Talk:The Day Before You Came/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: MarioSoulTruthFan (talk · contribs) 14:40, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Overall

To begin with the article does not comply with any of the six good article criteria. Firsly, it is not well written as it has spelling mistakes, repitiion of sentences ""The Day Before You Came" was released in October 1982, as both the first new song from ABBA's double compilation album The Singles: The First Ten Years, and also as a single.[8] The single was officially released on 18 October 1982". I mean, the official dante once is enough. It does not comply with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections and layout as some sections have monstrous paragraphs such as the Analysys and Critical reception and other very short ones, as an example Recording, Writing and Develompent that could be a whole section called "Background" or any other word in that vein. The lead should be a summary of the entire article, now way you are doing that with only two sentences.

Secondly, it has tags of citation needed and the Personnel and Chart section are lacking references (on the latter they are all a mess). On top of that take a closer look at the table section regarding the charts, this is not it. So I can say it is not verifiable. Some sources not from reliable sources, for instance google translate, wordpress (blog), Songs meaning and very likely others. It contains copyright violations and plagiarism according to Earwig's Copyvio Detector from The Guardian and News.com.au, the other two sources are not reliable. Despite all of this, the article is quite broad in its coverage, neverhtless, it does not stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail, take a look at the Analysis and Critical reception section. It might be bias as the critical reception only features positive reviews, no mixed or negative which is quite odd. It is indeed stable for now and is indded illustreated and the audio sample complies with the lenght of the wikipedia policy for tracks longer than five minutes.

This article is no way, shape or form to be a GA. On a final note, take a closer look at other GA's and FA's article so you have an idea of what a GA article is and needs. Failing, if you need anything else please let me know. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 21:10, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you.--Oneiros (talk) 22:00, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It has spelling mistakes? You'd obviously know about that then! Tuzapicabit (talk) 22:04, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]