Talk:Ace Young/GA1

GA Reassessment
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This article is undergoing a reassessment as part of the GA sweeps performed by the Good Article Project Quality taskforce in order to ensure that it still meets the requirements for Good Article status.

A quick glance at the article reveals numerous problems:


 * 1) The lead is too short and does not adequately summarize the article.
 * 2) The first and third paragraph in the "American Idol" section are unreferenced.
 * 3) The "Post-Idol" section is clearly thrown together, as it is a series of disjointed sentences. Most of the information, while important to the article, is unreferenced.
 * 4) The second, third, fourth, and fifth sentences in "Personal life" are unreferenced.
 * 5) The performance of his two singles is not mentioned in the prose (and is not referenced in the "Discography" section).
 * 6) Many of the references are dead links (see . In addition, many of them are missing important information. At minimum, they should contain a title, publisher, url and access date (preferably using the "cite web" template). References consisted simply of urls are often subject to linkrot, as shown above).
 * 7) The reliability of some of the references is dubious. What makes tv.com reliable? Likewise with aceyoungfans.com, the blog section of rockymountainnews.com, realityblurred.com
 * 8) Reference 13 simply points to American Idol's news page. Since the page is updated regularly, whatever story this was supposed to link to is no longer shown.

I feel that this would take a lot of work to get back up to GA standards. I will place it on hold for one week, however, to give a chance for improvements to be made. If the article cannot be improved to meet the GA criteria, however, it will be delisted. Best wishes, GaryColemanFan (talk) 06:56, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * There has been no response, and this article is not particularly close to meeting GA standards, so I am closing this reassessment and delisting the article. It may be renominated again in the future, but the above list should be used as a guide for the minimum improvements necessary before nomination. Best wishes, GaryColemanFan (talk) 01:31, 21 August 2009 (UTC)