixed with "As of April 28, 2008, 130 episodes have aired."
  • "The Degrassi universe was created in 1980 by Linda Schuyler, a former school teacher, and her partner Kit Hood under their production company Playing With Time" - passive voice
  • Fixed with "Linda Schuyler, a former school teacher, and her partner Kit Hood, under their production company Playing With Time created the Degrassi universe in 1980"
  • "During the next few months, they slowly start planning what has happened to the characters of Degrassi High in order to develop a reunion themed show." - wrong verb tense
  • Fixed with "Over the following months, they slowly started planning what had happened to the characters of Degrassi High in order to develop a reunion-themed show."
  • "In May, 2000, the project was pitched with the original reunion episode plan serving as the pilot to the new series." - passive voice
  • Fixed with "The project was pitched to CTV with the original reunion episode serving as the pilot to the new series in May 2000."
  • "During the first three seasons the lyrics, which include the line "whatever it takes, I know I can make it through", were performed by a children's choir over an 80s pop tune." - passive voice
  • Fixed by rewriting the first half of the paragraph.
  • "In season four the theme was reworked by Dave Ogilvie and Anthony Valcic of Canadian industrial/pop group Jakalope," - passive voice
  • Fixed with "Dave Ogilvie and Anthony Valcic of Canadian industrial/pop group Jakalope reworked and performed the song with a heavier sound, reflecting the growing maturity of the characters in season four."
  • "Jim McGrath creates a musical score using an instrumental version of the theme music" - this sentence seems odd. I think it should say "creates the"
  • Done
  • Completely pedantic question: In "Filming locations", is there any reason to write about Stages A, C, and B in that particular order?
  • Done Fixed by rearranging alphabetically
  • "In the pilot episode, seven actors from the previous Degrassi actors fourteen actors reprised their roles for a school reunion." - self-explanatory
  • Fixed with "The pilot episode featured the return of seven Degrassi alumni."
  • "An example of this is when he named Caitlin Bree from the movie Clerks after his favorite Degrassi character, Caitlin Ryan." - start with "for example"
  • Done
  • "In 2005, Smith and Mewes guest star as themselves in the final three episodes of the fourth season" - verb tense
  • Done
  • "While the earlier Degrassi series aired in Canada on CBC, Degrassi: The Next Generation airs on CTV, and as Degrassi, nouvelle génération on VRAK.TV, the French language channel.[51]." - stray period after the citation, "and as" doesn't make sense
  • Fixed with "...and the French language channel VRAK.TV as Degrassi, nouvelle génération'"
  • "and it wasn't until the ninth episode that CTV actually aired an episode before The N" - contraction
  • Done
  • "and it wasn't until the thirteenth that CTV were able to premiere new episodes" - contraction
  • Done
  • "Registered users of the Canadian and American iTunes Stores are also able to purchase" - try "can purchase" or "may purchase"
  • Done. Went with "may"
  • "By the end of season two, it had become the most popular Canadian show for the three younger age groups" - maybe "youngest" should be here?
  • Fixed. Also changed "kids" to children", "teens" to teenagers" and "adults" to "young adults"
  • "Criticism" should be renamed "Critical reception"
  • Done
  • "The latter episodes were not shown for three years, causing an uproar amongst fans who organised a petition and caught the attention of the CBC, the National Post and The London Free Press in Canada, and the New York Times in the U.S." - did the fans catch attention, or did the petition?
  • Good catch. Fixed.

This is what I have for now. Give me a shout when this has been taken care of.-Wafulz (talk) 13:02, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! Hopefully they've been addressed correctly. -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 17:47, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll give the article another read Thursday or Friday.-Wafulz (talk) 18:17, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
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