Talk:Ben Stiller/GA1

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GA Reassessment

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As part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles' Project quality task force ("GA Sweeps"), all old good articles are being re-reviewed to ensure that they meet current good article criteria (as detailed at WP:WIAGA.) I have determined that this article needs work to meet current criteria, outlined below:

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- "His sister, actress Amy Stiller, has made appearances in many of his productions, including The Ben Stiller Show as the Bride of Frankenstein, Reality Bites as a psychic phone operator, and most recently, Tropic Thunder as a script supervisor."
  Reworded, and sourced. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:57, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- "In the meantime, he also had a bit part in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun."
  Sourced. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:57, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- "He then put together Elvis Stories, a short film about a fictitious tabloid focused on recent sightings of Elvis Presley. The film starred friends and co-stars John Cusack, Jeremy Piven, Mike Myers, Andy Dick, and Jeff Kahn. The film was considered a success, and led him to develop another film entitled Back to Brooklyn for MTV."
  Sourced. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:57, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Most of "The Ben Stiller Show" subsection
  Difficult to find any sources pertaining to first version of show, so cut back on most of the content. Sourced the section. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:57, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- He joined his parents in the family film Heavyweights, in which he played two roles, and then had a brief uncredited role in Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore.
  Sourced. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:57, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- The film was produced by Danny DeVito (who later directed Stiller's 2003 film Duplex and produced the 2004 film Along Came Polly). Stiller acted in the film, which was praised by some critics. (some critics? Who?)
  Reworded and sourced. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:57, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Most of "Comedy career" subsection
  Still working on this, should finish tomorrow. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:57, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  Added additional sourcing. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:21, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- OR?: He has appeared the most with Owen Wilson, in ten films including: The Cable Guy (1996), Permanent Midnight (1998), Heat Vision and Jack (1999 television pilot), Meet the Parents (2000), Zoolander (2001), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Starsky & Hutch (2004), Meet the Fockers (2004), Night at the Museum (2006), and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009). Of the 35 primary films that are considered Frat Pack films, Stiller has been involved with 20, in some capacity. He is also the only member of this group to have appeared in a Brat Pack film (Fresh Horses).
  Added additional sources. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:57, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- "Music videos" subsection
  I changed the section into a table to match his film/television roles. A lot of the information went into too much detail as it was. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:57, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
One or two-sentence groupings aren't true paragraphs and need to be combined, cut, or expanded.
Merged a few, will check tomorrow to see if there are any more. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:57, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Believe I caught all of them. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:21, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am putting the article on hold for one week. Keep me appraised of progress on this page. Thanks, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 23:47, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, it looks much better, good enough to retain GA class. Good work, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 13:51, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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