Talk:Nocturne (comics)

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Nocturne (comics) was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Reviewed version: June 14, 2007

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[edit] Pass

Well, its been awhile since reviewing my last good article candidate. I think this article is good (its B-class). I also like the referencing. I like how the article is set up as most Marvel articles first. However, this article needs more pictures of the comic book. It is right to have the article in present tense as she is in different states depending on what comic. The article needs a navigation box to help introduce the article. The external link is fine especially if that's all you could/can find. Also I would change this sentence When she is twenty years old, Nocturne is taken by the Timebroker and told she had become "unhinged from time" to At twenty years old. Nice that the article goes in order of the biography box. Alright thats all.

Showmanship is the key 00:46, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA Nomination Result

The above review was not thorough and neither was the article removed from the good article candidates list. I'm doing a more detailed review here and I'm afraid the result is that the article has failed the good article criteria. The good article standard can only be as accurate as the most lenient reviewer.

Here is how the article compares to the good article criteria:

GA review (see here for criteria)
  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (MoS):
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects): b (focused):
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    a (fair representation): b (all significant views):
  5. It is stable.
  6. It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.
    a (tagged and captioned): b (lack of images does not in itself exclude GA): c (non-free images have fair use rationales):
  7. Overall:
    a Pass/Fail:


More specifically:

  • The article uses comic books as primary sources of reference. This is better than other comic book related articles that fail to even cite the comics but the references cannot all just come from comic books. This qualifies it to fail under wikipedia's policy of original research. This basically means that the article is just repeating the information obtained from reading the comic books, which tantamounts to original research. The article should provide more information than what the comic books provide and should give a reader the information about the character that he would not be able to obtain from the comic books.
  • The article needs to be more focused. Batman has a significantly long fictional biography but not all the information is included in the character's article.
  • Article needs to be copyedited. It is fairly well-written but for a GA status, it needs to be much better. Request help from Wikipedia:Cleanup taskforce or from other editors.

Keep up the good work. Please review Silver Surfer on the GA candidates page. The article for that character failed about four GA nominations so far and this is the fifth. Zuracech lordum 11:15, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External link suggestion

uncannyxmen.net has spotlights on characters and I've noticed that a link to these spotlights is added to the external links of all other characters. Talia has a spotlight on this site as of yesterday, I'd add the link myself but i don't know how. 195.189.142.253 00:07, 14 September 2007 (UTC)asief

Thanks for the suggestion! It has been added. Freak104 02:13, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Days of Future Present?

Should that even be included in this article? Blue is a daughter of Nightcrawler from an alternate reality, but not Nocturne. Should that section stay, or should it go? 66.189.137.113 21:47, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Its a tricky one - if I understand things correctly Blue is a (future) daughter of the Earth-616 Nightcrawler? If they are from another Earth then she'd still count as being an alternate version. It is a close call but it is a reasonable enough connection. It'd be worth including in the Nightcrawler entry but as far as I can tell seems OK to be here. The only way to really exclude it is if there was a statement saying Blue isn't an alternate version or if it turns out they are sisters. (Emperor 22:00, 4 October 2007 (UTC))
So Blue is a potential daughter of 616-Nightcrawler, and Nocturne is an actual daughter of an alternate-Nightcrawler. I think that is enough to consider them alternate versions of each other. Or at least alternate-reality sisters. 144.92.58.224 14:35, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comics Project Improvement Drive

OK let's get the final polish on this and take it up to GA. So what is needed?

Looking through the immediate problem (and instant fail) is that the second image needs a FUR.

What I'd also like to see is something from the creators on this - interviews possibly when they joined Excalibur? Something that would flesh things out beyond primary sources.

Anything else? (Emperor 13:15, 4 October 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Additional images

Suggestions above recommend more images and that Exiles one is good and I think a group shot of the New Excalibur team would be a good idea too. That should cover the main image needs. (Emperor 13:15, 4 October 2007 (UTC))

I also think some images of her during the Brotherhood/X-Men time would be good. Maybe the cover from Uncanny X-Men that she is on, her as an X-Baby, or the scene where she gets sucked into Xorn's head. 144.92.58.224 17:40, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:XMEN 05252005 0024.jpg

Image:XMEN 05252005 0024.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:40, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale has now been provided by 66.109.248.114. -Freak104 (talk) 15:05, 17 January 2008 (UTC)