Wikipedia:Featured article review/Pink Floyd


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

The article was removed by YellowAssessmentMonkey 02:34, 19 April 2009.

Review commentary
''attempted to notify User:Dharmabum420 as FAC nominator but he is blocked, notified User:Pigsonthewing, User:A Knight Who Says Ni, User:Anger22, and User:PurplePlatypus as significant contributors. Have also notified WikiProject Pink Floyd.''

A big Pink Floyd fan myself, it pains me to do this but I don't feel the article represents the best of Wikipedia. It was promoted in 2006, and things have moved along since that time.

Reasons not to be cheerful:


 * Poor standard of writing
 * "Roger Waters left Cambridge in 1962 to take architecture courses at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London" - what is Cambridge, and where was he taking these courses to?
 * "There he met his fellow student Nick Mason." - why did Mason belong to Waters?
 * "blues and folk guitarist and vocalist Syd Barrett joined the band. Waters then moved to bass and Wright to full time keyboards."
 * "When The Tea Set found themselves on the same bill as another band with the same name, Barrett came up with the alternative name The Pink Floyd Sound," - shouldn't those names be italicised?

There are more examples throughout the article - it would take far too long to list them here.


 * Linking problems
 * "joined the existing group, Sigma 6.[9] Sigma 6 was also" - overlinking
 * "The Sound was dropped fairly quickly, but the definite article was still used regularly until 1970" - 'the definite article' goes to a wiki grammar page.


 * Citations - a lack of citations on various paragraphs and sentences. Also, there are a great many sources that may not satisfy wp:reliable in the reference section.  Many citations are incorrectly formatted.

There may well be other problems, but I feel that at least for the reasons above, the status of this article should be reviewed. Parrot of Doom (talk) 20:32, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

FARC commentary

 * Suggested FA criteria concerns are citations and prose. Also note the recent change to WP:WIAFA (1c) requiring "high-quality" sources.  YellowMonkey  ( cricket calendar poll! '') 01:02, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delist, per FA criteria concerns. Cirt (talk) 04:06, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delist Reference and prose issues persist. It breaks my heart to do this to an article on one of my favorite bands of all time. :( Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 02:17, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delist. Unsourced claims, e.g. "ramshackle", "popularity". Unsourced quotes. DrKiernan (talk) 13:04, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
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