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A fact from Music torture in the war on terror appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 November 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Overall: Oof, that's a heavy topic. Article appears to be new enough and long enough. Reading through it, it appears balanced. Earwig is unhappy, but this appears to be due to the lengthy quotes. No QPQ needed, and no image. Looks good to go. Preference for ALT 1 or ALT 2 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 19:59, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Gitmo playlist → Music torture in the war on terror – About half of the sources on the page currently lump in music torture at Gitmo with the other American detention camps in the War on Terror, so I think we should expand the scope of this article beyond Gitmo. @AirshipJungleman29 did suggest "Auditory torture in Guantanamo Bay", but most of the sources almost exclusively focus on music. It's possible both are just pitfalls of my research, but I think this is still good enough reason for a move. Based5290 :3 (talk) 07:35, 5 November 2024 (UTC) — Relisting.JJPMaster (she/they) 04:27, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – expanding the scope slightly will increase the article's accuracy. The article itself strates that, "Loud music was employed in interrogations in other American detention centers during the war on terror, including Abu Ghraib", and furthermore about a detention facility in Morocco. Thus, extending the scope of this article to include all American detention camps during the war on terror is natural. Makkkkus (talk) 12:48, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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I think I got this article as far as I can apart from a few minor things, but I'm not super experienced with writing, nor was I super familiar with this topic before I started researching. I was hoping to get some feedback to bring up the quality of the article.
Thanks, Based5290 :3 (talk) 07:31, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Article looks generally good, and ready for a formal review process like GA, which I've kept in mind while reading it. My only comment is that the title chosen is somewhat odd. By the looks of it, there are four names for the "playlist", but no actual playlist is known to have existed and the songs seem to have been more semi-randomly chosen by guards. In addition, most of the article is not about anything that can be called a "playlist", but instead about the mechanisms and reception of the torture. I would thus suggest renaming the article to "Auditory torture at Guantanamo Bay" or something similar.
The title apparently came about from someone copy pasting a bunch of text from a newspaper to start this article, but I wouldn't be opposed to changing it. However, by a very rough count, only about half of the sources focus on Gitmo specifically, while the others generally lump it in with the other detention centers. Maybe it should be renamed to something like "Auditory torture in the War on Terror" (which should be as simple as moving some info from background to use and changing a few words around)?
Per MOS:ALLCAPS, titles in a citation probably should not be in all caps.
Some paragraphs are quite long, making it hard to read (especially on a mobile device). I suggest splitting up some of the paragraphs: my recommended target length is 4-6 sentences per paragraph.
Wikimedia Commons might have some images that could be added to the article.
Oof, that's a heavy topic. Article appears to be new enough and long enough. Reading through it, it appears balanced. Earwig is unhappy, but this appears to be due to the lengthy quotes. No QPQ needed, and no image. Looks good to go. Preference for ALT 1 or ALT 2 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 19:59, 6 November 2024 (UTC)