Talk:M2M (band)/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Cartoon network freak (talk · contribs) 15:03, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Lead
 * The album was nominated for a Spellemannprisen award. They were signed to an international record deal with Atlantic Records in 1998 and subsequently changed their name to M2M. → The album was nominated for a Spellemannprisen award and the band changed their name to M2M after signing a record deal with Atlantic Records in 1998. ✅
 * A 'best of' album → A greatest hits album ✅

Infobox
 * You need references for the genres, instruments and labels (see this as an example) ✅
 * Use ... for genres, instruments and labels ✅

History
 * Rename this overall title in "Career" ✅
 * They formed a music duo they were eight → The two girls formed a music duo when they were eight ✅
 * At the time Raven was → comma after "time" ✅
 * After the album's release they started → For alternation: After the record's release, they started ✅
 * link "Atlantic Records" here to its respective article on Wiki ✅
 * As M2M their first → As M2M, their first ✅
 * It featured in the closing credits → It was featured in the closing credits ✅
 * the single was very successful → the single experienced commercial success (due to fancruft) ✅
 * It charted at No. 2 in Norway and No. 4 in both Australia and New Zealand → It charted at number two in Norway and at number four in both Australia and New Zealand ❌ - or for any similar requests. MOS:HASH says "No." is an acceptable format.
 * It was certified gold in both Australia → Additionally, it was certified Gold in both Australia ✅
 * US → write out to "United States" ✅
 * In November 1999 M2M → comma after "1999" ✅
 * of the TV series → remove "the" ✅
 * It was well received critically → You need a reference for this statement ✅
 * and reached No. 7 in Norway, No. 89 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on Top Heatseekers chart → and reached number seven in Norway, number 89 on the Billboard 200 and number one on its Top Heatseekers component chart.
 * Release year in brackets for "Mirror Mirror" ✅
 * certified gold in the US → certified Gold in the United States ✅
 * "Everything You Do" → release year in brackets ✅
 * reached No. 21 → reached number 21
 * Throughout 2000 M2M appeared → comma after "2000" ✅
 * high-schools across the US → write US out ✅
 * In September that year, they toured the US with Hanson → write US to "America" here for alternation ✅
 * performing as the boys' → performing as the band's ✅
 * Release year in brackets for "Everything" ✅
 * No. 6 in Norway and No. 27 → number six in Norway and number 27
 * Release year in brackets for "What You Do About Me" ✅
 * No. 46 → number 46
 * The track "Don't" was released in the US-only as a promo single → Another track, "Don't", was made available as a promotional single in the United States. ✅
 * singles in the US → write US out to America here ✅
 * The promotion for their second album including → The promotion for their second studio album included ✅
 * Following the appearance they were → comma before "they" ✅
 * then upcoming → then-upcoming ✅
 * songwriters in the US → write US out to United States ✅
 * 100,000 units in the US → write out to America here, for alternation ✅
 * record contract from Atlantic US → record contract from Atlantic ✅
 * Raven said that her and Larsen → Raven said that she and Larsen ✅
 * they had become quite different → Is this a quote? It sounds quite unencyclopedic
 * No. It's not a direct quote. The original source is in Norwegian. The Bing translation gives the text "We were like twins when we were kids, but that 18-year-olds we were very different". Can you suggest better wording for the article?


 * A 'best of' album → A greatest hits album ✅
 * M2M sold → As of 2013, M2M sold + do this in the lead, too ❌ I understand the source for 2 million is from 2013, but I think it's misleading to specify the year in the prose. M2M disbanded in 2002 and their 'best of' album was released in 2003. I seriously doubt M2M sold more than 1000 records between 2004 and 2013. I have a source that states they sold 1.5 million copies of their debut album by January 2002. What I'm saying is they would have sold those 2 million albums by 2004. Specifying 2013 makes it sound like they've still been selling records up until then, and also makes the article look somewhat out of date. It raises the question of how many albums they've sold in the four years since 2013 (again, I seriously doubt they've sold more than 100 since 2013, but that's beside the point). Is this really necessary?
 * Release year for "Break You" in brackets ✅
 * reaching No. 9 → reaching number nine
 * No. 1 in Norway → number one in the aforementioned territory. ✅
 * have reached No. 1 in Norway → have reached number one in Norway
 * Release year for "If a Song Could Get Me You" in brackets ✅
 * which also reached No. 1 → which also claimed the top spot ✅
 * 2nd picture > No.1 hits → number one hits

Critical response and musical style
 * rare amongst teen pop → rare among ✅
 * instrument prowess ... It's rare → ... to [...] ✅ (Changed to (...) as per MOS:ELLIPSIS)
 * In 1999 Stephanie McGrath → That same year, Stephanie McGrath ✅

Discography
 * The filed where the title of the respective album is placed needs to be darker, see this as an example. ❌ - I don't know how to change that. I'm not good with table codes.
 * You need something like an iTunes link to reference the albums were released (see this as an example) ✅ - but I had to shorten the first album to year only as I couldn't find a reliable source for the exact date
 * The countries don't need to be that thick (take example on the articles mentioned above; change the style of the tables if needed) ❌ - again, I don't know how to change that.
 * For the singles section, the title and year need to be switched (see this as an example.) ✅
 * You need refs for the singles as well (see this as an example) ✅
 * The maximum of countries is 10; you have 11 in the singles table ❌ - are you sure this is a CURRENT wiki policy? I seem to remember a consensus ruling against the maximum of ten countries some time ago.

Awards
 * Please make a table for the awards (see this as an example) ✅

References
 * norwegiancharts.com. (and other related links) → Norwegian Charts (no italic) ✅

Copy-violation
 * 21.9% is acceptable!

Images
 * Article is perfectly illustrated by images ;)

Links
 * No problems here!

References
 * As far as I checked them, the references do cover the assertations made in this article
 * No dead links! Good job!

Outcome
 * for 7 days! You've done a good job with this, but it needs some minor work before I'll pass it to GA status. Good luck with editing and best regards, Cartoon network freak (talk) 14:07, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much for the review. I fixed a couple things but I'll have to get back to this (and the Alexandra Stan review) after the weekend as I'm going away. Cheers. Freikorp (talk) 02:25, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I've tried to adderss everything. Please looks at my replies to the few things things I didn't change and let me know where you want to go from here. If you could help me fix the table I'd really appreciate it. Thanks again. Freikorp (talk) 12:52, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Gladly passing! Best, Cartoon network freak (talk) 08:52, 27 February 2017 (UTC)