Talk:Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster/GA2

GA Review

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Reviewer: Thebiguglyalien (talk · contribs) 15:51, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

I'll get a review posted in the next few days. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 15:51, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

After looking over this article, I don't believe that the issues of the previous nomination have been addressed. The nominator (who is not the primary author or the nominator of GA1) made only superficial edits to the article before renominating it. Furthermore, there appear to be significant sourcing issues: plagiarism appears in the article where content from sources is lifted almost directly and presented as the work of Wikipedia editors. There are also points where citations don't appear to support everything that precedes them. The items listed below are just examples; further work will be needed after they are fixed. Eiga-Kevin2, I'm going to end this review now, and I suggest you familiarize yourself with the good article instructions and good article criteria before making further nominations. It's important to make sure that you have comprehensively gone through an article before nominating. Most of the time, this means being the primary author. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 01:28, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Well-written

Prose:

• resulting in them losing their abilities with the exception of predictions. – Rewrite this so it reads better and it's clearer what it means.
• Continental boasted to Variety – "Boasted" is probably too strong of a word. I see that it was lifted directly from the source.
• In a contemporary review of a double-bill between this film and Harum Scarum... – This is a long run-on sentence. Sentences like this appear throughout the article, where it's hard to tell when one idea ends and the next begins.

Verifiable with no original research

Spot checks:

• Ryfle & Godziszewski (2017): Checked all nine uses. All are good except two:
  • The film became the fourth highest-grossing film of the 1964–1965 season in Japan – Watch for close paraphrasing.
  • Honda felt "uncomfortable"... – This is cited to p. 215, but much of the info is on 214.
• Ryfle (1998): Checked all 12 uses.
  • Months after the film's Japanese release, the film was acquired by Walter Reade-Sterling, Inc., with plans to distribute the film in the United States through their subsidiary, Continental Distributing. – Is this supposed to be connected to this citation?
  • The dubbing of the American version was supervised by Joseph Belucci and runs at 85 minutes. – It's not clear which page supports which statement.
  • who spent hours hunched over inside the costume, holding onto a crossbar for support – This entire sentence is ripped almost word-for-word from the source.
  • It took longer to film the Ghidorah scenes because – Another near-exact copy.
  • Still under contract by Toho, Haruo Nakajima was assigned to reprise his role as Godzilla, having already performed the strenuous suitmation performance for the first four Godzilla films. – This entire paragraph includes a bunch of information that is not supported by the source.

Broad in its coverage

Covers plot, cast, production, release, and reception. There is very little coverage of the film's themes or of any significant literary analysis.

Neutral

No apparent neutrality issues.

Stable

No recent disputes in the history or on the talk page.

Illustrated

The film poster is under copyright in the United States and should probably have a non-free use rationale, as Wikipedia's servers are hosted in the United States.

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