Talk:Dream Theater (album)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Retrohead (talk · contribs) 19:50, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Here's the review.

Intro

• "the same location" means the same studio, the same city, or both?
• It would be useful to mention the exact chart position, since you wrote it was the band's second highest charting album.

Background

• Is it better to replaced "wholly integrated" with "included"?
• I don't think I understand the first sentence from the third paragraph. Can you copyedit it to make it clearer?

Composition

• Guitar World should be italicized, and omit Petrucci's name because he was introduced in the previous section
• I see only the lyrics from "The Enemy Inside" are explained, but from the other tracks aren't. Do we have material about them?

Release

• Have you got second week sales, or sales in other countries except US, or maybe worldwide sales?
• It's useful to include Metacritic ranking, to know the album's overall critical reception.
• Since the maximum limit for critic reviews is 10, you can expand the prose with additional reviews.
• PopMatters doesn't use star-rating system.
• About the supporting tour, do you know what songs were featured in the setlist?

Charts

• The charts should feature the name of the company that compiles the list. For example, Australia should be Australian Albums Chart, and so on.
• The personnel is done properly, no complaints on that part.

References

• Do not use big letters in the titles, as you did in refs 3, 15, 33, and few others.
• Are there other sources available apart from John Petrucci's Facebook profile? I see it is used several times, but social media is generally not recommended.

I see the nominator has been sporadically active on Wikipedia lately, so I'll be archiving this.--Retrohead (talk) 10:49, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Made the easy edits. Will try and get the rest done over the next few days. Thanks!--Ktmartell (talk) 20:12, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

I finished the revisions. A few notes from me:

• I really struggled with the album charts, especially the non-English ones, and to be honest am not 100% sure I got the right names in every instance. If it's cleaner, I'd be happy to just remove all non-US charts.
• Replaced as many Facebook references as I could, and I don't think there are too many left. I believe those sources are OK as long as they are from verified accounts?
• No Metacritic page for this album, strangely, but added another review and expanded prose a bit

--Ktmartell (talk) 18:01, 31 January 2016 (UTC)