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Good articleA Dog and Pony Show (Homicide: Life on the Street) has been listed as one of the Media and drama good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Good topic starA Dog and Pony Show (Homicide: Life on the Street) is part of the Homicide: Life on the Street (season 1) series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
March 4, 2011Good article nomineeListed
April 20, 2011Good topic candidatePromoted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 19, 2009.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Alan Taylor was chosen to direct the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "A Dog and Pony Show" after the show's producers were impressed by a short film Taylor made in a seminar taught by Martin Scorsese?
Current status: Good article

GA Review

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Reviewer: Wizardman Operation Big Bear 18:01, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be reviewing this article sometime today. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 18:01, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Overall the article is good, though I have a couple concerns:

  • Shouldn't the full names be listed first in the plot section, or do they only go by the last names.
    • In other Homicide articles, it's been just the last names. Generally, I've found in television episode articles, usually only one name is used in the plot summaries; it's usually the first names, but in this case most characters refers to each other by last name in Homicide so I use last names instead. I can add the full names if you really feel strongly about it, but it may push the plot summary past the length requirements in WP:TVPLOT. These Homicide episodes have so many subplots and ensamble characters that it's a challenge to keep them succinct. :) — Hunter Kahn 01:52, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Barry Levinson, executive producer of Homicide: Life on the Street, hand-picked Taylor to direct the episode after watching Taylor's 1988 half-hour film, That Burning Question, which Taylor made as a thesis for a seminar taught by film director Martin Scorsese." A cite would be helpful for this.

I'll put the article on hold, and once those couple issues are fixed I'll pass the article. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 03:34, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]