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Reviewer: WesleyDodds ( talk · contribs) 06:03, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
I'm going to be reviewing this. Right off the bat I'm seeing some major issues. Details to follow.
I'm going to have to fail this. There are large unreferenced sections (note the "Overview", the second paragraph of "Mark I Daleks", and the last paragraph of "Mark II Daleks", for starters), huge reliance on in-universe fiction (episodes, books, etc.) for sourcing, not to mention the Dalek Autopsy and Dalek6388 websites, which are fansites and thus are not considered a reliable source. Reference formatting is erratic, too: date formatting is both of the "10 March 1973" and "1973-04-07" variety. More real-world information about the creation and propagation of these character variants is required. The article needs to be completely overhauled to adhere to Wikipedia's guidelines regarding writing about fiction, as well as dispense with all the sourcing to fansites, before it can pass GAN. WesleyDodds ( talk) 08:48, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
I think the article should be re-ordered. It skips eras all over the place, dealing with 1970s Daleks and then jumping to more recent Daleks. I haven't watched all of these older stories, and I don't have any reference books, so I can't do it myself; however, someone with more knowledge must do an overhaul. 76.18.4.243 ( talk) 19:50, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
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In the section General design/Casing, it should be mentioned that Dalekanium is also referred to in Day of the Daleks (1972). Malcolmlucascollins ( talk) 03:38, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi, could we please let the system work as intended? Both bots and editors need to know when dates were audited. Chaos would ensue if there were no system to show when that process happened. Thanks, Dawnseeker2000 15:02, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
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Reviewer: WesleyDodds ( talk · contribs) 06:03, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
I'm going to be reviewing this. Right off the bat I'm seeing some major issues. Details to follow.
I'm going to have to fail this. There are large unreferenced sections (note the "Overview", the second paragraph of "Mark I Daleks", and the last paragraph of "Mark II Daleks", for starters), huge reliance on in-universe fiction (episodes, books, etc.) for sourcing, not to mention the Dalek Autopsy and Dalek6388 websites, which are fansites and thus are not considered a reliable source. Reference formatting is erratic, too: date formatting is both of the "10 March 1973" and "1973-04-07" variety. More real-world information about the creation and propagation of these character variants is required. The article needs to be completely overhauled to adhere to Wikipedia's guidelines regarding writing about fiction, as well as dispense with all the sourcing to fansites, before it can pass GAN. WesleyDodds ( talk) 08:48, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
I think the article should be re-ordered. It skips eras all over the place, dealing with 1970s Daleks and then jumping to more recent Daleks. I haven't watched all of these older stories, and I don't have any reference books, so I can't do it myself; however, someone with more knowledge must do an overhaul. 76.18.4.243 ( talk) 19:50, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
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In the section General design/Casing, it should be mentioned that Dalekanium is also referred to in Day of the Daleks (1972). Malcolmlucascollins ( talk) 03:38, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi, could we please let the system work as intended? Both bots and editors need to know when dates were audited. Chaos would ensue if there were no system to show when that process happened. Thanks, Dawnseeker2000 15:02, 8 November 2020 (UTC)