Talk:Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Jaguar (talk · contribs) 14:30, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'll take this one and will mainly focus on the prose. Should complete this within a day or two ☯ Jaguar ☯ 14:30, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

Is it reasonably well written?
A. Prose is "clear and concise", without copyvios, or spelling and grammar errors:

B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists:
Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
A. Has an appropriate reference section:

B. Citation to reliable sources where necessary:

C. No original research:
Is it broad in its coverage?
A. Major aspects:

B. Focused:
Is it neutral?
Fair representation without bias:
Is it stable?
No edit wars, etc:
Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content:

B. Images are provided if possible and are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:
Overall:
Pass or Fail:

Initial comments

I would de-link Ruth St. Records in the lead per WP:LEAD if the article is not notable enough to exist yet
"music on the album consists of noisy guitar chords" - what is this trying to say? Aren't all guitar chords noisy?
The lead itself summarizes the article so this meets the GA criteria
"when Hood moved to Athens, GA" - Athens, Georgia
"and soon after his previous band, Adam's House Cat, disbanded[3] The other half were written in 2004" - grammatical error, there should be a full stop there?
""Belvedere" is a bad-date song about "a creepy guy", according to Hood" - bad date?
"Cataldo criticized the album for being far inferior to Hood's work with the Truckers" - this criticism was not mentioned in the lead?
Can the Accolades and commercial performance be expanded slightly or at least merge the two sentences to create a larger flowing paragraph?

References

Ref 2 is dead

On hold

That's all I could find, but overall it's a solid article. I split the references into two columns, if that's OK. I'll leave this article on hold for at least the standard seven days until all of the above are addressed. Thanks! ☯ Jaguar ☯ 20:46, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Close - not listed

I'm sorry to do this, but this has been inactive for the usual seven days and I'm going have to close this for now. This article isn't bad at all; if all of the above can be addressed then this should have no problem passing. If you do renominate, I'll be more than happy to take it again and pass it considering everything above would have been addressed. Regards ☯ Jaguar ☯ 22:38, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]