The first sentence is kinda a mouthful; I feel like the part about it being based on Marvel Comics characters should either be split into a separate sentence or simplified
... and is the culmination of a series of interconnected shows from Marvel and Netflix. I understand what this means since I know how the MCU works, but to a general audience this could be read as saying it's the literal end of the series.
The limited series stars... "limited" is unnecessary
Hijiri88's comment below does make some sense, I just wanted to hear your thoughts first
A blind pro-bono lawyer in Hell's Kitchen, with his remaining senses enhanced, who is secretly a vigilante. This is minor but I think this sentence could use some reshuffling and some more background for clarity. How about something like A pro-bono lawyer and vigilante in Hell's Kitchen who, as a child, was caught in a freak accident that left him blind but enhanced his remaining senses. Also, neither of the sources say he's blind, a lawyer, or a vigilante.
...pairing the latter with Cage is an homage to the Heroes for Hire comics... Typo: "an" should be an "a" (also, just to be sure, is "the latter" Danny Rand?)
Goddard noted that each of the individual series have different tones from one another, and said that combining them for the miniseries created a different one again. Copyediting suggestion: "Goddard noted that each of the individual series have different tones from one another, and said that combining them for the miniseries created a different one again."
The final image of The Defenders, in which Murdock wakes up with a nun by his side, is an homage to a panel from the "Born Again" story arc. I'd add that this is a Daredevil arc and it was released in 1986
...designing for The Defenders or for the first season of... Second "for" is unnecessary
Is there a way to possibly merge the title sequence into another part of the design section (I'm thinking the first paragraph)? One-sentence subsections are discouraged
Aren't track listings discouraged? This might just be something with the video game project, as there we consider it something that doesn't make sense and isn't interesting to a general audience
A month later, Netflix and Marvel released an official trailer for the miniseries. Bin "official", in this context no one's going to assume it was unofficial
[Sciretta] noted the use of color throughout the episode to differentiate the characters. I'd change "note" to "praise". "Note" should only be used when stating an objective fact, not an opinion (i.e. "He noted it was raining" is OK, but "He noted the game was fun" is not)
This is minor (you don't really need to do anything about it if you don't feel it's important) but general style is to spell out numerals from 1 to 9, so stuff like "He gave the miniseries 3 out of 5 stars" should be revised to "He gave the miniseries three out of five stars"
It isn't listed as an exception in
MOS:NUMNOTES, but I felt it was, since in publications it is common for "star" ratings, when denoted as numbers, to use the numerals, over writing the numbers out. -
Favre1fan93 (
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17:05, 13 January 2019 (UTC)reply
USA Today's Kelly Lawler was more critical of the series, awarding it 2 out of 4 stars, feeling Rand was the "undeniable handicap" of the series, having hoped that "The Defenders would shy away from Danny and his petulance, but unfortunately, Iron Fist is integral to the larger plot." This is a bit of a run-on, I'd revise it
Some of your news websites are not italicized. I noticed Screen Rant, IGN, Comic Book Resources, Refinery29, Untapped Cities, Uproxx, TVLine, and ComicBook.com, but I could have missed a few.
@
TheJoebro64: Sorry for the delay, I ended up not being on here for much of this week. Will definitely get to these comments ASAP. And
Adamstom.97 is back on too, so we can both knock these out and any other concerns you may have. -
Favre1fan93 (
talk)
17:16, 12 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Yes, I am back on as well. Since I missed most of the discussion and it all got a bit messy, I was wondering if you would be able to give a quick rundown of your feelings at the moment and what of the above issues are left to be addressed? Just to make it easier for me to join in at this point. Also, I want to note that the below discussion is effectively abandoned at this point due to the user retiring from Wikipedia. -
adamstom97 (
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22:32, 12 January 2019 (UTC)reply
@
Adamstom.97: Any of the bullets I have not responded to through "Music" I'd like your thoughts on. Anything after "Music" I just did not get around to addressing, but most likely will shortly after I make this comment. -
Favre1fan93 (
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16:22, 13 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment I'm gonna bring up the same issue here I raised at the original GOTG2 GAN (and recently on the talk pages of both Avengers 3 and 4: the citations for "Actor X plays Character Y" should be attached to the statements that they verify, not to unrelated character bios created by Wikipedians based on the show itself. This issue was not addressed in the first GOTG2 GAN, and was enough to fail it, the follow-up GAN should not have ignored the reason for the previous one's failure, and this GAN should not pass without its being addressed.
Hijiri 88 (
聖やや)
07:10, 29 December 2018 (UTC)reply
Further comment Article needs a thorough source-check for close paraphrasing. The data excludes viewing that occurred on Netflix's connected TV or mobile apps. is too close to
the source's The data excludes viewing that occurs on connected-TV platforms or Netflix mobile apps, and I don't doubt that a lot of the other non-quoted, non-unsourced-plot content is similarly plagiarized. See also the recent close paraphrasing mess at the
Black Panther (film) article, which was largely written by the same editors and whose topic is part of the same megafranchise. It may not be too hard to check given how much of this article is just direct quotes from primary sources, but that presents
its own problems.
Hijiri 88 (
聖やや)
17:27, 6 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Marvel has "a wonderful concept" behind why the group would form in the MCU and why they would be called the Defenders is lifted almost word-for-word (with the ordering switched around and the "this world" changed to "the MCU") from 1:03-1:14 of
this video. it was announced that Marvel Television and ABC Studios would provide Netflix with live action series centered around Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, leading up to a miniseries based on the Defenders is probably too close to the
source's Disney will provide Netflix with live action series and a miniseries featuring Marvel characters Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage. Are all these "Marvel Cinematic Universe" articles messes of close paraphrasing? Do they all need to be GARred?
Hijiri 88 (
聖やや)
17:43, 6 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Earwig's Copyvio Detector only picked up a YouTube video that copied Wikipedia and some quotes. IMO there's not really much of an issue with plagiarism here. Maybe some quoted material could be paraphrased, but other than that there's not much.
JOEBRO6420:16, 7 January 2019 (UTC)reply
@
TheJoebro64: Earwig's copyvio detector can be easily tricked. It clearly cannot detect plagiarized content for which no transcript exists except on Wikipedia, but the Quesada bit is much, much too close. Your "opinion" doesn't really matter here, since copyright policy is about the most absolute rule on Wikipedia, and cannot be ignored.
Hijiri 88 (
聖やや)
01:03, 8 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Five words that are the same is not plagiarism. I don't really understand why you're suddenly making absurd accusations of plagiarism against an editor whose contributions to this site are overwhelmingly constructive (seriously, barging in on an ongoing GA review they happen to be involved with and digging through their edit history all the way back to 2012? That's the literal definition of
WP:HOUNDING...)JOEBRO6422:58, 8 January 2019 (UTC)reply
@
TheJoebro64: As someone who was literally hounded off the project for much of 2013, I find it pretty damned offensive that you would accuse me of "the literal definition of WP:HOUNDING" for noticing that an editor had a recurring copyvio problem, and going back to their early edits to see how long it's been going on. If you find an editor who doesn't understand our content policies, particularly something as important as text copyright, it is a service to the project to do the necessary digging to find out how serious the problem is, not hounding. Believe me, I know what I'm talking about: ArbCom have been pretty clear on this matter, and if it weren't completely tangential to this Good Article review I would go into more detail: instead I'll just ask that you retract the above gross personal attack against me. As an aside, I've "barged onto" like four of these GAs over the last two years, as is my right as a frequent contributor to these articles, and I didn't notice the copyvio until like I week after I commented here about an unrelated issue and was completely ignored. Presenting this as you do is completely out of line, and the optics of your passing this GAN after having viciously and unjustifiedly attacked someone opposing it as you have done here, without even an attempt at apology or retraction (I notice you've
apparently logged in three times since I pinged you above) would be simply atrocious. I can live with a GA having copyvio (it's the project's loss, not mine), but I don't think the project would accept a GA that was promoted under these circumstances, by a reviewer so desperate to pass it that he would attack anyone questioning the article's quality in this manner. There's literally nothing stopping you from saying you're sorry and retracting the above remark: this isn't the US legal system where your "admitting to wrongdoing" would give me evidence to use against you; rather the opposite is the case.
Hijiri 88 (
聖やや)
11:41, 9 January 2019 (UTC)reply
(Was busy yesterday, didn't have time to respond.) I didn't mean for you to take that personally (I've never interacted with you before and I didn't join Wikipedia until 2016) so I'm sorry I offended you. But I wasn't commenting about you, I was commenting about your tone and actions (not a personal attack), which aren't really coming across well. You should've remained calm and brought it up to Favre first, not go "AUGHHHHH COPYVIO!!!", dish it out on numerous talk pages, and then accuse editors defending Favre of bad faith and personal attacks. I'm not desperate to pass this article either—if you looked at this discussion's history, you'd notice there were some pretty bigs gaps between when I was reviewing and when I wasn't.
JOEBRO6420:15, 10 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Hi. I made some copyedits, and wanted to leave a tip—in:
Marvel's The Defenders, or simply The Defenders, is an American web television miniseries ...
it's best to drop the "or simply" bit:
Marvel's The Defenders is an American web television miniseries ...
as the shortening is obvious and trivial. It kind of insults the intelligence, and introduces noise into the lead, which should focus on getting to the point. I would've taken it out myself, but I've run into editors who object, so I'll leave it to the maintaining editors to decide whether to take my advice, as whatever you do won't affect promotion.
Curly "JFC" Turkey🍁¡gobble!10:26, 18 January 2019 (UTC)reply
I agree with Curly that the "simply" part is unnecessary as it's obvious. I don't think it's significant enough to prevent this article from passing if Adam and Favre disagree, but, as Curly says, this doesn't really help
JOEBRO6413:16, 18 January 2019 (UTC)reply
I personally also agree that it isn't necessary, but at this point I would be against removing it because this is consistent across the entire MCU topic (which covers a lot of pages). I would want to have a discussion about removing the wording from all related articles rather than just making the change here. -
adamstom97 (
talk)
23:44, 18 January 2019 (UTC)reply
That's a non sequitur, and a total misunderstanding of
WP:COMMONNAME, which is about titling conflicts. But whatever—I was giving a tip on reader-focused writing. If you don't care about improving your writing, I'll take my advice elsewhere.
Curly "JFC" Turkey🍁¡gobble!01:32, 20 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Thanks again for all the effort you have put into this @
TheJoebro64. Unfortunately, I just don't have the time to furhter commit to this review, and don't know when I next will be able to continue here. -
adamstom97 (
talk)
02:17, 13 February 2019 (UTC)reply
TheJoebro64, it's been over three weeks since the above reply; Favre1fan93 edited on three days in February (and not since February 21) and didn't take the opportunity to reply here. Under the circumstances, without anyone to address the issues you've raised, it's probably time to close the review, which has been open for over two and a half months, and not had any edits to address the review for the past month and a half.
BlueMoonset (
talk)
17:14, 9 March 2019 (UTC)reply
@
BlueMoonset, makes sense, but I just want to see if @
Adamstom.97 and
Favre1fan93 have anything to say first (even if they haven't edited in a while, I don't want to catch them off-guard). If they don't I'll close the review within the next two days.
JOEBRO6419:14, 9 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Hi @
TheJoebro64, you can go ahead and fail this review if you wish. I just don't have the time to carry on with it, and I also don't feel that comfortable with continuing this given how messy it ended up getting here. If you are still interested in helping out, I'm sure I will renominate in the future when I have more time and am feeling better about the whole situation. Thanks, and sorry for dragging it out for so long. -
adamstom97 (
talk)
02:15, 17 March 2019 (UTC)reply
The first sentence is kinda a mouthful; I feel like the part about it being based on Marvel Comics characters should either be split into a separate sentence or simplified
... and is the culmination of a series of interconnected shows from Marvel and Netflix. I understand what this means since I know how the MCU works, but to a general audience this could be read as saying it's the literal end of the series.
The limited series stars... "limited" is unnecessary
Hijiri88's comment below does make some sense, I just wanted to hear your thoughts first
A blind pro-bono lawyer in Hell's Kitchen, with his remaining senses enhanced, who is secretly a vigilante. This is minor but I think this sentence could use some reshuffling and some more background for clarity. How about something like A pro-bono lawyer and vigilante in Hell's Kitchen who, as a child, was caught in a freak accident that left him blind but enhanced his remaining senses. Also, neither of the sources say he's blind, a lawyer, or a vigilante.
...pairing the latter with Cage is an homage to the Heroes for Hire comics... Typo: "an" should be an "a" (also, just to be sure, is "the latter" Danny Rand?)
Goddard noted that each of the individual series have different tones from one another, and said that combining them for the miniseries created a different one again. Copyediting suggestion: "Goddard noted that each of the individual series have different tones from one another, and said that combining them for the miniseries created a different one again."
The final image of The Defenders, in which Murdock wakes up with a nun by his side, is an homage to a panel from the "Born Again" story arc. I'd add that this is a Daredevil arc and it was released in 1986
...designing for The Defenders or for the first season of... Second "for" is unnecessary
Is there a way to possibly merge the title sequence into another part of the design section (I'm thinking the first paragraph)? One-sentence subsections are discouraged
Aren't track listings discouraged? This might just be something with the video game project, as there we consider it something that doesn't make sense and isn't interesting to a general audience
A month later, Netflix and Marvel released an official trailer for the miniseries. Bin "official", in this context no one's going to assume it was unofficial
[Sciretta] noted the use of color throughout the episode to differentiate the characters. I'd change "note" to "praise". "Note" should only be used when stating an objective fact, not an opinion (i.e. "He noted it was raining" is OK, but "He noted the game was fun" is not)
This is minor (you don't really need to do anything about it if you don't feel it's important) but general style is to spell out numerals from 1 to 9, so stuff like "He gave the miniseries 3 out of 5 stars" should be revised to "He gave the miniseries three out of five stars"
It isn't listed as an exception in
MOS:NUMNOTES, but I felt it was, since in publications it is common for "star" ratings, when denoted as numbers, to use the numerals, over writing the numbers out. -
Favre1fan93 (
talk)
17:05, 13 January 2019 (UTC)reply
USA Today's Kelly Lawler was more critical of the series, awarding it 2 out of 4 stars, feeling Rand was the "undeniable handicap" of the series, having hoped that "The Defenders would shy away from Danny and his petulance, but unfortunately, Iron Fist is integral to the larger plot." This is a bit of a run-on, I'd revise it
Some of your news websites are not italicized. I noticed Screen Rant, IGN, Comic Book Resources, Refinery29, Untapped Cities, Uproxx, TVLine, and ComicBook.com, but I could have missed a few.
@
TheJoebro64: Sorry for the delay, I ended up not being on here for much of this week. Will definitely get to these comments ASAP. And
Adamstom.97 is back on too, so we can both knock these out and any other concerns you may have. -
Favre1fan93 (
talk)
17:16, 12 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Yes, I am back on as well. Since I missed most of the discussion and it all got a bit messy, I was wondering if you would be able to give a quick rundown of your feelings at the moment and what of the above issues are left to be addressed? Just to make it easier for me to join in at this point. Also, I want to note that the below discussion is effectively abandoned at this point due to the user retiring from Wikipedia. -
adamstom97 (
talk)
22:32, 12 January 2019 (UTC)reply
@
Adamstom.97: Any of the bullets I have not responded to through "Music" I'd like your thoughts on. Anything after "Music" I just did not get around to addressing, but most likely will shortly after I make this comment. -
Favre1fan93 (
talk)
16:22, 13 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment I'm gonna bring up the same issue here I raised at the original GOTG2 GAN (and recently on the talk pages of both Avengers 3 and 4: the citations for "Actor X plays Character Y" should be attached to the statements that they verify, not to unrelated character bios created by Wikipedians based on the show itself. This issue was not addressed in the first GOTG2 GAN, and was enough to fail it, the follow-up GAN should not have ignored the reason for the previous one's failure, and this GAN should not pass without its being addressed.
Hijiri 88 (
聖やや)
07:10, 29 December 2018 (UTC)reply
Further comment Article needs a thorough source-check for close paraphrasing. The data excludes viewing that occurred on Netflix's connected TV or mobile apps. is too close to
the source's The data excludes viewing that occurs on connected-TV platforms or Netflix mobile apps, and I don't doubt that a lot of the other non-quoted, non-unsourced-plot content is similarly plagiarized. See also the recent close paraphrasing mess at the
Black Panther (film) article, which was largely written by the same editors and whose topic is part of the same megafranchise. It may not be too hard to check given how much of this article is just direct quotes from primary sources, but that presents
its own problems.
Hijiri 88 (
聖やや)
17:27, 6 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Marvel has "a wonderful concept" behind why the group would form in the MCU and why they would be called the Defenders is lifted almost word-for-word (with the ordering switched around and the "this world" changed to "the MCU") from 1:03-1:14 of
this video. it was announced that Marvel Television and ABC Studios would provide Netflix with live action series centered around Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, leading up to a miniseries based on the Defenders is probably too close to the
source's Disney will provide Netflix with live action series and a miniseries featuring Marvel characters Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage. Are all these "Marvel Cinematic Universe" articles messes of close paraphrasing? Do they all need to be GARred?
Hijiri 88 (
聖やや)
17:43, 6 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Earwig's Copyvio Detector only picked up a YouTube video that copied Wikipedia and some quotes. IMO there's not really much of an issue with plagiarism here. Maybe some quoted material could be paraphrased, but other than that there's not much.
JOEBRO6420:16, 7 January 2019 (UTC)reply
@
TheJoebro64: Earwig's copyvio detector can be easily tricked. It clearly cannot detect plagiarized content for which no transcript exists except on Wikipedia, but the Quesada bit is much, much too close. Your "opinion" doesn't really matter here, since copyright policy is about the most absolute rule on Wikipedia, and cannot be ignored.
Hijiri 88 (
聖やや)
01:03, 8 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Five words that are the same is not plagiarism. I don't really understand why you're suddenly making absurd accusations of plagiarism against an editor whose contributions to this site are overwhelmingly constructive (seriously, barging in on an ongoing GA review they happen to be involved with and digging through their edit history all the way back to 2012? That's the literal definition of
WP:HOUNDING...)JOEBRO6422:58, 8 January 2019 (UTC)reply
@
TheJoebro64: As someone who was literally hounded off the project for much of 2013, I find it pretty damned offensive that you would accuse me of "the literal definition of WP:HOUNDING" for noticing that an editor had a recurring copyvio problem, and going back to their early edits to see how long it's been going on. If you find an editor who doesn't understand our content policies, particularly something as important as text copyright, it is a service to the project to do the necessary digging to find out how serious the problem is, not hounding. Believe me, I know what I'm talking about: ArbCom have been pretty clear on this matter, and if it weren't completely tangential to this Good Article review I would go into more detail: instead I'll just ask that you retract the above gross personal attack against me. As an aside, I've "barged onto" like four of these GAs over the last two years, as is my right as a frequent contributor to these articles, and I didn't notice the copyvio until like I week after I commented here about an unrelated issue and was completely ignored. Presenting this as you do is completely out of line, and the optics of your passing this GAN after having viciously and unjustifiedly attacked someone opposing it as you have done here, without even an attempt at apology or retraction (I notice you've
apparently logged in three times since I pinged you above) would be simply atrocious. I can live with a GA having copyvio (it's the project's loss, not mine), but I don't think the project would accept a GA that was promoted under these circumstances, by a reviewer so desperate to pass it that he would attack anyone questioning the article's quality in this manner. There's literally nothing stopping you from saying you're sorry and retracting the above remark: this isn't the US legal system where your "admitting to wrongdoing" would give me evidence to use against you; rather the opposite is the case.
Hijiri 88 (
聖やや)
11:41, 9 January 2019 (UTC)reply
(Was busy yesterday, didn't have time to respond.) I didn't mean for you to take that personally (I've never interacted with you before and I didn't join Wikipedia until 2016) so I'm sorry I offended you. But I wasn't commenting about you, I was commenting about your tone and actions (not a personal attack), which aren't really coming across well. You should've remained calm and brought it up to Favre first, not go "AUGHHHHH COPYVIO!!!", dish it out on numerous talk pages, and then accuse editors defending Favre of bad faith and personal attacks. I'm not desperate to pass this article either—if you looked at this discussion's history, you'd notice there were some pretty bigs gaps between when I was reviewing and when I wasn't.
JOEBRO6420:15, 10 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Hi. I made some copyedits, and wanted to leave a tip—in:
Marvel's The Defenders, or simply The Defenders, is an American web television miniseries ...
it's best to drop the "or simply" bit:
Marvel's The Defenders is an American web television miniseries ...
as the shortening is obvious and trivial. It kind of insults the intelligence, and introduces noise into the lead, which should focus on getting to the point. I would've taken it out myself, but I've run into editors who object, so I'll leave it to the maintaining editors to decide whether to take my advice, as whatever you do won't affect promotion.
Curly "JFC" Turkey🍁¡gobble!10:26, 18 January 2019 (UTC)reply
I agree with Curly that the "simply" part is unnecessary as it's obvious. I don't think it's significant enough to prevent this article from passing if Adam and Favre disagree, but, as Curly says, this doesn't really help
JOEBRO6413:16, 18 January 2019 (UTC)reply
I personally also agree that it isn't necessary, but at this point I would be against removing it because this is consistent across the entire MCU topic (which covers a lot of pages). I would want to have a discussion about removing the wording from all related articles rather than just making the change here. -
adamstom97 (
talk)
23:44, 18 January 2019 (UTC)reply
That's a non sequitur, and a total misunderstanding of
WP:COMMONNAME, which is about titling conflicts. But whatever—I was giving a tip on reader-focused writing. If you don't care about improving your writing, I'll take my advice elsewhere.
Curly "JFC" Turkey🍁¡gobble!01:32, 20 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Thanks again for all the effort you have put into this @
TheJoebro64. Unfortunately, I just don't have the time to furhter commit to this review, and don't know when I next will be able to continue here. -
adamstom97 (
talk)
02:17, 13 February 2019 (UTC)reply
TheJoebro64, it's been over three weeks since the above reply; Favre1fan93 edited on three days in February (and not since February 21) and didn't take the opportunity to reply here. Under the circumstances, without anyone to address the issues you've raised, it's probably time to close the review, which has been open for over two and a half months, and not had any edits to address the review for the past month and a half.
BlueMoonset (
talk)
17:14, 9 March 2019 (UTC)reply
@
BlueMoonset, makes sense, but I just want to see if @
Adamstom.97 and
Favre1fan93 have anything to say first (even if they haven't edited in a while, I don't want to catch them off-guard). If they don't I'll close the review within the next two days.
JOEBRO6419:14, 9 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Hi @
TheJoebro64, you can go ahead and fail this review if you wish. I just don't have the time to carry on with it, and I also don't feel that comfortable with continuing this given how messy it ended up getting here. If you are still interested in helping out, I'm sure I will renominate in the future when I have more time and am feeling better about the whole situation. Thanks, and sorry for dragging it out for so long. -
adamstom97 (
talk)
02:15, 17 March 2019 (UTC)reply