Talk:Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: AryKun (talk · contribs) 12:30, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The lead has too many paragraphs for this short an article.
- Fixed.
Link epic poem?
- Linked.
Link Scandinavia?
- Done.
Perhaps some more reception could be incorporated into the lead.
- Added.
"as special subject" → "as a special subject"? Also, gloss for what a "special subject" is?
- Edited and added note.
Should king be capitalized in "king Hroðgar"?
- Done.
Link or gloss for "line number".
- Glossed.
Contents is overly split into too many tiny paragraphs.
- Closed up.
Some of the subheading titles in Reception are a bit unencyclopedic, but not a big issue.
- Noted. "Arthurian grandeur", for instance, is quoted and explained in the text.
I don't see "do immediacy, praising his dragon" in the source supporting the quotation, take it outside of the quotation marks.
- Adjusted quotation. "do immediacy" is a direct quote from the Waldman source, I just checked.
Is the "Hwæt!" necessary in the quotation?
- Yes. It sets the tone of Waldman's piece, as it does indeed of Beowulf itself.
Is the accent on the i in "Tíme passed away" intended?
- Removed the stresses.
The references are all reliable and consistently formatted, and spot-checks on 4 found that they supported the text they were used to cite.
- Noted.
Images need alt text.
- Added.