Peanuts

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I've listed this article for peer review because I believe it can be a GA and has plenty of FA potential. I realize it failed GAN in 2006, and has an old peer review in 2007. Anything from those that you want to reiterate, anything you think is sufficiently fixed, or any new stuff that has come up? There are plenty of sourcing issues. Any suggestions you can provide would be helpful (where to look, any books you know of). Anything else you think this article needs to really help it shine, be bold and speak up.

Thanks, BOZ (talk) 02:11, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mlaffs' comments: I'm going to have a look at this, as it's a particular area of interest for me. I also have some material at home that may prove helpful wrt sourcing. More to come… Mlaffs (talk) 18:43, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome; very much appreciated! :) BOZ (talk) 22:32, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ruhrfisch comments What I noticed about this is that so much of it is unsourced, which is a shame as there are several very good books out there on Peanuts and Charles M. Schulz.

My rule of thumb is that every quote, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref.
Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. ((cite web)) and other cite templates may be helpful. See WP:CITE and WP:V
The article mentions Chip Kidd, ed. (2001) Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz but does not seems to use it as a reference. This is a fascinating book and would be very helpful (as well as fun to look at).
Another source that I have not read but comes highly reccommended is Michaelis' Schulz and Peanuts See the official website which looks at how Peanuts reflects many incidents in Schulz's life
There are also books by Schulz himself, some of which are listed in the article. I have "Peanuts A Golden Celebration" from 1999 which has a lot of strips and a fair amount of commentary by Schulz himself. I think the Complete Peanuts books also have some ciritcal and historical commentary.
I would also look at Google books and scholar - there has been a lot written on this strip and its creator. The current article uses mostly internet sources, but a good library should have many of these books.
The article uses ((cquote)) but according the documentation at Template:Cquote this is for pull quotes only, and this should probably use ((blockquote)) instead.

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 01:40, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; I'm open to all input. :) BOZ (talk) 03:32, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]