Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Maya (M.I.A. album)/archive2


 * 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 promoted by SandyGeorgia 03:20, 3 April 2011.

Maya (M.I.A. album)

 * Nominator(s): ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:49, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Second go-round for this article at FAC. Last time it got two supports and no opposes, but didn't quite manage to squeeze over the line, maybe that'll be different this time ;-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:49, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Sources comments: Sources were checked out at the last FAC. There have been a few changes since then, but nothing significant. My only query is that refs 107 and 108 appear to be identical, so why the double cite in the "Accolades" section? Otherwise sources and citations are all OK. Brianboulton (talk) 11:45, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The two refs actually go to different pages on the NME website but the pages have identical titles, hence why the cites look the same........ -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:20, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * OK, I see that now. Maybe add ("Born Free") and ("XXXO") to the respective titles to signigy the difference? Brianboulton (talk) 17:15, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Done -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:46, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Images Infobox Comments The Rambling Man (talk) 19:40, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Would a short fair-use music clip be worthwhile? Not required, just a thought
 * Unfortunately I have neither the technical know-how nor the required software to add a music clip in the format WP requires...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:46, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * "M.I.A. promoted the album with a headline performance at The Big Chill in August 2010" - article text says that she performed, but doesn't say that she headlined - is there a source for that?
 * Amended -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:46, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Images themselves are unproblematic, fair-use rationale for cover image is adequate. Nikkimaria (talk) 21:08, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for your comments -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:46, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Just a minor comment: would it be incorrect to add Vicki Leekx as succeeding album in the "M.I.A. chronology"-part of the infobox? VL links to Maya as its precedent. Mottenen (talk) 21:23, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Done -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:10, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Any need to link Los Angeles? No big deal, but we seem to be in the market for delinking places like London and Paris so I don't see why LA should stay linked...
 * "was simultaneously released" not quite a split infinitive, but...
 * I think New York Times is actually The New York Times. (couple of these)
 * N.E.E.T. doesn't redirect in the lead but it does in the infobox.
 * Mildly interesting that you call her British in the lead, but British-Tamil in the opening sentence of the Compo section. Not wishing to be deliberately difficult, but......!
 * Derek Miller has an article, Derek E. Miller redirects to Sleigh Bells.  Can we fix this?
 * Our article for Food Inc is called "Food, Inc."
 * No reason to call Hard HARD...
 * "M.I.A.'s move was brilliant" suspect if this is a direct quote, you need quote marks around "brilliant".
 * Charts table is initially sorted incorrectly if you're doing it by the Chart column.
 * All done apart from the last one. Maybe it's too early in the morning, but the sorting looks OK to me........ -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:10, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Sort by chart and the two US charts move above the two UK ones, from their initial "sorted" order. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:19, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Gotcha - resolved by taking out the dots in "U.S." -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:43, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Support I have no problems backing this as part of finest work. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:09, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Support Looks good enough for an FA status. Novice7 (talk) 06:25, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Weak support. Comments. Switched to weak support; the prose is not outstanding but I think it is good enough. Per this note on FAC talk, I have posted my comments to this FAC's talk page. This is an experiment to see if it makes the FAC easier to understand and navigate for the delegates, but if you don't like the effect, let me know and I'll move the comments back here. Mike Christie (talk – library) 22:15, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The experiment worked :) Thanks! Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 02:49, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for those comments, I have to go out now but I will hopefully get to them later today or tomorrow. Cheers!  -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:45, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Comments by Axl.

In "Music and lyrics", paragraph 2, "Lovealot" is spelt with an "e" twice. Later in the article, there is no "e". Axl ¤  [Talk]  08:48, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps you would consider adding alternative text to the pictures? Axl ¤  [Talk]  08:49, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Spelling of "Lovalot" corrected. I thought alt text was no longer a requirement for FAC, but will work on it later today -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:18, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. You may well be right about alt text not being required. Axl  ¤  [Talk]  09:20, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

From "Promotion", paragraph 3: "In November 2010 she appeared on "Later...with Jools Holland" on British television, performing "It Takes a Muscle" with members of The Specials and "Born Free"." M.I.A. didn't perform with "Born Free". Did she perform "Born Free" with The Specials? Axl ¤  [Talk]  09:22, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Rectified -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:57, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Ellipses should have spaces, and WP:NBSP work needed. Unclear why you use cite news for sources like BBC, and cite web for other online news sources. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 03:00, 3 April 2011 (UTC)


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