Talk:The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Review: September 2, 2021. (Reviewed version).

A fact from The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 August 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy contains an idiosyncratic selection of topics, from "Aliens in Space" to "Rats and Mice"?

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by The C of E (talk) 07:31, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy contains an idiosyncratic selection of topics, from "Aliens in Space" to "Rats and Mice"? Source: https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=00145483&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA144193038&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Black Death in Poland
Comment: This hook should be more interesting that the boring, matter-of-fact comments that most reviewers found it not comprehensive enough or overpriced... --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:29, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Created by Piotrus (talk). Self-nominated at 12:29, 22 July 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article was recently created and meets requirements for length and sourcing. Hook is interesting, assuming good faith on paywalled sources which require a subscription. No apparent copyvio or neutrality issues. Only issue is that QPQ appears to be pending, once that review is finished this will be ready for approval. BuySomeApples (talk) 20:59, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy ping for @Piotrus: this nom still needs a qpq and then it will be ready for the front page. BuySomeApples (talk) 04:03, 5 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

BuySomeApples, QPQ was done a while back, I listed it in the op already (Template:Did you know nominations/Black Death in Poland). Being in progress, AFAIK, shouldn't have caused any issues back then, and it was finished a while ago anyway (you didn't check before pinging me again? Would have saved us all some time :P). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:08, 5 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Piotrus: I guess I could say the same to you, since you could have pinged me or responded to my message on your talk page 2 weeks ago but oh well. Thanks for the update anyway. This looks good enough to pass now, so I'll approve the nom. Good work! BuySomeApples (talk) 06:44, 5 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 20:56, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

"It was edited by Gary Westfahl. The work consists" merge, "It was edited by Gary Westfahl and consists"
"the last volume" third.
"considered defining for the two relevant genres" which two?
"reviewers finding this to be a commendable" this? Do you mean "the encyclopedia" perhaps?
"overpriced" you didn't even mention how expensive it was.
"The scope of the work..." The scope of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy....
"written by over a hundred different" more than.
"expected" who was doing the "expectation"?
"its release, already in 2005" why "already"?
"He finds" -> He found.
"observes" observed. Be consistent with tense. Fix this throughout.
"reviewing this work" re-assert the name of the "work".
"noted that it is too limited" well, noted seems definitive. I would say that's subjective so perhaps " suggested that it....
"He nonetheless concludes..." followed by "He concludes that ..." how many times can he "conclude"??
"He observed that due to trying to cover both science fiction" as a result of rather than due to.
"quite impressive", also he finds`" although would make more sense than also.
"book is overpriced (at $349.95) and" ah, one review said it was over-priced? Is that really grounds for it to be considered, in general, over-priced?
"introduce topics - themes, works" en-dash.
"Achebe) - that seem" ditto.
"entries.[3][5][2][1]" order.
"List of authors and topics" describe this ext link in more detail.

That's all I have. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 19:03, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man Thank you for the review. Fixed, mostly. See below for the exceptions/comments:

Re: ""written by over a hundred different" more than." - hmmm, or maybe less than a hundred? See https://www.sfsite.com/gary/ww-themes01.htm . Maybe change to dozens?

Re: "expected" who was doing the "expectation"? - reviewers, but it seems common sense to me (not editorializing).

Re: "book is overpriced (at $349.95) and" ah, one review said it was over-priced? Is that really grounds for it to be considered, in general, over-priced? the previous reviewer (O'Sullivan) also commented on this, as quoted ("hefty price"). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:42, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, change the "over a hundred" to dozens, and it's all good. Nothing to stop me promoting now. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 20:10, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]