Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Harry Styles discography/archive1


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

The list was promoted by PresN via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 16 March 2021 (UTC).

Harry Styles discography

 * Nominator(s): Ashley  yoursmile!  15:47, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

I am nominating Harry Styles discography for featured list because it is sourced, well-organised, and easy to navigate through. I have spent quite some time in expanding and cleaning up the article, which I now believe meets the featured list criteria. This is my first featured list nomination and also my first time working on a discography. For reference, I've used both Meghan Trainor discography and Bruno Mars discography. I look forward to the comments. Ashley yoursmile!  15:47, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Support – top-notch work, especially for a first FL and first discography. Nice job! RunningTiger123 (talk) 18:50, 24 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Comments
 * "he left its management and signed a recording contract" - I would omit the bit about the management, it's pretty trivial
 * "both of which became top-ten hits on several single charts" => "both of which became top-ten hits on several singles charts"
 * "Styles became the first British male artist to have two first albums" - "two first albums"? Not sure what this means
 * I changed it to "first two albums". Does it read alright now? Ashley  yoursmile!  18:22, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * It should have been his first two albums. I have fixed that for you -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 18:57, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * You're right. My bad. Thank you for the fix. Ashley  yoursmile!  19:31, 22 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Notes which are sentence fragments should not have a full stop. This applies to A, B, C, D.
 * That's all I got on a first pass - great work! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 17:06, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello ChrisTheDude, thank you for the comments. I've implemented all the changes. Ashley  yoursmile!  18:19, 22 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 18:57, 22 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Support from MaranoFan
 * Support - I have read it a few times and determined that it meets the criteria.--NØ 02:51, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the support, MaranoFan! Ashley  yoursmile!  05:16, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Support from HĐ


 * Avoid phrasings like "commercial success"/"moderate success" as it is potentially POV. Mentioning chart positions should be sufficient for readers to understand how successful the single(s) was/were
 * I have removed "commercial success" completely, and rephrased the "moderate success" part. I don't think chart positions for these two singles deserve to be mentioned. Ashley  yoursmile!  11:47, 24 January 2021 (UTC)


 * "quintuple platinum" → "five times platinum" is easier to understand
 * changed. Ashley  yoursmile!  11:47, 24 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Otherwise the list is ready for FL. Great work! HĐ (talk) 10:39, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the comments, HĐ. Ashley  yoursmile!  11:47, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Source review by Bilorv

With only one factual inaccuracy (if I'm correct about that one) in the spotchecks and no sources I could identify as unreliable, it's looking very good, but I hope the comments above can make it even better. — Bilorv ( talk ) 16:04, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Bilorv, thank you for the comments. I've implemented some of them and left comments for the rest. Let me know what you think. -- Ashley yoursmile!  06:49, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I won't be happy to support with the linkrot issues remaining, though it's not enough to oppose over either. I suppose that puts me at Neutral for the time being and another source review would be needed for this nomination to pass. I'm not assessing things based on FLs promoted in 2012 or whether something is a template or whether a WikiProject considers something okay, but by the featured list criteria as applied to the rendered output of the page (and this touches on stability and verifiability). You may think "of course the BPI website isn't just going to go down" but I've seen enough broken references added to Wikipedia in 2005 by people making similar assumptions to think that it is a possiblility worth taking into account. Thank you for applying the other suggestions I made and for your improvements to the list. — Bilorv ( talk ) 13:13, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Bilorv, so I worked hard and linked all the BPI certifications separately to the respective pages, like you suggested. Just one thing, I haven't been able to archive three ref.s: "Kiwi", "Golden", and "Sweet Creature", the wayback machine is taking a lot of time to archive these manually. Can you please run the bot and fix these, if that's not a problem? Otherwise, I'm going to try tomorrow. -- Ashley yoursmile!  19:00, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I've tried to change the Italian citations too—please make fixes or let me know if any of these have mistakes in them. You can use IABot by clicking "Fix dead links" in the page history (which also runs automatically periodically, see ). It fixed two of those but doesn't like "Golden" (nor does Wayback Machine directly), so it's fine to leave this be—maybe next time the bot runs it'll work it out. Not including a paragraph about accolades is personal taste so I'm happy to Support. — Bilorv ( talk ) 21:10, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Bilorv, thank you very much for the support, and for changing the Italian sources. I've archived the ref. for "Golden" manually and formatted the Italian citations for consistency. -- Ashley yoursmile!  05:18, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Comments
 * Some of the refs are subscription only, e.g. the NYT, so there's a url-access=subscription parameter for those.
 * done.


 * " where it was certified platinum" it was certified platinum in all of these or just the US, I can't quite tell what the sentence is saying.
 * I meant to say that it was certified platinum in the US. Not sure how to rephrase this, please feel free to reword it accordingly.


 * You use US and UK before going onto United States and United Kingdom...
 * That's because the name of the chart is "UK Singles Chart", following the same pattern I've mentioned "US" before "Billboard Hot 100"


 * "reached moderate peaks" that's relatively meaningless...
 * removed.


 * EP should be used in the lead after extended play as the EP abbreviation is used in the infobox without explanation.
 * added EP in brackets in the lead.


 * Ref 24 should use a spaced en-dash, not a spaced hyphen.
 * done.


 * " Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana." is linked in the refs twice, looks like you're using the "link once, first time" paradigm so check that and others.
 * Thanks for noticing, removed the target on latter.


 * Although Recorded Music NZ looks like it's linked every time...
 * That's because it uses the "cite certification" template. Probably the same reason why "Recording Industry Association of America" or "Music Canada" appears to be linked every time.

That's all I have on a first pass. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!&#33;!&#33;) 23:38, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Pick one strategy and go with it.
 * Hello The Rambling Man, thank you for the comments. I've implemented some of the changes and left a few comments above. -- Ashley yoursmile!  10:01, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I'm not keen on different citation styles within a single article, let alone featured material. I would avoid using bespoke citation templates which cause problems like inconsistent formatting, or else get those templates modified to include parameters which allow you to unlink publishers (for instance) as required.  The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!&#33;!&#33;) 10:07, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
 * The Rambling Man, linked on every ref. Let me know if anything else needs to done. Thanks, -- Ashley yoursmile!  10:49, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Promoting. -- Pres N  23:17, 15 March 2021 (UTC)


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