Talk:Kate Howard

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[edit] General comments about the article

The reference list on this article is unnecessary and completely out of hand. This is a fictional character on a soap and it looks like you are trying to prove the person really exists. It is out of uniformity with the rest of the soap character articles and contains information that in general is not contained on any other character page. Even the controversial Luke Spencer doesn't have the references this article does and he's a classified rapist. For a character so new, the article is blinding with unnecessary information. If I was looking for basic information, which is what we try and provide, I'd head somewhere else after encountering this. Project goal is uniformity. This is an island unto itself. IrishLass 18:47, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

As an outside observer who formally did a lot of work with the Good Articles project, I have to disagree with some of the assessments in the above comment. The Luke Spencer article is very poorly unreferenced and would not hold it up as a comparison article. Regardless if the article is about a fictional character or a species of trees, it still has to confirm to the basic wikipedia policies of WP:V and WP:OR. In fact, I would say it is more pressing for an article about a fictional character to be well referenced since it is so easy to insert OR "I saw it on the show" type claims into the article. As for some constructive criticism, I would try to limit the number of "direct quotes" used in the article for ease of readability. Try to find ways to more subtly incorporate some of those thoughts into the prose of the text. But overall this is one of the better soap character articles in the Wikipedia. Agne^Cheese/^Wine 21:41, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

PS: I should include the disclaimer that I have worked with Charleen on wine related articles in the past but my assessment of this article is purely based on my own POV from my GA experience which included some reviews of fictional character articles. Agne^Cheese/^Wine 21:44, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks a lot Agne, I am actually working on incorporating the quotes in the article. I just wanted to put them in one place prior to editing. The comments were helpful.--Charleenmerced ^Talk 21:51, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

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