Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Our Gang archive 2

Our Gang

Self Re-nomination. Better known to most as The Little Rascals, originally nominated last December (Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Our Gang/archive1); didn't exactly fail, but didn't exactly pass either. The redlinked directors will get articles before the end of tomorrow. --b. Touch 23:31, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Good, but I have some comments:

1. What does who were often paired together in both and a later teen-age version called The Boy Friends mean?
2. One of my biggest pet peeves about television shows and movies is that the writers are neglected. Some discussion of who wrote the shows needs to be included.
3. Make the red links to the directors blue.
4. Some of the links are duplicated. For example, Robert Blake is linked twice, and there are other cases. RickK 07:02, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

(1) I'll fix that sentence: who were often paired together in both Our Gang and a later teen-aged version of the series called The Boy Friends, which Roach produced from 1930 to 1932.. (2) Will do (was in today's plans as it was). (3) Our Gang writers generally went uncredited, but I will re-scour Leonard Maltin's book to produce a list of writers, two of whom were Frank Tashlin and Walter Lantz. (4) I will fix that. --b. Touch 13:34, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

All done. Boy, that secion on Our Gang imitators just got a kickstart--there are (well, were) Wikipedia articles written by or about these frauders, claiming that they were Our Gang kids! Have they no shame?! --b. Touch 07:23, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• A comment: some of the bits about blacks and whites working together should probably be sourced. Who believes the black kids were Stepin Fetchit stereotypes? In particular, the sentence "In their adult years these actors became some of Our Gang's staunchest defenders, maintaining that its integrated cast and innocent storylines were far from racist." (which actors said this? a direct link or citation would be nice) It's not even clear at first who "these actors" are. I'll support if this is taken care of. Tuf-Kat 22:48, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)