Talk:Porcupine Tree/GA1

GA Review

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This article would need nearly a total rewrite before becoming worthy of GA. My foremost concerns are the quality of the sources and the cohesion of the prose.

Sourced information

• First paragraph of "On the Sunday of Life... and Up the Downstair (1991–1994)" is unsourced and should probably be combined with the one under it. Third and fourth paragraphs of the same section are also unsourced.
• Overall, there are very, very large chunks that are entirely or almost entirely unsourced.

Prose and MOS

• References are supposed to go after punctuation, not before it. Most are placed before the periods.
• "The track was too long to make it a radio hit, but it got good response from the underground music scene of the nineties, reaching the UK independent Top 20 singles list." is inappropriate tone.
• "The EP remains an extremely rare, collectible piece. It was composed of nine at-the-time-unreleased tracks, as a preview for the upcoming second album. The EP was followed, over the same year, by The Nostalgia Factory, an album that grew Porcupine Tree's underground fanbase, though the band still carried on the charade of being '70s rock legends." — unsourced, "charade of being 70s rock legends" is OR.
• "However, when the album eventually emerged in mid-1993 the decision not to include the single had slimmed down the album to a single record." — inappropriate tone
• Many paragraphs are very short and choppy. There are also many more issues with OR and tone such as above.

References

Numbers are as of this revision.

• The Roadrunner Records link, #3, does not cite its work or date.
• This, #4, is most likely not a RS.
• Ref #6, a PDF, does not load on my browser. This could be an error with my Firefox PDF plugin, though.
• This, #5, is most likely not a RS. This site is also used at #11, #13, #21
• This, #15, is most likely not a RS.
• This, #16, is most likely not a RS. It also does not credit the work.
• Ref #19, IMDb, is not a RS.
• Ref #20 (and #55), MySpace, is not a RS.
• This, #22, is a dead link.
• This, #23, is also a dead link.
• This, #24, gives me a "can't find the server" error.
• This, #26, is most likely not a RS.
• Source #29, last.fm, is definitely not a RS.
• This, source #31, is most likely not a RS.
• This, source #34, is hosted on a forum and probably shouldn't be used.
• This, source #35, is a screenshot hosted on tinypic, misleadingly listed as a BBC Radio One source. Could a better source be found for this info?
• This, source #36, is most likely not a RS. The same website is used at source #39, #40, #45.
• This, source #38, is most likely not a RS.
• This, source #43, is hosted on a forum.

I would also be a little bit leery of some of the interviews; while they do appear to be genuine, I have my doubts about the credibility of the sources (for instance, #56).

Reviewer: Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 17:58, 31 March 2010 (UTC)