Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/The Top 50 Albums of the Year/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 not promoted by The Rambling Man 14:04, 22 July 2012.

The Top 50 Albums of the Year

 * Nominator(s): MatheusLPereira (talk) 01:23, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured list because I think it meets the criteria in general. I'm interested in music criticism, so making this list was enjoyable and worthwhile. --MatheusLPereira (talk) 01:23, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Comments - there's an awful lot of rather tortured English, to wit.....
 * determined by a votation realized by the editors - there's no such word as "votation", better would be "determined by a vote conducted among the site's editors"
 * The list is organized since 1999, resulting in 13 editions, from the first year to 2011. - better would be "the list has been published annually since 1999", the bit about there being 13 editions is unnecessary IMO
 * In 2000, the site made a Top 20 - "made" is a bit weak, better would be "in 2000 the list was expanded to a top 20"
 * In 2002 they began the Top 50 format that continues until now - better would be "in 2002 the list was further expanded to a top 50 and has remained in that format"
 * Bon Iver was placed number-one with their self-titled album - here Bon Iver is being treated as both plural and singular in the same sentence, you need to pick one and stick with it. So either "Bon Iver was placed number-one with its self-titled album" (sounds terrible to me but might be correct in American English) or "Bon Iver were placed number-one with their self-titled album"
 * Thom Yorke, the vocalist of Radiohead, the awarded band in 2000 for their album Kid A. - I would replace "the awarded band" with "winners". Also, as the article seems to be written in American English, should Radiohead not be treated as a singular noun (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm British......)

Hope this helps -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:37, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. I corrected all the mistakes. Thanks, man, sorry about that. English is not my native language, so I ended up making some confusion in grammar and agreement. See ya! --MatheusLPereira (talk) 14:19, 29 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Comments
 * The clumsy lead needs a copyedit.
 * Partially done. --MatheusLPereira (talk) 13:18, 30 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Use n-dashes (–) for year ranges instead of m-dashes. See WP:NDASH.
 * Done. --MatheusLPereira (talk) 13:18, 30 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Table currently does not meet WP:DTT.
 * Why not? Could you specify the flaw in question? --MatheusLPereira (talk) 13:18, 30 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Otherwise not bad.-- GoP T C N 12:39, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the comments! --MatheusLPereira (talk) 13:18, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Strong oppose: without independent, reliable sources, this article does not pass WP:Notability. This article is about Pitchfork's annual best-album list, so Pitchfork itself cannot be used as a source to determine this list's notability. However this article uses only Pitchfork sources.—indopug (talk) 09:45, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll provide external sources as far as I can. --Matheus Pereira (talk / contribs) 00:42, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Hello Matheus, it's been nearly a week, can you confirm that you will be providing some third-party verifiable refs to substantiate the notability of this list or would you rather withdraw it? The Rambling Man (talk) 10:56, 17 July 2012 (UTC)


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