Talk:Miley Cyrus/GA2

GA Review
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Reviewer: Jaguar (talk · contribs) 20:54, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

I'll take up this review. Given the huge scope of this article I will leave down some initial comments within 48 hours. I mainly focus on copy editing issues. Thanks! ☠ Jag  uar  ☠ 20:54, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria
 * 1) Is it reasonably well written?
 * A. Prose quality:
 * B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists:
 * 1) Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
 * A. References to sources:
 * B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:
 * C. No original research:
 * 1) Is it broad in its coverage?
 * A. Major aspects:
 * B. Focused:
 * 1) Is it neutral?
 * Fair representation without bias:
 * 1) Is it stable?
 * No edit wars, etc:
 * 1) Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
 * A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
 * B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
 * 1) Overall:
 * Pass or Fail:
 * 1) Is it stable?
 * No edit wars, etc:
 * 1) Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
 * A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
 * B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
 * 1) Overall:
 * Pass or Fail:
 * B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
 * 1) Overall:
 * Pass or Fail:
 * Pass or Fail:

Lead

 * Everything is good here, the lead definitely complies per the GA criteria and WP:LEAD.
 * There are citations in the lead but this can be accepted as it is referencing awards.

Life and career

 * "Billy Ray adopted Trace and Brandi, Tish's young son and daughter from a previous relationship" - I know the name 'Tish' is mentioned a lot in this whole section but does it have to be there and is it her mother's real name? I was just asking? ✅ - I replaced "Tish" with "Cyrus's mother". Didn't remove the parts of her in the section because it seems like she made important career decisions for Miley LADY LOTUS • TALK
 * "The song also had success in countries such as the UK and Ireland" - it would be best if these were linked appropriately as United Kingdom and Ireland ✅
 * "The second and final single "Who Owns My Heart" was released in select European countries." - why was this? And what countries were they if the information is there?

Artistry

 * "In their review of the first Hannah Montana soundtrack, The Star Scoop described the songs" - this doesn't explain what The Star Scoop is to reader unfamiliar with this. ✅ Removed as it is not a notable company so doesn't make sense to have it in the article
 * "Cyrus is a contralto, and with a "Nashville twang" in both her speech and singing voice" - what does Nashville twang mean? ✅ - Comment I added a wiki link to 'twang' so users can see what 'twang' means, so maybe done? I can explain further if need be LADY LOTUS • TALK

Public image

 * "On November 10, 2013, while accepting the Best Video award at the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards, Cyrus smoked what appeared to be a joint (cannabis cigarette) " - assuming that the reader already knows what a joint is, there would be no need to explain it in brackets ('joint' is already linked!) ✅ Removed the redundant "(cannabis cigarette)"

On hold
This is an excellent article gaining 412093 views within the last 30 days making it one of the 300 most viewed articles on Wikipedia. I took a lot of time to read through this article and have to say that the prose is excellent considering that a lot of this article comes from quotes alone. Every reference I checked has been attended to (which was the reason why it failed the previous GAN). The prose flows well into each other sentence making it easy to read and complying per the GA criteria. The only minor issues I found this article are some very minor copy editing issues, once they are addressed I will be happy to give this article its well deserved GA status. I'll put this on hold for seven days until those issues have been taken care of. ☠ Jag  uar  ☠ 20:56, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for addressing all of those points. The copyediting side of this review is done, but I think once you can address those referencing issues from Status this will achieve GA! ☠ Jag  uar  ☠ 21:41, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Close - promoted
There has been a lot of work put into replacing and finding new references and I want to congratulate that as thanks to these recent efforts this article now meets the GA criteria. The prose is in good shape, the lead complies per WP:LEAD and the whole article has definitely improved since the last GAR. Since all of these issues have been addressed to I would say that this article is on the road to FA - I can imagine Miley Cyrus being a featured article. Well done on all the extra work!! ☠ Jag  uar  ☠ 16:11, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Note: For some of the claims regarding some of the sources that were used in the Miley Cyrus article, see here and here. Flyer22 (talk) 11:33, 20 May 2014 (UTC)