Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Kala (album)/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 Karanacs 19:23, 3 November 2009.

Kala (album)

 * Nominator(s): ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:30, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because I got M.I.A.'s first album to FA some months back, and feel this article is now of comparable quality. I think I've taken care of alt text, reliability and correct formatting of refs, correct licensing of images, etc, so all that remains is for people to pick my prose apart :-) ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:30, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Source comments Dabs and links fine. Current refs: What makes this reliable (used three separate times in refs 32, 43, 47)? Other comments
 * http://s26928.gridserver.com/info/?m=200705
 * It's part of her official site - if you go to http://www.miauk.com (apologies for any retinal damage that may be caused by looking at her website) and then click on "news" it takes you to the blog. To link directly to specific pages for earlier months, though, you have to use the gridserver URLs
 * Fair enough. I am now blind but was wondering why you haven't merged all three refs into one as they all have the same url address. RB88 (T) 13:16, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Done -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 13:47, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Good job. As an aside, I spoke to her on the tube today (no joke). RB88 (T)
 * Ref 1 needs an author.
 * Done
 * Ref 9's author is Robert Christgau (add it), but then you have to replace either that ref or the MSN Music one as they're written by the same author. The infobox reviews need POV spread.
 * Done - removed double Christgau review and inserted a less favourable one into the infobox
 * Ref 16's work is simply Remix.
 * Done
 * Ref 53's work is simply Stylus.
 * Done
 * Replace ref 74 with this as it's more notable due to being an awarding body.
 * Done
 * Replace ref 77 with the official Irish IRMA archive here.
 * Done
 * Using the "work. publisher" citing convention has ruined the refs' consistency. Either follow it for all refs or remove it for the ones you've used it on. It also throws up problems with web-only media like PopMatters being italicised.
 * All done now, I think, let me know if I missed any or got any wrong......
 * WP:CHARTS limits the amounts of chart positions to 10 charts and 8 auxiliary charts. Remove some in the list.
 * Done
 * Try and put the Personnel section in two columns for enhanced readability.
 * Done

RB88 (T) 20:36, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for your comments, I have addressed some and will get to the rest tomorrow, as right now the wife's badgering me to get off the computer and give her a foot rub :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:29, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Some more done now -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:31, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * All done now -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:50, 15 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Image review - All images check out. Awadewit (talk) 02:50, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
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