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Pet Shop Boys discography
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because I have done alot of work improving this article recently, sourcing, formatting, layout content etc and would like some idea on how to improve it before nominating for FL. Especially with the lead.

Thanks, Mister sparky (talk) 19:03, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Brianboulton comments: The lists are excellent, but I found the lead rather heavy going. There are numerous individual prose points that need fixing, but I wonder, is there any way it could be made a bit more interesting, or at least a bit more varied? Also, I notice that most featured discographies have considerably shorter leads. Here are some individual points, but really, the whole thing needs working on.
 * Lead prose
 * First line: "comprises" a better word than "contains"
 * Second line: "a number of" is rather vague. Also, I'm not sure that "appearances" is the right word here
 * "Parlophone Records released the duo's debut album, Please, in the United Kingdom in March 1986." Wouldn't it be better to follow this sentence with the album's history, rather than inserting a couple of sentences about the duo's debut single before returning to the album?
 * "After the success of Please they released..." "They" needs to be specified (e.g. "the duo")
 * "...a duet with Dusty Springfield" Can a duo have a "duet" with someone else?
 * The sentence beginning "In the summer of 1987..." has two "ands" in it, and needs to be split.
 * Two "ands" in the following sentence as well. This time you need to rephrase
 * Another two "ands" in each of the first and second sentences of paragraph 2. This is something of a style habit, which needs to be avoided. In the second sentence, "peaked" not "peak"
 * "In 1993 the Pet Shop Boys infamously re-invented their image..." Why was their re-invention "infamous", which  means disreputable, shameful, dissgraceful, scandalous etc?
 * "...the only Pet Shop Boys album, so far, to ever reach number one in the UK." You can't have "so far" and "ever" together. Delete "ever".
 * "The following year they released the 1994 Comic Relief single, "Absolutely Fabulous", under the artist name of 'Absolutely Fabulous'." Is there a less clunky way of giving this information?
 * "best-of", an informal expression, should be in quotes.
 * "Then in December 2009..." Delete "Then".

Brianboulton (talk) 22:30, 19 May 2010 (UTC)


 * thank you! as usual your comments are very helpful and make alot of sense :) Mister sparky (talk) 23:05, 19 May 2010 (UTC)