Talk:Ben Thompson (actor)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Lampman (talk) 18:50, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article was well referenced and complied with the MOS. It was also reasonably well written, though I did some copy-editing here and there. The problem was the wealth of information amounting to trivia. First of all, there were far too many quotes by the subject himself, not all of them adding significant information. Secondly, there was too much information on the CS character, which is not the subject of the article (the character in fact has his own page). Finally, the last section on his music is too detailed. He has no independent notability as a musician, as far as I can see, so this amounts to little more than a hobby. Therefore I shortened the section and renamed it "Private life and interests".

This has reduced the article significantly in size, but I think this is justifiable since there is actually very little to say about the subject at the time. I believe in its current state it qualifies as a GA. However, care should be taken to keep the article under strict surveillance, seeing how the subject is a young actor at the start of his career. Articles like this one have a nasty habit of descending into useless collections of unsourced trivia and rumours, in which case it would have to be reassessed. Lampman (talk) 22:52, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]