Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Game of Thrones/archive2

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 31 July 2020 [1].

Game of Thrones

Nominator(s): -- LuK3 (Talk) 20:56, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about the highly popular HBO fantasy drama series that ran from 2011 until 2019. The article was nominated and not promoted back in 2016. After the series finale, the article underwent an extensive update to include critical reception, viewership numbers, piracy issues, and related media. I believe the article meets all of the FA criteria. I appreciate all constructive feedback and suggestions for the article. -- LuK3 (Talk) 20:56, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Heartfox

I've never reviewed a featured article nominee before (so take my comments with a grain of salt I guess), but I just wanted to make a few constructive suggestions if that's okay. I do feel that the "Viewership" section is kind of lacking at the moment. I know the season articles have info in their own viewership sections, but for a highly successful series that ran for eight seasons, two paragraphs seems insufficient. Not that it is even a Good Article, but the viewership section for American Idol, for example, gives about one paragraph for most seasons. I do feel like more research could be done for this section on Game of Thrones.

Is there a specific citation that says "it was considered a ratings success for HBO throughout all eight seasons"? Are there any sources mentioning the high level of 18–49 viewers in the United States or anything about overall DVR viewership patterns? Should something be said about the apparent viewership decline midway through the fifth season? I also think the separation between the gross figures from the HBO press releases and the graph and table showing the TV viewership only should be more clearly noted. Also, I know the colours for each season are based on the posters so I don't think it could be changed, but I just wanted to comment that it was kind of hard for me to delineate on the graph the difference between the seventh and eighth seasons' columns. Heartfox (talk) 23:03, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Heartfox, thank you for the comment. I believe you stated the reason for only two paragraphs for the Viewership section. The specific season articles detail the viewership numbers in detail so only a summary is best. I'm currently researching the DVR viewership and key demographic numbers. Thank you again for your suggestions. -- LuK3 (Talk) 00:15, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

So I did add some material about time shifting views and key demographic viewership. Unfortunately I couldn't find any sources about the season 5 viewership dip, I'll continue to look for any mentions. Thank you again Heartfox. -- LuK3 (Talk) 11:36, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

LuK3 Yeah, that looks better. I like that you included the interesting strong female viewership info. You might want to add a url-status=live to the first two refs, though :) Heartfox (talk) 19:10, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The references should be formatted correctly now. -- LuK3 (Talk) 20:20, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

Some of the captions don't appear to be cited in the text - eg Ballintoy

Added inline citation for the captions. -- LuK3 (Talk) 12:37, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the images would benefit from being scaled up, but avoid sandwiching in Fandom

I changed some upright parameters and removed the wax figure image from the Fandom section due to sandwiching. -- LuK3 (Talk) 12:37, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

File:Game_of_Thrones_title_card.jpg: source link no longer works

Fixed. -- LuK3 (Talk) 12:37, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

File:Game_of_Thrones_Oslo_exhibition_2014_-_Ygritte,_Jon_and_Tormund_costumes.jpg and File:Game_of_Thrones_Oslo_exhibition_2014_-_Royal_court_costumes.jpg and File:Game_of_Thrones_Oslo_exhibition_2014_-_Brienne_and_Jaime_costumes.jpg: see COM:COSTUME. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:06, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I had to remove the three costume images because I couldn't confirm that the costumes were released under a free license. I believe I addressed all of the previous image review notes Nikkimaria. -- LuK3 (Talk) 12:37, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Coord note

Hi, kudos for taking on an article on such a popular show... I'm surprised it hasn't generated more interest but with relatively little commentary after three weeks it looks like gaining consensus to promote is a very long way off, so I'm going to archive it. Given the few reviews I'm not averse to waiving the usual two-week wait before a re-nom, but I wonder if another go at PR and actively seeking possible reviewers there, might not be a better option than diving straight into a another nom here... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 14:15, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose (talk) 14:16, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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