Living in a Ghost Town was a Music good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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Remove [1] from the infobox since you do not add refs; however, I notice that The Glimmer Twins are the only producers not included in the personnel; mistake here?
Done Matt Clifford was not sourced but the personnel section explicitly says that Jagger and Richards produced the song.
Nothing there says that music video links are obligatory and certainly nothing about YouTube. I am not going to add a link to YouTube: why are you insisting on this?
The lead is currently too short since it is missing a good amount of information such as the genres of the song and chart performance; I will order how to add this appropriately below and it should be two paragraphs instead of one para.
The second sentence should instead be "The song was produced by..." but this needs to be written out in the first section since the sources are there for it
The four year statement in this sentence is not sourced in the body; fix this
Done
You should follow this with a new sentence about the genres of the song and add lyrics information if you can sourced that in the body first
Done
Start a new para here and the opening sentence should start as ""Living in a Ghost Town" was recorded during..." since this should not only come before the critical reception, but should be a different sentence
Well think about it, the lead has things ordered in a very similar way to the order of sections and recording obviously comes before reception --K. Peake09:52, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Rearranged
"for a forthcoming studio album that the band has been working on since 2015." → "of the Rolling Stones in 2019, ultimately being finished the following year."
"The song has received positive reviews from critics" → "The song received generally positive reviews from music critics" with the appropriate target and add what was praised/commented on
Done
The following sentence should mention some of the notable chart positions of the song
This is more about background on the song than recording, though they are very similar so change to background and composition --K. Peake07:13, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree. If this matters so much, someone else can change it.
"Since 2017, the band had been" → "Since 2017, the Rolling Stones had been"
Done
"but had to stop" → "but had to stop touring in 2020"
Done
"to raise money" → "helping raise money"
Done
"during the crisis." → "during the pandemic."
Not done: overuse of the word "pandemic"; no need to repeat it over and over again
"On 23 April, the band released 'Living in a Ghost Town' online." → "On 23 April of that year, the band released "Living in a Ghost Town" as a single." with the target
Not done I have no clue why you keep writing "with the target"...?
That makes less sense: what are "directing words"?
I mean the words being DIRECTED to a Wikipedia article, it is like a wikilink basically. This should not be hard to understand... --K. Peake09:47, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Sometimes you include this language and sometimes you just write "finished remotely and is their" → "finished remotely, marking their" so that makes it confusing. I have never seen anyone refer to "directing words" in Wikipedia.
"finished remotely and is their" → "finished remotely, marking their"
Done
"Jagger claims to have" → "Mick Jagger, a founder member of the Rolling Stones, claimed to have" with the appropriate wikilink
"The initial release was digital-only, accompanied" → "The song was initially released for digital download and streaming as a single on 23 April 2020, being accompanied"
"with footage taken from across the world of empty city streets." → "with footage of empty city streets that was taken from across the world."
Done
"The band have plans to resume No Filter once the pandemic subsides" → "Once the pandemic subsides, the Rolling Stones plan to resume the No Filter Tour"
Done
"the single is a means of keeping" → "the single was done to keep"
Not done This is less clear: it's the release not the "doing" of the single that is relevant.
"promoting the album's worth of new material" → "for promotion of their upcoming album"
Done
"and purple vinyl single exclusive" → "and purple vinyl, both of which are exclusive" with the target
Done
"online store and an orange vinyl single for" → "online store, and an orange vinyl for sale by"
Done
Are you sure the releases are still forthcoming since they are apparently out now?
"that the pacing and mood" → "that the song's pacing and mood"
Done
"of being in lockdown." → "of being in lockdown during the pandemic."
Done
"agrees that the single" → "opined that the single"
Done
"'right on time'" → ""right on time","
Not done en-GB
The NME review should come last in this para since it is the most critical review
Not done How does that make sense?
Because reviews come in order from most positive to most negative if it is generally positive, or the other way around if generally negative --K. Peake07:13, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
There is no source for the Rolling Stones credits; add at the top of the section "Credits adapted from..." and then provide the appropriate source there
Done
Where are the mentions of the Glimmer Twins members?
Done
Remove redundant wikilinks
Not done: it's fine to link to someone's name in a list; otherwise, the list would look unbalanced
Release formats for 'Living in a Ghost Town' → Release dates and formats for "Living in a Ghost Town"
Done
The region col is missing, which should be the first one
Not done "Missing"? "Should"? Based on what?
This is how release history tables are supposed to be laid out, look through many GAs and you will see this; it is important to list where the releases were --K. Peake07:13, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Zane Lowe should be authorlinked on ref 7, and lay his name out in the same manner as the other authors
Not done: this is not an improvement
It needs to be laid out with last followed by first name for consistency and any authorlinking is good to provide more context --K. Peake07:13, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Not even sure why I wrote that, since I did what you asked.
On hold after I finished my comments today easily just like I set out to do, hopefully this can become a GA on this very day and I understand the numerous mistakes since you are not a heavily experienced editor! --K. Peake11:35, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Koavf It looks like you do not have much experience in GANs, that was not meant as a diss. And I have made responses to your comments above. --K. Peake06:56, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Kyle Peake, I didn't think you were being disrespectful: it is just one of many things that is unintelligible to me on this page. Responded myself, including several changes. Thanks. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯08:24, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Koavf Sorry but I am going to have to ✗ Fail this article because not only has it been on hold for too long, but you have not implemented numerous changes properly even after I have gone through them on the review page. --K. Peake08:15, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Kyle Peake, Well, you left several items above outstanding. It's unfortunate that you think that this article can't be good without a link to YouTube but I'm never going to include that, so c'est la vie. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯15:18, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It's an article about a British subject so should use the variant more widely used in British English. While the OED accepts both variants, criticise is by far the predominant spelling in Br. English and -ize is generally viewed, correctly or otherwise, as US English (it isn't, but -ise the widely used form). Oxford is something of an outlier in this respect, as with things like the Oxford comma; almost any publication, company or newspaper style guide in the UK would require -ise. Wikipedia's MoS makes it clear that language in articles should be consistent (Br. spelling is used elsewhere in the article) and that articles with a tie to a specific country should use the style of that country. My contention is that while both variants are accepted, the version with the (by far) wider use in Britain should be used.Neilinabbey (talk) 16:25, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Either spelling is perfectly acceptable, but per MOS:RETAIN the long standing use of 'criticizing' should be retained until there is a consensus to change it on the talk page. Personally I would prefer to change it, but not strongly: Oxford spelling is a perfectly acceptable variant but a slightly unusual one, even within the University of Oxford (which I know well). Jonathan A Jones (talk) 16:51, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Given the far greater majority of -ise usage in UK English I would prefer to see it be changed, especially since we are talking about one occurrence of a single word, which I don’t think is capable of establishing “consistency” as discussed in MOS:RETAIN. Celjski Grad (talk) 19:28, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
They're both correct for British English, and -ise should not be enforced as the One True Spelling. In fact, they're both still productive. This must have been hashed out on the manual of style talk pages several hundred times, by now, surely? Special:Diff/617099087 seems to bear out that we've had this discussion at least once. If the person actually doing the article writing work has decided upon Oxford spelling (which is a bit of a misnomer since it isn't confined to Oxford), don't go style-warrioring it to something else. Uncle G (talk) 00:32, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Not done Why would this be better?
Done Excellent point.
On hold after I finished my comments today easily just like I set out to do, hopefully this can become a GA on this very day and I understand the numerous mistakes since you are not a heavily experienced editor! --K. Peake 11:35, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
