Talk:Captain Jack (Billy Joel song)/GA1


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GA Review
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This GA nomination is being failed for the following reasons:
 * Ideas are thrown together in places; the article doesn't flow well.
 * Almost nothing is mentioned of the song's recording. That's one of the major aspects deserving of coverage in a good article on a recorded song.
 * There are a few unsourced statements:
 * "mostly ignored LP"
 * "'Captain Jack' was immediately embraced by WMMR's audience."
 * "By 1980, 'Captain Jack' had mostly disappeared from Joel's concert setlists."
 * The Clinton campaign song section is borderline trivia and probably only deserves a brief mention while discussing the controversial nature of the lyrics.
 * While there isn't a content dispute among the editors of this article, there should be. An editor claiming to be Larry Russell has changed a number of referenced statements based on supposed first-hand knowledge.  He may well be Larry Russell and his additions may be accurate, but they constitute original research.
 * This is minor, but there are quite a few formatting issues with album and song titles.

These problems will surely take more than a week to address, so the nomination has to be failed for now. —Zeagler (talk) 03:36, 24 December 2008 (UTC)


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