Talk:Licence to Kill/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Grapple X (talk · contribs · count) 13:28, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

Ew, Dalton. If it's not View to a Kill, I'm not sure if I care... :P

Is it reasonably well written?
A. Prose quality:
Just minor fixes.
"the Eon Productions James Bond series" -> Could be wrong, but I think "James Bond" should be italicised here as a title. If it's not commonly italicised then don't worry about it.
"Japanese Rōnin tales." -> "rōnin" is not a proper noun, use a lower case r.
"the MI6" -> The organisation is just referred to as "MI6", no "the". Granted, I've not seen the films, if it's called "the MI6" in dialogue then keep it that way, but if it's ever mentioned in the news here it's without any "the".
You're using spaced em dashes as parentheticals here ("word — word"). You're using European spellings ("colour", "armourer") so you might want to use spaced en dashes ("word – word"), which see use in British typography, or you could use unspaced em dashes ("word—word"), which are a bit more universal, but spaced em dashes should be avoided.
Is the "the" in "The Bahamas" capitalised? As I understood it, it's not capitalised in "Commonwealth of the Bahamas" but I don't know if it is or not when using the shorter name. Don't worry about changing it, as I'm mostly just curious.
You don't actually explain who Della is in the plot. I know it's not vital but I had to scroll down to the cast section to find out. A quick aside when she's first mentioned wouldn't hurt.
"Sanchez's scientists can dissolve cocaine in gasoline" -> I'd lose the wikilink in "dissolve", as it makes a reader assume at first that "dissolve cocaine" might link to a specialist article. I'd also use "petrol" instead of "gasoline" since you've already used British spelling in the article. Same goes for the later mention of "trucks" (use "lorries").
"Robert Davi suggested the line "Loyalty is more important than money", which he felt was fitting to the character of Franz Sanchez, whose actions were noticed by Davi to be all regarding betrayal and retaliation." -> Lower case L for "loyalty", and change "to be all regarding betrayal" to "to be concerned with betrayal".
"Sixteen 18 wheeler trucks were used" -> The word and numeral mix seems off here. Try "Sixteen eighteen-wheeler" instead.
"Initially Vic Flick, who had played lead guitar on Norman's original 007 theme" -> Norman who?
"Corliss also found Dalton "misused" in the film, adding that "for every plausible reason, he looks as bored in his second Bond film as Sean Connery did in his sixth"" -> Should that be "found Dalton was "misused" in the film"?
"among the reviewers listed in "Top Critics" the score is 50% out of 8 reviews." -> "out of eight reviews"

B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists:
MOS is fine.
Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
A. References to sources:

B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:

C. No original research:
Citations are grand, used well and nothing is left unsupported.
Is it broad in its coverage?
A. Major aspects:

B. Focused:
Scope is good, not too wide or narrow.
Is it neutral?
Fair representation without bias:
Article is neutral.
Is it stable?
No edit wars, etc:
History seems stable and uncontroversial.
Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:

B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
Images are tagged with solid rationales. However, I'm not entirely sure we actually need File:LicenceToKillNovel.jpg. The rationale is very solid but since there's not very much written on the subject I don't really think it's that necessary.
Overall:
Pass or Fail:
A very solid article that just needs a few polishes to pass. The fixes mentioned in the 1A section above should really be all that needs to be addressed, so I'm putting this on hold for now. GRAPPLE X 13:28, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed those (also, apparently it's capitalized), anything else? igordebraga ≠ 23:25, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to me. Going to pass it now. Well done! GRAPPLE X 23:39, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]