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The article was kept by User:Marskell 12:09, 3 October 2008 [1].

[edit] The Adventures of Tintin

Notified WP COMICS, Hiding, Midnightblueowl, Fram

previous FAR (10 August 2006)

Big parts of the article are unreferenced and it therefore fails the 1(c) criteria; "factually accurate" and the 2(c) criteria; "consistent citations". --TheLeftorium 18:10, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

I've straightened out the archiving of the old FAR (fortunately I remembered it, although it wasn't listed here). Since the article was cited during its FAR two years ago, please specify which "big parts" you're referring to with specific examples of facts that are likely to be challenged. Consistency in citation formatting is unrelated to whether citations are lacking; please provide examples of 2c issues. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:32, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, more specific information on where additional citations may be needed would be helpful. --Dragonfiend (talk) 23:17, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

I worked on this the last time around, and whilst I'd have to go back to the library to get two of the books out again, I'd be prepared to bet that it is almost all verifiable to either Mills, Thompson or Farr, given the article has barely changed since the last FARC, [2]. Consistency of citations is a sofixit issue, no? Hiding T 11:31, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the footnotes. I'm sorry I wasn't more specific. The problems I see are that much in the "Memorabilia and merchandise" section is unreferenced, especially the "Shops" and "Coins" sections. Also, the first three paragraphs of the "Theatre" section are completely unreferenced. --TheLeftorium 13:52, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm seeing cites in the "Memorabilia and merchandise" section and in the "Shops" and "Coins" sections. Everything in the shops section before the cite is sourced from that cite, that's how I write, I don't put the cite after every sentence but at the end of everything so sourced or the end of the paragraph if it goes beyond one. The coins one looks like it has changed since, but does have a cite. The theatre section shouldn't be too hard to cite, the first sentence is attributable to Comics: Anatomy of a Mass Medium - Page 184. Don't have time to add it now, but do you mind me asking if cite tags might have been better than a FA review? It looks to me like there are what, three or four sentences that could be challenged. We've got an FA on the main page now in the same state. Hiding T 14:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I suppose. Sorry for causing trouble. I'll add cite tags were I feel they are necessary. --TheLeftorium 14:26, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Done! Someone could probably close this review now. --TheLeftorium 14:34, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

NOT YET - some statements/paragraphs lack citations. I just found a couple of examples:

• ---In music, Tintin has been the inspiration to a number of bands and musicians. A British technopop band of the 1980s took the name The Thompson Twins after the Tintin characters. Stephen Duffy, a former member of Duran Duran, performed the minor hit single "Kiss Me" under the name "Tintin"; he had to drop the name under pressure of a copyright infringement suit. Duffy would later release the album Designer Beatnik under the name "Doctor Calculus" in reference to Professor Calculus. An Australian psychedelic rock band and an American independent progressive rock band have used the name "Tin Tin", and British electronic dance music duo Tin Tin Out was similarly inspired by the character. South African singer/songwriter Gert Vlok Nel compares Tintin to God in his Afrikaans song "Waarom ek roep na jou vanaand", presumably because Tintin is a morally pure character. Australian cartoonist Bill Leak often portrays the bespectacled neophyte Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd as Tintin.--- This entire paragraph needs at least one source for every claim of the song made or the copyright issues etc.

• The 'Books' section is only a sentence. Way too short. Either summarize the main article and expand it into this article or remove the section all togethor me thinks. Domiy (talk) 06:20, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
  • I never thought any of that was likely to be challenged, to be honest. But it can still be solved with cite tags or people fixing the problem themselves, can't it? Hiding T 10:55, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Closing. I edited this during the first FAR. It was extensively gone over and I don't see much to criticize now. Marskell (talk) 12:03, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

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