Talk:Beyond Fantasy Fiction

GA nomination

Hello there! I've put the article promotion on hold because of the following issues:

• verifiability (most important)

• the article uses almost entirely primary sources in its first section, which is the one which especially needs secondary/tertiary sources. Wikipedia:No original research says: "An article or section of an article that relies on a primary source should (1) only make descriptive claims, the accuracy of which is easily verifiable by any reasonable, educated person without specialist knowledge, and (2) make no analytic, synthetic, interpretive, explanatory, or evaluative claims."
• also, per Wikipedia:Verifiability: "Editors should provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is challenged or is likely to be challenged").
• in particular, the following need to be sourced/changed/removed

• "Although it has generally been regarded as one of the best of the many new magazines launched in the 1950s, it was not a commercial success"
• "it has generally been regarded as one of the best of the many new magazines launched in the 1950s"
• "Gold was one of the very few American magazine editors to use his work, though Powers was prolific in the paperback field"
• "The cover art was often surrealist, which was unusual for a genre magazine"
• "The quality of the fiction remained high throughout the magazine's life"
• "Beyond published several significant or widely-reprinted stories during its short history."
• "the magazine is often cited as being the successor to the unusual fantasy tradition of Unknown."
• "An unusual feature of the magazine was that every story included a facsimile of the author's signature"
• "there were occasional "filler" pieces, as was common in such magazines"

• generally, when using the cite_book template, use the "quote=" parameter to quote the relevant passages if applicable. for example, if the statements above can be made using a quote from the encyclopedias you used, add the quote parameter (of course not for minor details as dates etc., or if the quote already is part of the article).

• style

• incorporate the list of significant contributions as prose, but move the list to a separate section.
• there is some poor lost sentence "covers were contributed by René Vidmer and Arthur Krusz" in the second section among the publishing details. seems out of place, and should be moved to the first section
• move one of the images to the lead part for identification or simply add Template:Infobox Magazine accordingly

Well, I know that's quite a bit, but remember if s.th. is not verifiable, just remove it and stick to what you've got.. best wishes! Johnnyw talk 20:03, 27 May 2007 (UTC)