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Good articleAcquainted with the Night (book) has been listed as one of the Language and literature good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
November 23, 2009Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 22, 2009.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that in his book Acquainted with the Night, Dewdney tells of a syndrome in which the victims, almost always Asian men, presumably die of terror while dreaming of something sitting on their chest?

GA Review

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Reviewer: GaryColemanFan (talk) 07:10, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I feel that this article is very close to GA quality, but there are a few things that came up during the review:

Lead:

Content:

  • "The next 12 chapter" -> "The next 12 chapters"?
  • "including," -> ", including"
  • "Street lights" -> "street lights"
  • The brief descriptions of chapters is sufficient to cover the GA requirement for breadth of coverage, but I felt at times that I would like to know a little more. If you plan to continue working on the article after the GA review, this would be a good place to add a bit of information.
    • Done. [2] I agree with you on the last point. It seemed logical to provide a chapter-by-chapter re-cap of the 12 hours/chapters but it resulted in a very limited overview of the subject (some of the wikilinks really help). There is no over-arching narrative to follow, but rather about 50 small essays. Not sure if it would best to do a couple words on each or more in-depth on a few, or some other format. maclean (talk) 18:57, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Style:

  • The phrasing is a little confusing. In the lead, it states that it deals with the 12 hours of the night from 6pm to 5am. Here, it says that it discusses the 12 hours from 6pm to 6am. Although I understand what you're saying, this seems inconsistent and unclear.
  • "to logically move the narrative along" -> "to move the narrative along logically" (split infinitive)
  • "Gisèle Baxter writing in the journal Canadian Literature wrote that" - should probably be commas after Baxter and Literature, and the repetition of writing/wrote could be phrased better (perhaps replacing the second with "stated").

References:

  • A small issue that may just be because of the templates: Some reference use the "Month Day, Year" format, while others use the "Day Month Year" format. If it's possible to fix that, it should be fixed. If not, don't worry about it.

I will place the nomination on hold for one week to allow for these to be addressed or discussed. Any comments can be left here, as this page is on my watchlist. Best wishes, GaryColemanFan (talk) 07:10, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It looks great. As far as further development, perhaps a discussion of recurring ideas (if any) within the chapters could be added. For example, if he discusses two ideas and comes to the same conclusion or realization both time, that could be a good thing to add. Without having read the book, it's hard to say. The breadth of coverage is good for GA, though. Perhaps a peer review would be helpful if you're planning on taking this to FAC. Anyhow, thanks for the quick responses and for providing the diffs to help me see where the changes were made. I am promoting this article. Congratulations! GaryColemanFan (talk) 01:16, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks a lot for your assistance! maclean (talk) 01:43, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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