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	Goldfinger (film) has been listed as one of the Arts 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.
Article milestones Date Process Result July 16, 2007 Good article nominee Not listed July 18, 2007 Good article nominee Listed July 19, 2007 Peer review Reviewed Current Status: Good article

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Here are some things you can do to get Goldfinger (film) to GA status. Feel free to strike out anything completed, but please do not sign your name. In Awards section, cite (use official Academy Awards site, and BAFTA) In Soundtrack section, add a summary of what the Goldfinger (soundtrack) page provides, cite There dosen't need to be a See Also section The Reception and Release section may be merged into one The Release/Reception section needs sources, Check out Casino Royale (2006 film) for how to do the cast section correctly. Half of the cast arne't notable enough to get a mention Add a link to List of James Bond henchmen in Goldfinger and List of James Bond allies in Goldfinger The plot section is too long, it must be shortened, preferbaly re-written. The final paragraph of Effects has the sam source right through the paragraph, just use the one source at the end of the paragraph. That paragraph is probably a little too long. Filming could probably be expanded The above was added by SpecialWindler talk 02:04, 14 July 2007 (UTC) Address each and every concern expressed by the GA reviewer, striking them as they are seen to. Cliff smith 20:18, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

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Contents 1 Good article nomination successful 2 Peer review 3 Vehicles and gadgets 4 Minor Correction 5 Citation for use

[edit] Good article nomination successful

This article meets all of the GA criteria. My only suggestion is that more references could be included in the Plot section and the first paragraph in the lead section. I wish you all the best with your editing... -- Johnfos 00:46, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

You can't reference plot, it's basically citing the film, which is pointless. And the lead should only be cited if that information is not going to be repeated in the article. SpecialWindler talk 10:08, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Peer review

I am opening a peer review for additional suggestions and refinement. Cliff smith 18:58, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vehicles and gadgets

Some of the stuff added therein looks a little trivial since it lacks references. And also, is it necessary to make note of every vehicle that was in the film? Cliff smith 16:45, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Well it needs referncing asap and some of the more trivial info taken out certainly. But it definately needs a solid section on it. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you?" Contribs} 18:39, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

• I have removed silly trivia as I dont want this article to get delisted. Vikrant Phadkay 15:08, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Minor Correction

In paragraph 3 of RECEPTION, the phrase, "It was recently announced" appears. It does not seem proper for an encyclopedia that may be read years later.

Les Sellinger70.18.216.238 05:17, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia's not paper, so it will change with the times to some extent. Cliff smith 21:23, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citation for use

• Nigel Kendall. "Goldfinger? Dr No? Or Casino Royale?", The Times, 2007-07-26. 

Brilliant review of Bond's incompetence throughout the film. Worth including for some exploration of how Cubby and Broccoli were attempting to perfect the formula. Alientraveller 21:46, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps, if you think a "controversial storyline" section can be supported by reliable sources. But a single 40-year-later critique isn't terribly notable. FWIW, I agree with the bloke, I've long known that Goldfinger (film) was a) a terrible Bond story, b) bursting with panache, and gorgeous color photography (Ted Moore?), and c) the worst possible but most imitated Bond formula. He doesn't do any detecting, so much as fall out of one goofup into another. He puts one girl in harm's way without reason (excluding wild, spontaneous sex), and fails to protect another. (In teh book, IIRC, Tilly lasted until Kentucky, but died there. I don't remember how. It's one of the few books in which 007 has two damsels.) Why does Goldfinger kill off all the mob bosses ... does he think he'll avoid an all-out underworld war over that? Oh, and the barn scene ... Bond, the British Superspy Date Rapist? Today, that scene just wouldn't track. Totally against the Fleming character, too. Film-Bond's lasciviousness always disgusted me, and some of his sleazy, manipulative behavior in Live and Let Die is a low point of the whole series. Still ... you can't deny Guy Hamilton's panache in "having a little fun" with the character (Inside Goldfinger, 2000, MGM Home Entertainment). From start to finish, Goldfinger is big, loud, jovial, slick, and entertaining. In that frame of reference, Goldfinger spawned 40 years of action films with questionable ethics.

And because WP has no place for OR or soapboxing, all of what I've said doesn't belong in the article. Perhaps this reference is the start of a "controversial storyline" section after all. I say ... Be bold, go for it, Alien! :) David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 17:04, 7 August 2007 (UTC)