Talk:The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya/GAR 1

GA Status and Article Issues

I've tagged this article for clean up and reference improvement. The formatting needs some serious clean up to comply with the Anime and Manga MoS. The infoxbox is not even following the basic infobox instructions and usage guidelines properly. Several statements within the article are either unreferenced or referenced with dead links. Some of the other references are of questionable reliability, ~~and I seriously hope that reference #35 is not the illegal copyright infringing video link that is appears to be~~ (explained below). There is also some rather non-neutral language a copyediting is needed to cut down on the excessive effusive phrasing. The disambig seems off, as it links to the novel list, while the prose links to Haruhi Suzumiya (light novels). These kinds of issues are acceptable in a GA level article. If the article is not brought back up the required GA criteria within the next two weeks, it will be delisted. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 18:42, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reference #35 is a legitimate video that was part of Bandai's advertisement campaign. —TangentCube, Dialogues 15:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but it is it the video hosted on their site, or someone's copy of that video? The page wouldn't load for me when I checked it yesterday. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 16:17, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bandai posted it themselves. One of their videos was mistaken for a fansub, too. —TangentCube, Dialogues 16:27, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good to know :) I know some places do official videos on YouTube as well, just wanted to be sure there when I'd never heard of that particular video site. Struck that from the list...now just everything else to deal with :P-- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 16:40, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As per my earlier message two weeks ago, this article has been delisted as a GA. No significant work was done to address the issues noted, nor discussion undertaken to show an effort would be made. The article has unreferenced statements, dead links for references, and uses some non-reliable sources (including several fansites). This fails GA criteria #2. The article does not follow the anime and manga MoS properly, nor is the infobox used properly. The prose also needs some work. This fails GA criteria #1. It also has several statements in the lead which are referenced in the lead instead of being referenced and expanded upon in the article. This also fails #1 as it violates both WP:LEAD and the anime and manga MoS. When these issues are taken care of, I highly recommend a peer review and then renominating for GA. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 17:06, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]