User talk:BrianDor
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[edit]Hi, BrianDor. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or . —usernamekiran (talk) 14:59, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Analysis
[edit]Lead section: The lead section explains the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for what it is. It talks about its prominence in pop-culture with citations and gives a very brief outline of what it went through and what it is about. Overall well done. there is one sentence that strikes me as strange, however it is not strange enough to change it as I can think of nothing better.
Structure: The structure is well outlined and makes sense. It first goes through the plot of the books/radio drama and then it moves on to talk about where it started from in the background and the original radio series. The route that it takes makes sense with the most important information near the top and going in descending order of time and then going into other factors in the book/movies/radio drama.
Balanced: The page is balanced with no section having significantly more space or information than it needs to have.
Neutral: The writing doesn’t try to get the reader to believe anything. It focuses around fact and backs most of what it says up by reliable sources
Sources: the sources are reliable being different biographies of the person who wrote the book, the books themselves, and the radio scripts being a majority of the things cited. They also cited things such as the movies that were produced articles referencing the change in author on Adam’s death.
Formation:Started November 17th, 2001. It started out very rough with only a few poorly written paragraphs and some poorly hypertexted in links. There was no citations and the prose was terrible. There have a been a ton of people working on this page with quite a few examples of vandalism mixed into the page. There has been a pretty steady few who will update at times then die away to be replaced by others. It was last updated on March 24th 2017 only a few days ago from writing this. The talk page mentions the status of the article and has two sections for things for people to look for but they are getting kind of unnecessary at this point almost to the point of literary criticism and not necessary in an encyclopedia.
Changes: made minor change from the word 'eponym' to the word 'hitchhiker's' to make the writing more simple and less in the need of a dictionary
BrianDor (talk) 15:03, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
Dante's Inferno Source Check
[edit]Reference: All of the facts have a reliable reference whether it is a quotation or a page number to a book there is a link to many of the checkable facts
Relevance: everything mentioned in the Article is relevant. Dante’s Inferno can’t be gone through without some explanation even just in passing so the points that seem to diverge from the topic actually add to it.
Neutrality: The piece does appear neutral in the way that it is only really controversial to critics and literary scholars but I do think that the piece relies too heavily on a single author who is quoted many times.
Source: Most of the references are to the book itself in Italian but then also translated into English. There are also references to notes on the different cantos that explain and guide the reader in the text. There are references to outside works where there is some more investigation done
Representation: As I said earlier there may be an over-reliance on single author in the field but if that is the leading author in the field it makes sense that she would be referenced as much as she is.
Possible Pages
[edit]Possible Ideas: Galactic Greg's, Munchkin, Valpo Velvet, Alumni Hall, Guild/Memorial Hall, creeepy pasta, A Cure for Wellness, The other side of the door, The Boy, Krampus, Blackwell, Seven Realms, groupme,
Who's talking?
I think that either valpo velvet could be in local valpo newspaper as well as in the university press and is a cool local thing that is present enough in our life to be on wikipedia. I could find information from the university and the creator of the store or ice cream chain.
Other places? I have no idea where else to go as I really don't know much about either of these two things besides their names.
links can link ice cream to valpo velvet and the university to both