Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Eazy-E/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted by SandyGeorgia 03:02, 8 April 2011.

Eazy-E

 * Nominator(s): Crowz  RSA  19:47, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because I feel that it is very close to meeting the criteria, and only needs a bit of attention from FAC reviewers to be a FA. It is a fairly short article, I know, but this is really all the information on Eazy-E, since he only lived to be 31. In November 2010, before I started working on the article, it looked like this, and needed a lot of work to meet even the B-class criteria. Now, it has surpassed GA requirements and I believe it meets the FA criteria. Thank you, Crowz  RSA  19:47, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Oppose on sourcing at this time. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:55, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * In general, citation formatting needs cleanup for consistency and accuracy. For example, I think there's a typo in the first ref
 * Use a consistent date formatting
 * Newspapers should be italicized
 * Be consistent in what is wikilinked when
 * What makes this a [[WP:RS|reliable source]? Also, where do you see a reference to Pareles in the biography?
 * Date for ref 11?
 * Retrieval dates are not required for weblinks to print-based sources, but if you use them you must do so consistently
 * Spell out or link potentially unfamiliar acronyms like RIAA
 * "Up for Discussion Jump to Forums"?
 * Allmusic or AllMusic or allmusic?
 * Be consistent in how multiple authors are notated
 * Greenwood or Greenwood Publishing Group? Check for other naming inconsistencies
 * Refs 29 and 30 lead to the same site, but are formatted completely differently. Also, why not cite this to the original publication?
 * Ref 7: volume/issue number? Check for others
 * Ref 33: title?
 * Combine identical refs
 * Ref 49: retrieval date
 * Why is "While Knight had sought an outright release from Ruthless Records for Dr. Dre, the JDL and Ruthless Records management negotiated a release in which the record label would continue to receive money and publishing rights from future Dr. Dre projects with Death Row Records, founded by Dr. Dre with Suge Knight" cited to ref 31 twice? That site doesn't really support most of the sentence
 * Spotchecks found some instances of material unsupported by the source used to cite it. Some examples: "he openly associated with other Crips"; "co-found Ruthless Records with Jerry Heller"; "executives Mike Klein and Jerry Heller sought assistance from the Jewish Defense League"; "this provided Ruthless Records with leverage to enter into negotiations with Death Row Records over Dr. Dre's departure". Nikkimaria (talk) 13:55, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment: no dabs, one dead link found and repaired. Jezhotwells (talk) 02:03, 3 April 2011 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.