Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch • Watch article reassessment page • Most recent review

Result: Delist. The article has been expanded considerably and several of the comments below have been addressed, but there remain problems with the sourcing (2a,b) and lead (1b). Given the expansion a fresh GAN review is needed: articles can be renominated at any time. Geometry guy 23:31, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was very surprised to see this pass a GA review. Just from a surface read, there are a lot of problems with the article:

• The infobox image is non-free and needs to be deleted. There's a free image already in the article.
• Lead needs expansion
• Most of the pre-Harry Potter career is unsourced.
• Yates had a sizable career before Harry Potter, yet reading this article you would think HP is the only thing he did; it's way longer than the rest of the article.
• The references need publishers, dates, and the like; right now it's just URLs and titles.
• The reviewer seems to have make a lot of edits to the article. I believe the review was in good faith, but there may have been a conflict of interest there.

That's just from a skim. I would ask either it be put back at GAN or just delisted entirely. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 22:32, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delist. Once somebody fixes the problems noted here, it can be re-nominated. The article currently does not meet Criteria 1b with regard to WP:LEAD. The pre-Harry Potter Career is insufficiently broad—it only lists his works and is lop-sided compared to the level of commentary in the Harry Potter portion—and there needs to be additional references provided for this portion (for example, cites should be provided for "State of Play was Yates' next directorial achievement. The critically acclaimed TV serial..."). A citation should also be provided for the Los Angeles Times quote. Wizardman, please specify which image is not free. This is the image currently used in the infobox File:DavidYates HallowsPrem.jpg but it seems fine to me (WPCommons-hosted, tagged as public domain). maclean (talk) 03:35, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  The image issue got resolved, nevermind on that one. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 04:56, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delist; I raised the issue with the the closer, where I outlined my concerns before I was aware of this discussion. The reviewer is someone involved in Harry Potter articles, and so I would suspect they were most concerned with the Harry Potter aspects, and not the career as a whole, though I agree that the review was done in good faith. J Milburn (talk) 22:01, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]