Talk:Average Joe

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	Average Joe has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can delist it, or ask for a reassessment.
February 5, 2007 Good article nominee Listed

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[edit] GA Nomination: Pass

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   a (fair representation): b (all significant views):

5. It is stable.

   

6. It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.

   a (tagged and captioned): b lack of images (does not in itself exclude GA): c (non-free images have fair use rationales):

7. Overall:

   a Pass/Fail: [[Image:|15px]]

Overall, I believe the article is extremely well written, and well sourced. It was a pleasure to review. I declare this GA nomination as passed. Keep up the excellent work! Kyra_~(talk) 19:39, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand why this page is listed as controversial- from the history of the page it seems that the controversial template was included as a result of a copy/paste error. I'm revoving the template for this rason. Bestchai 01:37, 9 March 2007 (UTC) bestchai

Yes it was pasted from another article. Thanks for your efforts! Signature^brendel 03:57, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image

I think this image could be added: . Image:Average Joe copy.jpg S♦s♦e♦b♦a♦l♦l♦o♦s ^{(Talk to Me)} 22:07, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Joe Average vs Average Joe

Wiktionary gives Joe Average and Wikipedia Average Joe. Are they both interchangeable? 16@r (talk) 16:12, 30 March 2008 (UTC)