Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Miss Foozie
Hello, everyone, I created this entire article today myself. I hope to eventually have it as a featured article. Thank you for your feedback! Taric25 (talk) 22:15, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
- Comments by gbern3
Lead
- The first sentence threw me off. I thought you were trying to say that Miss Foozie was a cartoon character/actor from the play Chicago. I think it would be helpful if you used a different term than "character". Technically "character" is not accurate because Miss Foozie is not acting in a novel, play, or a film like the definition suggest (I got the definition for "character" from the character article). I think the quoted terms you used in the second and third sentence, 'impersonator', 'entertainer' are better descriptions. Please change it.
- Who is "her portrayer"? Please explain what this means.
Infobox
- Maybe it's just me but I really don't think it's necessary to state that Miss Foozie is a human.
Origin
- This entire section is a WP:COPYVIOlation because, although cited, it's not in quotation marks and was copied verbatim from the website. You should really remove this section or fundamentally rewrite it. Even if it wasn't copied, I would still recommend it be rewritten because of the WP:TONE. It sounds casual, like I'm reading a blog post and not an article from an encyclopedia.
- Also, some details don't need to mentioned. For example, the sentence When Miss Foozie was a little boy, he liked other people and had lots of friends in school is not encyclopedic. Everybody goes to school, it's illegal not to, and most people like other people and have friends.
Career
- Please fix this sentence. It is very long and should probably be split into two or three sentences. It's also had to understand. --> In April 2007, Miss Foozie told Chicago magazine her first paid gig was the weekly stage show “Miss Foozie and Her Floozies” at age 37 for US$30 per show, however, Chicago published he was 48 at this time, possibly mistakenly, since Miss Foozie’s first gig was indeed at age 37, and before his 37th birthday on April 6, 1997, Miss Foozie did not exist.
- Also, WP:SPECULATION is looked down upon and should be avoided. If you're not sure of his age, you should probably leave guesses out of the article.
Films
- The Sister Mary portion of this section also needs to be removed or rewritten because it is also a WP:COPYVIO since it comes from this website
Publications
- Overall, I really liked how you put this section, for the most part, in chronological order.
- Please replace some of the "she"s with "Miss Foozie". The words "Miss Foozie" are not anywhere in this section except for in the quote at the end on the section. Speaking of that quote...
- On August 24, 2007, Photographer Mia Algotti featured “Miss Foozie of Cocktail[, a Boystown bar,] encourages the crowd to try their hand at the dunking booth during North Halsted Market Days Saturday afternoon. needs a citation because it's a quote. Be careful about copyright.
- In general, this section needs some good copy-editing. I can see many grammar errors. Here are two examples:
- On August 24, 2007, Photographer Mia Algotti featured “Miss Foozie of Cocktail[, a Boystown bar,] encourages the crowd to try their hand at the dunking booth during North Halsted Market Days Saturday afternoon.” The photo showed her in front of a dunk tank seating a twink in Skyline, which was a publication of Pioneer Press, a division of Sun-Times Media Group.[34] Since Mia Algotti doesn't have a Wikipedia article, since the photo she took does not appear in the article on Miss Foozie, and since you don't have a citation for that quote then it doesn't make sense to mention the photographer's name, the caption in the article, or the quote especially since it's another WP:COPYVIO. Also, the wording "seating a twink in Skyline" sounds weird. It sounds like this person is being told to sit down in a skyscraper (I'm not being sarcastic, that's really how I interpreted it when I first saw it, then I read the part about Pioneer Press). One more thing: "twink" sounds derogatory. Perhaps it's just me that feels that way but I think it would be better if you put "young gay man" instead. Suggestion: On August 24, 2007, a photograph appeared in Skyline newspaper showing Miss Foozie escorting a young gay man to a dunk tank during Chicago's annual North Halsted Market Days festival.
- She made the cover of HOTT Magazine, distributed in Gay Friendly establishments throughout Southeastern and Western Michigan, Sarnia and Windsor, Ontario, Northern Ohio, Indiana and Chicago, for their November 12–25, 2009 issue.[7][15] It's not necessary to capitalize "Gay Friendly". Suggestion: She made the November 12–25, 2009 cover of HOTT Magazine, a publication distributed in gay friendly establishments in the Midwestern United States and parts of Ontario.
You've really been waiting a long time for a review so I hope my comments are helpful to you. //Gbern3 (talk) 13:37, 20 July 2011 (UTC)