Talk:Midnight Madness

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Midnight Madness was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. Reviewed version: No date specified. To provide a date use: {{FailedGA|insert date in any format here}}

Contents 1 GA Failure 2 Discussion 3 Fair use rationale for Image:Midmad-dvd-combined.jpg 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Midmadteams.jpg 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Mmteams.jpg

[edit] GA Failure

Midnight Madness was recently nominated to be promoted to good article status, but has unfortunately failed. Reasons for failing GA:

• Pictures:
  • LEAD PICTURE! This isn't even labelled! I fail any article without this, the image should be deleted or tagged, GA and FA are examples of Wikipedia's best work, it should be within the law!

• Horrendous intro! This is what you have:

Midnight Madness is a 1980 cult comedy film from Walt Disney Pictures, starring David Naughton. The film is about a group of college students who participate in an all night puzzle solving race. This is Michael J. Fox's first film role.

Tagline: The most fun you'll ever have... in the dark. DVD Tagline: A Wacky College Adventure The film did poorly at the box office and was panned by critics, but later gained a cult following, and has served as the inspiration for many real-life puzzle and Alternate reality games.

• • This is awful, I would personally fail it now, an introduction is the most important part of an article, and this is a couple of Trivia facts flung together! It should be something like:

Midnight Madness is a 1980s comedy film from Walt Disney Pictures, featuring David Naughton and an unknown of the time, Michael J. Fox. The story follows a group of students who form and compete in a nighttime "puzzle-solving" race. Although the film was both panned by cinema-goers and critics, the film later received a cult following, inspiring many variated alternative reality games.

• • Taglines should be in trivia section, not the introduction.

• The game
  • Prose instructions into para
  • Wikify

• The Teams
  • Prose teams into para

• The rest of the article is actually good, I'd pass it if the whole article was to that quality. Add References and add extra facts I've mentioned to Trivia, also use inline citation to link references. If this happens I'd be happy to review it (you'd probably want someone else : P) but keep working, you'll get there yet (Please do not take any comments personally) Highway 20:48, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

• The Blue Team are "unattractive?" Odd distinction to make. Dynayellow 19:06, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
  • It is one that was held by many professional critics of the film, incluiding Roger Ebert--The_stuart 18:06, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
    • Fair enough. Dynayellow 00:48, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
• I wouldn't mind seeing a section devoted to real-life events inspired by the film. One of them that I've played in, Get-A-Clue, has been played by the Georgia Tech Band and Alumni annually since 1989.--KCRWreck 18:33, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Midmad-dvd-combined.jpg

Image:Midmad-dvd-combined.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 06:51, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Midmadteams.jpg

Image:Midmadteams.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 06:51, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Mmteams.jpg

Image:Mmteams.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 20:56, 2 January 2008 (UTC)