Talk:Clover Moon

GA review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Clover Moon/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk · contribs) 05:35, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

Reviewer: Icepinner (talk · contribs) 10:25, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

Hi Danilo, long time no see... thanks for reviewing Details Cannot Body Wants and Istana Park a while back, so I thought I'd return the favour by reviewing one of your articles! Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 10:25, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so so much @Icepinner:! I really appreciate it :) and I hope to review another article of yours sometime! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 19:36, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

I have finished my review, DaniloDaysOfOurLives and I will place this on hold until all issues have been adressed. Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 15:34, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, lists, and tables): It is factually accurate and verifiable, as shown by a source spot-check. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): It is broad in its coverage. a (major aspects): b (focused): It follows the neutral point of view policy. Fair representation without bias: It is stable. No edit wars, etc.: It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate. a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions and alt text):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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Plot

• "and Clover has to look after her younger siblings rather than Mildred, who does not allow Clover to go to school and beats her" why does Mildred not let Clover go to school? Actually, what does Mildred even do if she's not raising her children? Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 17:51, 20 September 2026 (UTC)
• "Clover has two friends who are both disabled; doll maker Godfrey Arthur Fisher (who is often known as Mr Dolly), who has scoliosis and is mocked, and Jimmy Wheels, who is paralysed" this should be a colon instead of a semicolon, no? Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 17:51, 20 September 2026 (UTC)
• "Clover's friends help her run away and she later meets Mary Anne, who has epilepsy. She ends up looking after children in Miss Smith's refuge." is there anything significant Clover does with Mary Anne? How did Clover end up looking after children in a refuge? And do we know anything about Miss Smith? Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 17:51, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

Publication

• "The novel draws on Wilson's own experiences of family tension. Wilson began being more publicly open about her difficult childhood shortly before Clover Moon's release following the death of her mother a year prior." what kind of family tensions did Wilson experience in her childhood? Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 17:51, 20 September 2026 (UTC)
• I do wonder if Clover Moon was introduced before in another book in the Hetty Feather series, or is this a completely new character? Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 17:51, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

  She is a completely new character DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 19:35, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

Reception

The prose is fine, but I'm concerned that this section has WP:DUE concerns. We have paragraphs based entirely on one source, so perhaps the section should be organised by general viewpoints on the book? Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 14:35, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

Images

• Clover Moon.jpg NFC, proper rationale
• Jacqueline Wilson 20191205.jpg CC–BY–SA 4.0. I think you might need a citation for the caption? Dunno.
• Images have proper copyright, but they need alt text (per the recent GA criteria changes)

Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 17:51, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

Regarding the citation, it is referenced in the prose so I assumed that was fine DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 19:36, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

I was told in a PR for my first FAC that some editors might want a caption in the photo. Since the fact is already mentioned in the prose I think it's okay. Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 10:02, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

Sources

• WP:CITEUNSEEN gives me 4 generally reliable sources used, namely the Guardian and Radio Times
• The rest seem to be book review websites or non-independent sources. However, this is okay as most of the former are websites of reliable publications. The latter are two YouTube videos (which are cited to confirm the existence of the videos themselves) and the book's listing on its publisher's website (which is used for basic information and reviews).

Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 17:04, 26 September 2026 (UTC)

• Earwig seems to be okay – the sources with the high percentage contain material that are quoted in the article, so it is okay. Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 17:08, 26 September 2026 (UTC)

Spotcheck

The square root of the total sources will be checked (four sources). Spotcheck based on this version

• [3]: 4000 stories were submitted to the contest, not over 4000. Other instances are a pass.
• [5]: pass
• [10]: the child reviewer stated that they learned that children were beaten during Victorian times, so I wouldn't say that they learned "a lot" about Victorian times. Other instances are a pass.
• [11]: pass

A couple of issues with source-to-text integrity. Given the frequency of citations to the news sources and book review websites, this is relatively minor. Out of the total usage of sources in the spotcheck, 12 of them have good source-to-text integrity (or to put it in another way, the source-to-text rate in the spotcheck is 86%). Thus, I will mark this spotcheck as a pass. While the reception might change given my above comment, most of the core ideas (quotes and reviewer's opinions) should be there, so I don't think the source-to-text integrity will be severily affected. Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 15:33, 27 September 2026 (UTC)