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Reviewer: Whiteguru (talk · contribs) 03:05, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Starts GA Review. The review will follow the same sections of the Article. Thank you --Whiteguru (talk) 03:05, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
Notability: WP:GNG
Notability: WP:NAF and fiction: Consider Books and Films
Observations
[edit]HTML document size: 170 kB Prose size (including all HTML code): 24 kB References (including all HTML code): 66 kB Wiki text: 36 kB Prose size (text only): 13 kB (2141 words) "readable prose size" References (text only): 7656 B
- It is reasonably well written.
- In the lead, Her works have won various awards; duplicates an earlier sentence. Suggest removal of this part.
- (Biography) after several jobs was hired to work in a The Bookman (drop the "a" )
- (Biography) is a link to maternity leave necessary?
- (Biography) The article is about this author, not her editor. Drop the reference to Kara LaReau.
- (Biography) Afterwards, DiCamillo moved into a house; the trappings of succcess are important, but is this necessary for this article?
- (Writing career and recognition) DiCamillo said she was shocked by the news and "very, very happy."[21] What news? insert (of the award)
- (Writing career and recognition) and ending with Mery Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes (2009) spelling Mery → Mercy
- (Writing career and recognition) DiCamillo was reportedly woken up at 5:30 a.m. with a call telling her the news and said she was stunned by it.[26] is superfluous...
- (Writing career and recognition) "Stories Connect Us".[27]{[29] In both the ← stray curly brace in there
- (Writing career and recognition) In The New York Times the author Kimberly Brubaker Bradley wrote that . Bradley is writing as a reviewer. drop the author.
- (Writing career and recognition) overlinking: I am not inclined to link to Minnesota, nor Tim Walz, however gubernatorial he is.
- (Adaptations) overlinking: drop links to Netflix and Walt Disney Pictures and cameo.
- (Analysis) the link to read between the lines, goes to a 404 and then to archive.org. Repair?
- Reference 46 should say (subscription required)
- Reference 53 should say (registration required)
- All references using the New York Times will have to say (subscription required).
- It is factually accurate and verifiable.
- a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):
- It is broad in its coverage.
- a (major aspects): b (focused):
- Page is "readable prose size"
- Good coverage of this author and her works
- It follows the neutral point of view policy.
- Fair representation without bias:
- NPOV is presented in this article.
- It is stable.
- No edit wars, etc.:
- Page created 7 January 2005
- Page has 1,234 edits by 649 editors
- ClueBot NG has been on the page (both versions) 47 times, indicative of vandalism
- Page size has expanded considerably since 2020
- 90 day page views = 24,337 with a daily average of 268 page views.
- Recent page history indicates puerile vandalism, likely by children (IP addresses) as DiCamillo is a children's author
- Page has a reasonable number of active watchers; vandalism like the above is reverted quickly.
- Else, page is considered stable with steady improvement.
- It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
- a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
- File:2018-us-nationalbookfestival-kate-dicamillo.jpg = Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
- File:Magician's Elephant (signed) (cropped).png = Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.
- File:Kate DiCamillo 9198 1024 (27648278583).jpg = originally posted to Flickr by Kalamazoo Public Library at https://flickr.com/photos/28641332@N03/27648278583 = no known copyright restrictions
- Overall:
- Good coverage of the work and labors of this author
- Some clean-up noted
- The New York Times: repeatedly had to go to archive.org to examine references. Might be worthwhile running the IA bot over the references and see if this sorts the matter for you.
- After minor clean-up, this should go to GA.