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I've listed this article for peer review because I really like this movie and I want it to be a good article. I'm sort of new to Wikipedia so I'm not sure what to do. I've tried to research it as thoroughly as possible. Thanks, --Architeuthidae (Talk | Contributions) 22:03, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Comments by Ruby2010
[edit]- Since you're sort of new, I'd like to welcome you to Wikipedia! Just by briefly looking at the article, I'd say it needs a reception section (what people thought of it at the time or today), and its production section could be expanded further. I recommend taking a look at other similar articles (like on Japanese films) for basic layout/content ideas. Good luck! Ruby2010 comment! 04:00, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help! This is a really obscure film, and no matter where I looked, I couldn't really find any information on the production than what I have now. However, I will create a reception section later.--Architeuthidae (Talk | Contributions) 21:44, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
- I added a reception section!--Architeuthidae (Talk | Contributions) 23:50, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help! This is a really obscure film, and no matter where I looked, I couldn't really find any information on the production than what I have now. However, I will create a reception section later.--Architeuthidae (Talk | Contributions) 21:44, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
Comments by H1nkles
[edit]I echo Ruby2010's welcome to the project.
- Watch overlinking in the article. See WP:LINK for thoughts on wikilinking. As a rule of thumb words in common English useage like rocket, Earth, lake, and human should not be linked. Also country names do not need to be linked. On the other hand linking the word "object" to UFO is fine as you are specifying what object the context is referring to.
- I made a copyedit to one of the paragraphs in the lead section. My aim was to try and fix the flow and readability of the section. Please review to see if it corretly follows the film's plot.
- Take care with using terms like "speculated". Information in a wikipedia article should not be based on speculation.
- See WP:LEAD. The lead should be a summary of the entire article and touch briefly on every subject raised in the article. Your lead nearly meets this requirement. You need something on the legacy and you would need to add something about reception when this section is written.
- Regarding references be sure you are using a consistent format throughout. Each website reference should have the title, publisher and accessdate.
- You have a nice little article here. Well done and keep up the good work. If you have specific questions about this review please contact me on my talk page as I do not watch review pages. H1nkles (talk) citius altius fortius 16:53, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the help. I will revise it as soon as I can. Unfortunately I have finals and AP exams coming up so it will take me a while to address every issue. But I promise I will address every single error.--Architeuthidae (Talk | Contributions) 23:13, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
- I commend you for work on obscure articles and information. All corners of the project deserve the light of day. The linking has been diminished and you've beefed up the lead. I had a couple more comments:
- I'm not sure Legacy should be a sub-section under Reception. They seem to be mutually exclusive. I would recommend making Legacy its own section.
- "However, the film may have influenced other Japanese science fiction films, notably Gorath, Gamera vs. Guiron and Gamera: Super Monster." I don't like the wording in this sentence. The film may have influenced other Japanese science fiction films. Either it has or it hasn't. Keeping it vague like this doesn't say anything. I haven't reviewed the references for this statement so perhaps they are vague. In which case I would either find firm evidence one way or the other, or leave it out.
- Is there an article title for ref 10?
- If you use a book be sure to put the page number of where you found the information. This helps researchers quickly locate the reference within the book.
- Not to get nit picky but usually book references contain the location of the publisher. Probably not a big deal at WP:GAC but it would be noticed at WP:FAC should you wish to move the article along.
- What is important is if you're using Google Books be sure to put the URL into the reference. That way others can easily link to it.
- Those star fish costumes are classic, I'll be seeing them in my dreams tonight. :)
- That's it for me, well done and best of luck at GAC. H1nkles (talk) citius altius fortius 16:42, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help. It will take me a while to go through and find the page numbers for each book, but I think I can manage it. Also, for ref 10, that was there before I rewrote the article, and I could not find any online sources for the information. I will contact the editor who added that later to see if I can get any more information from that source.--Architeuthidae (Talk | Contributions) 19:16, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Ruhrfisch comments Looking on Google books I found a few more references to the film which might be worth including:
- Dark dreams 2.0: a psychological history of the modern horror film from the ... By Charles Derry compares it to Monster Zero
- Japan's favorite mon-star: the unauthorized biography of "The Big G" By Steve Ryfle says it was made as a response to Godzilla (no Google books preview for me)
- It gets 2 stars in A guide to apocalyptic cinema By Charles P. Mitchell
- And believe it or not in this biography of Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick: a biography By John Baxter
Hope this helps, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 18:10, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
- You did the same thing I did, go to Google Books. Fortunately this is an old film so it did have many references. I believe I have already mentioned the Godzilla response, however. I will be sure to add each of these others into the article as soon as I can.--Architeuthidae (Talk | Contributions) 23:13, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
- The Stanley Kubrick one is kind of useless, but I used the others.--Architeuthidae (Talk | Contributions) 23:28, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
- It is your call, but I was thinking of something like "In his biography of Stanley Kubrick, author John Baxter traces Kubrick's interest in science fiction films, which led to his 2001: A Space Odyssey, to the Japanese Kaiju eiga films of the 1950s, including Warning from Space, with its "nameless two-metre-tall black starfish with a single central eye, who walk en pointe like ballet dancers". Baxter notes that despite their "clumsy model sequences, the films were often well-photographed in colour ... and their dismal dialogue was delivered in well-designed and well-lit sets". Ruhrfisch ><>°° 14:04, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
- I guess I didn't read that far back in the biography. Thanks, by the way, I used it.--Architeuthidae (Talk | Contributions) 14:37, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
- It is your call, but I was thinking of something like "In his biography of Stanley Kubrick, author John Baxter traces Kubrick's interest in science fiction films, which led to his 2001: A Space Odyssey, to the Japanese Kaiju eiga films of the 1950s, including Warning from Space, with its "nameless two-metre-tall black starfish with a single central eye, who walk en pointe like ballet dancers". Baxter notes that despite their "clumsy model sequences, the films were often well-photographed in colour ... and their dismal dialogue was delivered in well-designed and well-lit sets". Ruhrfisch ><>°° 14:04, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
- The Stanley Kubrick one is kind of useless, but I used the others.--Architeuthidae (Talk | Contributions) 23:28, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
- You did the same thing I did, go to Google Books. Fortunately this is an old film so it did have many references. I believe I have already mentioned the Godzilla response, however. I will be sure to add each of these others into the article as soon as I can.--Architeuthidae (Talk | Contributions) 23:13, 27 April 2011 (UTC)