Talk:Do or Die (Super Furry Animals song)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: maclean (talk) 03:03, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Good article review (see Wikipedia:What is a good article? for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

   Well-written but I have a question below regarding one sentence.

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

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

   See Notes below.

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

   Covers major aspects including Recording, Composition, Reception, Video, Personnel, and Chart performance.

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy:

5. It is stable:

6. 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):

   2 Fair use images, rationales ok.

   1 Fair use sound recording, rationales ok.

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Notes

• "...Creation and their record plugging company had folded and that the decision had been made, first to release "Night Vision" instead of "Wherever I Lay Phone", and then to replace "Night Vision" with "Do or Die"..." - passive voice makes the writing unclear: who made the decision?

It was Creation - have made this clearer. The point is that both companies were in the process of going out of business so the decision was quite haphazard. Cavie78 (talk) 09:02, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

• What is a "record plugging company"? Is there a wikipedia article that describe what a record plugging company is?

That's how's it's described by Rhys. I did look for a Wiki link but couldn't find one. There's Song-plugger which is definitely not right and Product placement, which is a different thing entirely. There are plenty of hits within articles for "record plugger" but seemingly no article on the subject. It's basically a promotions company that tries to get singles played on the radio. Cavie78 (talk) 09:02, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

• In "Release and critical reception", "quite fancied the idea of a novelty hit". - which reference did this quote come from?

Didn't realise I hadn't got a close cite for that - will check whether it's from the Melody Maker or NME article when I get home. Cavie78 (talk) 09:02, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

It's from the MM so I've added a cite. Cavie78 (talk) 16:47, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Ok. It all looks good. maclean (talk) 02:00, 15 October 2010 (UTC)