Wikipedia:Peer review/Rainbow Chip/archive1

Rainbow Chip

I've listed this article for peer review because I am unsure about the article and whether it is written well and neutral, but also if it is broad enough in coverage. I have some concerns regarding the fact I was unable to add any of the images I had regarding the product and its packaging, nutritional value and ingredients list.

Thanks, Nnshodan16 (talk) 13:08, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Comments by Geckop

Nnshodan16, I'm not going to fully review the article, but there are a few things I'd like to say:

• First and foremost, Wikipedia's rules permit only articles about "notable" subjects to exist. You can read the rules regarding notability here. In general, the article should have several reliable sources in which the subject is covered in detail that are independent of the subject. The third and the fifth ones satisfy these requirements, so it should be alright.
• The article relies heavily on primary sources that are not independent of the subject. This is a big problem, though I'm not sure what should be done about it. Can you perhaps use the Consumerist article more?
• The Tori Avey reference doesn't seem relevant to this article.
• The Walmart reference isn't reliable and the sentence that precedes it isn't encyclopedic.
• The Consumerist reference doesn't validate any part of the sentence that precedes it. In fact, it says that Rainbow Chips look differently ("much cooler") from the alternative.
• The spaces before the footnotes following the first sentences of the lead section and the general history section should be deleted.
• The YouTube video in the sixth reference is currently inaccessible.
• I assume the eighth reference (LinkedIn) establishes that Melissa Guarnaccia is a spokesperson of Betty Crocker (I can't access it as I don't have a LinkedIn account). However, she spoke in her capacity as marketing manager and seemingly described the company's official position, so I don't think the additional source is needed to describe her as a company spokesperson.
• Section headings should be in sentence case.
• in the consumer interaction section, the dates use different formats, neither of which is consistent with the rest of Wikipedia. Change them to May 22 and June 11.
• "Consumer response" isn't a good name for a section about the discontinuation of the product. Given that it hasn't even been mentioned before, "discontinuation" might be a good name for this section even though it mostly covers the consumer responses to the said discontinuation.
• I'm not sure I like all of the other section names either (especially "resurrection"). Do you have any alternative ideas for names for any of them?
• The ingredients/nutritional value section is entirely unencyclopedic. I think it does the article more harm than good.
• You should always refer to decades as "the 1980s" rather than "the 80's".
• You should always use straight quotation marks and apostrophes. Replace all (“) and (”) marks with (") (say, “Bring back Rainbow Chip Frosting” should become "Bring back Rainbow Chip Frosting") and all (’) marks with (') (say, Johnson’s should become Johnson's).
• The category you have added to the article is inappropriate as it is a category of lists rather than ordinary articles. I think this article should be in category:General Mills brands instead.

Note that this is not a thorough review despite its length, and the article will still need work after all of this. As for the issues you've had with adding pictures, could you please describe them? Note that the copyright status of images taken from the web may (and usually does) prohibit Wikipedia from using them. You'd have to take a picture of the product yourself, and the packaging itself may have copyright restrictions, so it'd have to be a picture of the product itself rather than the packaging. If you'd like to use a picture from the website of Betty Crocker or General Mills (whether of the packaging or the product itself), I suppose asking them to release it under an appropriate Creative Commons license can't hurt.

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I hope I've been of help! Geckop (talk) 00:09, 16 November 2018 (UTC)