Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Revival (Selena Gomez 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 archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 03:33, 3 July 2017.

Revival (Selena Gomez album)

 * Nominator(s): LikeGaga (talk) 18:56, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

This article is about... a 2016 album released by American singer Selena Gomez. The album called attention from music critics, who considered "Revival" as a evolution and growth in Gomez' music. The article is well-written, containing information about its musicality and reception using reliable sources. I think this makes for a very good FAC. Please provide the issues you've found so I can fix them, I would appreciate any comments. Thank! :) LikeGaga (talk) 18:57 26 June 2017 (UTC)

There has been good work done with this article. These are the comments that I have noticed from my first pass through the article. Once they are addressed, I will read through the article one more time and either add another round of comments (if I find anything else that needs attention). I hope you find my comments to be helpful. I am a bit surprised to see this go directly into the FAC process rather than going through the GAN process first, but I admire your confidence. Since there are still a lot of edits being made to this article, I would suggest withdrawing this until you have the finalized version ready for review. By the point of the FAC, all of revisions and edits should already be completed. Aoba47 (talk) 16:07, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Comments from Aoba47
 * I believe that ALT text is required for both images in the infobox. Make sure that each image in this article has appropriate ALT text.
 * I do not believe Mexico needs a link.
 * Reference 63 is a redirect to the website's main page and either needs to be replaced with a new site or an archived version of the old site.
 * Reference 80 is dead and requires attention and revision.
 * In the sentence "However, for health reasons, it was canceled in August 2016", please be more specific on what you mean by "health reasons".
 * It may be beneficial to the article to add an audio sample, specifically in the "Composition" section or the "Singles" section. Multiple audio samples be helpful, but I think at least one would be useful (as long as it supported by critical commentary on something dealing with the sound and/or lyrics).
 * For the phrase (After promoting the song during the 2014 American Music Awards), it sounds better to say "After performing the song" as "promoting" sounds a little strange in this context.
 * For the caption (Gomez specified Christina Aguilera (pictured) as a source of inspiration while recording Revival.), I would specify that she is referencing a very particular album/type of music in Aguilera's career.
 * The image of Aguilera is not necessary. When looking at the source, I can see that Gomez is citing Aguilea's album and not Aguilera as an artist on her own. The addition of the picture leads to potential confusion between the two ideas and I would advise you to remove it. Even if you decide against this, the caption still needs work (as I have suggested in the above comment).
 * Add the release year for the complication album For You and its lead single. I would advise that you make sure that whenever you mention a song or an album that you always include somewhere the year in which it was released.
 * This is more of a stylistic choice, but I have seen the "Songs and lyrical content" section more frequently titled as the "Composition" section.
 * You frequently overlink songs to their respective articles. Something should only be linked upon its first mention in the body of the article (i.e. "Same Old Love" being linked multiple times in the "Release and artwork" section). Go through the entire article and make sure to correct this. You also do the same for terms such as "electropop" and "dance-pop". Remember things should only be linked on their first mention.
 * Here is another example of my above comment in this phrase "visuals for Stripped by Christina Aguilera (2002)". You have already linked both Stripped and Aguilera in a previous section so you need to unlink both and remove the year (which should be after the album and not the singer anyway) as this was already raised in an above section as well.
 * This bit ", where she also gave an interview." is irrelevant to the actual article and can be removed.
 * This sentence (as well as the full television debut of "Hands to Myself") is a bit confusing as it was not made immediately clear that the previous mentions of her performances of the song were in a shortened form.
 * Add more information to the "Kill Em with Kindness" portion of the "Singles" subsection regarding its commercial performance and release (i.e. music video, etc.).
 * The placement of the information on her desire to release "Sober" as a single and the promotional single "Me & the Rhythm" is a little awkwardly placed in the subsection. I would move this information prior to the second single as the promotional single was released prior to "Same Old Love". I would also think more critically about where to put the sentence for "Sober" so it flows the best with the information around it.
 * If you are going to mention information about the tour's cancellation in the lead, it should also be found somewhere in the body of the article as well.
 * When looking at the "Critical reception" section, I would advise that you use this resource to "[d]ecide on an organizational approach, and assemble the quotes into paragraphs on that basis". The section right now seems more like a random arrangement of the critics' reviews and organizing this by theme/topic or going from positive to negative would be extremely helpful to having the reader make sense of this as a cohesive narrative.
 * There are citation needed tags for the Japanese tour edition track listing and the Japanese tour edition DVD track listing
 * Avoid shouting in the reference titles (putting titles in all caps). One example is Reference 6.
 * The chart in the "Release history" section appears incomplete as I would imagine that this received a larger release than that.
 * While looking through the revision history statistics, I became a little concerned when I noticed that you are not listed as one of the top editor's of this article. This appears like a premature FAC so I was wondering if you checked in with any of the article's major editors before putting this up? had previously contacted me about wanting to put this up for GAN so I would like to get his feedback on this nomination if possible.

Ian Rose (talk) 03:33, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.