Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Apprentice (UK Series Three)/archive1

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 not promoted 03:01, 26 November 2007.

[edit] The Apprentice (UK Series Three)

Seems to pass the criteria. Agree? Dalejenkins | 10:54, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose with a number of issues:

The lead doesn't adequately explain the concept to a reader unfamiliar with the show. The briefest of synopses of The Apprentice premise is needed to make sense of the rest of the lead.

The format section should also include a slightly longer explanation of the prize / the contestants goal.

There is no response section. The criticism and controversy section goes some way to including this information but it is also important to include info on the ratings, reviews of the show rather than coverage of the controversy generated and any awards and nominations it might have received.

There is no production section. There should be information detailing how the show is made, where it was filmed (where was the house? Where is the board room?) and any notable crew involved.

The episode list should be reformatted into a table and preferably use the episode list template

--Opark 77 (talk) 11:20, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose. Disclosure: I don't live in the UK and I've never seen the show, not even a single episode, American or British.

First, please explain the team membership thing. The images show people in one team but the Challenges section say they are in a different team. I thought this was an error until I deciphered what "In Stealth" and "In Eclipse" on the Weekly results table meant. They switched up teams every week right.

I agree with Opark's point on the lead. I should be summarizing what exists in the article but it introduces new information and jumps to the results before explaining what it is about.

I agree with Opark's point on expanding the format/production section explaining objective, rules, structure, etc. for those of us who just stumbled upon the article. Even information about episodes (running time, how many, appeared weekly, time slot, etc) would be good.

I'm not convinced on Opark's point about using a table for the Challenges section.

Some of the writing should be reviewed:

"filmed in the autumn of 2006 and airing during the spring of 2007" - tense shifts

"before the series began in order to recruit the candidates."

--maclean 09:07, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. 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.