The Apprentice (British TV series) series 1 was a Media and drama good articles nominee, but did not meet the
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Hi Fritzpoll, I've cleaned up the tasks, and improved formatting in line with all the other series. I've also checked and corrected where required, the appropriate grammar. δ²(
Talk)17:43, 4 May 2008 (UTC)reply
Move?
A little move, but would it be better if the title was "The Apprentice (UK Series 1)", as many others use numbers. --
AxG@►talk20:54, 9 July 2007 (UTC)reply
They previously were numbered as you describe, however we came to a consensus that the series numbers should be consistent, using the spelt format. When we had the drive on the main Apprentice article, everything was standardised to pass GA - this being one of them. Though if you wanted to raise the issue, the talk page on the main article gets a lot more traffic :)
Seaserpent8500:33, 10 July 2007 (UTC)reply
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Of course this doesn't actually constitute an "actual" GA review, however I thought I'd browse through and bring up the following suggestions to hopefully get the article up to a standard where I would pass it had I not been reviewing it for GA (ie. had I not been involved in the creation of the article).
The main issue here is a lack of sources - if possible, don't just use the actual episodes as sources. Have a look on news websites etc. for synopses and reviews of the episodes, they give the reader something to actually refer to.
Very choppy - would benefit well from a copyedit to increase the flow and readability of the "Challenges" sections.
Manual of Style
Nothing too major - it's easy to sort this out once the article is closer to being nominated. There is information in the lead which isn't found elsewhere in the article - this also can be sorted out later down the line.
Consistency
There are a few key issues here:
Selective "team re-shuffles" included - either include all of them or none, I'd question their inclusion.
Task outlines need to give a clear indication of what consitutes a win - eg. "The team that makes the most profit wins"
No problems, the one image in the article has a valid Fair Use Rationale.
I'm really surprised to have found that this was nominated for GA Review - it lacks sufficient citations. These are probably going to be the hardest things to find, especially for any kind of critical reception section. This will take a fair bit of searching. Just about all we pass is stability :) But on that, there is a foundation to build upon. Good review SeaSerpent85 - almost inspires me to go back to GA reviewing (did quite a bit of it a while back)
Fritzpoll (
talk)
03:16, 19 May 2008 (UTC)reply
I apologise, this is all my fault! I guess I had an initial look a the criteria, thought they were similar to articles to Season Three, and put them up for GA like you would send your car for an MOT. Well, it's just failed that and now I know why. But what I am struggling with is how we will get it to have enough citations? Apologies again for my premature nomination. Many thanks, δ²(
Talk)17:23, 19 May 2008 (UTC)reply
nothing to apologise for! :-) You should have seen the first article I nominated for GA - it *still* isn't a GA! Citations are going to be a problem - online newspaper archives, perhaps? Can't remember how much coverage Series One got...?
Fritzpoll (
talk)
17:53, 19 May 2008 (UTC)reply
I'll start taking a look at that soon. My talk page is currently filled with bot discussions and some other stuff - but I will take a look at this during my lunchbreak tomorrow!
Fritzpoll (
talk)
22:15, 19 May 2008 (UTC)reply
Unsourced negative material
There is a unanimous consensus to delete the unsourced negative material, which has been done
here.
Cunard (
talk) 05:23, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
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