Talk:Jessica Alba

This article used to be a very good article. It was promoted on 8 August, 2008 and demoted on 6 June 2021. This means the community feels this article was written very well, but is not now. You may see the vote that promoted the article here. You may see the vote that demoted the article here.

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I feel that Image:Costumehq060no.jpg should be removed from the artical cuase it does not exist. Oysterguitarist 06:41, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

VGA criteria

1. The article must be about a subject which belongs in Wikipedia. There is no use improving articles that do not belong here, and better fit another wiki, like Wikibooks, Wikispecies, Wiktionary, etc.

    Done - Alba is a Hollywood star.

2. The article must be comprehensive. A comprehensive article is not missing any major facts and details.

    Done - fully comprehensive overview of a 27-year-old star.

3. The article must have a certain length. A minimum is 5 kilobytes, not including infoboxes, images, references, other websites, interwiki, and categories. There is no use in denoting very short articles as very good.

    Done article has 9.8Kb of text according to this, as of 11:01, 10 July 2008 (UTC).

4. The article must have gone through a few revisions, possibly by different editors. No one writes perfect articles.

    Done 159 revisions by more than one editor.

5. The article must be placed in the appropriate category. It must have at least one interwiki link.

    Done fully categorised and iw-linked.

6. The last few revisions should be minor changes (like spell-checking or link-fixing).

    Done last few were all about the links.

7. All important terms should be linked and there must be no red links left. Red links point to articles that do not exist yet. Usually the important word or phrase is only linked the first time it occurs.

    Done no red links.

8. If there are any illustrations, they must be pertinent to the article. They must also be properly labelled.

    Done Images exist and are labelled.

9. There must be no templates pointing to the fact that the article needs improvement. These templates include {{complex}}, {{cleanup}}, {{stub}}, {{unreferenced}} and {{wikify}}. The article also should not need them.

    Done - no templates.

10. Content that is from books, journal articles or other publications needs to be referenced. This can either be done with <ref>..</ref><references/> tags, or as a list of publications. For articles that have references or external links on the English Wikipedia, there must be at least one in the Simple English article as well.

     Done all references correctly use {{cite web}}.

The Rambling Man (talk) 11:01, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

When will the voting for this open? - tholly ^--Turnip-- 20:41, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

A couple minor points

Overall, a very good article, but maybe a little tweak or three:

1. Given that many/most bio articles tend to follow the layout of "Name (born, place - died, place) is a ..." we could move the second sentence into that format. ie. rather than the move of the date to the place, move the place to the date.

   Done. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:14, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

2. Under 'Early life', it basically says: Her mom is of this ancentry. Her dad is of that ancestry, and she has a brother. The brother comment has nothing to do with her dad's ancestry and probably should not be part of the same sentence.

   Done, I hope. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:14, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

3. Heading "Films" -> "Movies" - I should have caught that one. I think I got all the other film usages, but missed the big shiny one.. D'oh.

   Done by Tholly. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:14, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Just a couple little things that it could probably survive without changing, but it probably can't hurt. -- Creol(talk) 17:48, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

3.  Done - tholly ^--Turnip-- 17:54, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Creol, you don't me to tell you how much I appreciate that approach! Cheers for your comments. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:14, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Yep 80.84.55.218 (talk) 22:46, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Comments

• Delink dates throughout the article per MOS.
  • Working on that. I certainly wouldn't have linked dates in any case. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:01, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
  • Done. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:05, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

• Update the "movies" and "television" sections
  • Updated. Redlinks to follow. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:21, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
  • Done. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:55, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

• She grew up in Pico Rivera. Article makes no mention of Pico Rivera before; add context and link and create Pico Rivera, California.
  • That wasn't there last time I looked, it's uncited so it's gone. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:08, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

• By "collapsed lung", do you mean Pneumothorax or Atelectasis?
  • "I" don't mean anything. It's most likely pneumothorax so I've linked that. The source gives no more info. (As you know). The Rambling Man (talk) 21:08, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

• Why link appendix to wiktionary?
  • Because Vermiform appendix didn't exist when the article was written? The Rambling Man (talk) 21:11, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

• For reference 18 we have {{Cite video}}, why not use that?
  • It almost certainly didn't exist when the page was written. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:01, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

• Do we have something like this for SEWP, to check for dead links?
  • The same tool. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:21, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
  • No dead links. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:55, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

• Don't mix American dating and English dating in the references and prose.
  • Actually, you can do that as long as you're consistent within the prose and then consistent within the references. Go see the en.wiki MOS for more information on that. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:05, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
  • All consistent anyway, just in case you don't believe me! The Rambling Man (talk) 16:55, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

• Page format on reference 2 reads pp. p. 2.. Fix it. Albacore (talk · changes) 20:23, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
  • Fix it, I will. By Jove. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:01, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
  • Fix it, I did. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:55, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Update required

Public image ends 2007. Career ends 2010. TV ends 2014. Filmography ends 2015. Personal life ends 2017 (maybe OK).

Once those are all done, a general revision is probably worth doing as well. --Gotanda (talk) 06:12, 8 December 2020 (UTC)