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The Script
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because I want to know on which parts of the article needs improvement since I'm working on this to become a GA. I replaced a couple of references already and is in the process of expansion. Any advice would be helpful :)

Thanks, Hallows AG  ( talk ) 08:50, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi, here's my 2p worth SheffGruff (talk) 01:14, 24 July 2013 (UTC) :

Overview: Generally the article's contents focus on details of the three albums, with a series of often rather dry facts about them w.r.t sales, chart positions or awards. If the independent content is out there, then the biography section could really do with being expanded as the human interest side of things is what will make the article more rewarding to read. Even though there's a seperate article on it, more of the details from MyTown should be included in this article to provide a story. If you can find the sources, it would be worth adding content to the album sections from interviews with the band about said album.

Infobox "associated acts" listing for Will I am, BoB should be removed as per Template:Infobox_musical_artist - One-time collaboration for a single, or on a single song should be avoided. The reference for will.Ia.m is missing in the body text though and should be moved into there. The one off single rule probably extends to the inclusion of Justice as well but as there is no reference to this (which is also a problem) so I cannot be sure. MyTown should stay as The Script were spun out of this band.

Biography: "Danny O'Donoghue and Mark Sheehan have been best friends since they were 12 growing up in Dublin." poor English - consider "since they were 12 and grew up together in Dublin" for example. The section mentions that they "got a record deal until the company dropped them". This should state when they got a record deal, who it was with, and when/why it was dropped. Everyone who has a record deal has it until they get dropped!

Los Angeles, not "the Los Angeles".

"learned to play drums when he was just eight and he had been playing sessions from the age of fifteen" is not very encylopaedic - it doesn't give the reader any clue as to how good he was at eight years old and it is not unusual for people to start learning instruments at a young age. "started to learn from the age of eight" would be more appropriate. There's also no reference telling the reader when he started to learn, that he was a session musician at 15 or how much money he was (or wasn't) earning from it.

2008-2010 The Script: I seem sceptical that RTE2 FM, Today FM and Jo Whiley all have an identically named "Single of the Day" radio feature and it isn't sourced - except by a dead link. Most (daytime) BBC Radio 1 presenters rarely "heavily support" bands beyond playing whatever is on the A/B/C playlists - which they are required to play.

The article makes a claim an album was an "instant success" in Irish singles chart, but doesn't provide any facts, figures or references to support this. The same paragraph then goes on to talk about a chart entry at number 40, suggesting a not so instant success, until you get to the end of the sentence and realise it was referring to Russia. Some re-working of this paragraph is needed.

"They played among big stars including Enrique Iglesias and Anastacia." - "Big Star" is not encyclopaedic. There is also no need to describe the concerts at NY Citi Field as "historic". MOS:OPED

2010-11 Science and Faith: Second paragraph contains no references despite lots of contentious claims about ticket sales and how quickly they sold. Also includes the phrase "to date" which doesn't help with RELTIME

Paragraph 3 mentions BRMB which will be meaningless to anyone that hasn't had the misfortune of picking up West Midlands TV adverts for a certain radio station. It also makes various claims that they "will perform at...." (using future tense) despite the fact that the section heading time window cuts off at 2011 (now 2 years ago) and thus these dates are most certainly in the past.

Biggest indoor crowd of 18,300 is not backed up by a reference and is contentious. Should also be the "largest" crowd IMO.

Images: Article is generally lacking images - much of the article covers the albums, so album cover art would be appropriate if it could be reproduced within wikipedia's copyright restrictions. Photos of the band members would also be helpful.

Audio: As this article is about a band some audio clips are essential. Again this is fraught with copyright issues but as per the Radiohead article it can be done - see for example File:Radiohead - Creep (sample).ogg.

Page is missing a "See Also" section, which could be used to link to the band "Mytown".

Template at bottom of page: Includes Mytown in the category of "Other Albums" but this was an album by a different band and doesn't belong in a "The Script" template. Inclusion of the band in the "related articles" area is suitable but the album is not.

Technical tools:
 * Final BBC News reference in the "2008–10: The Script" section should use a proper cite tag inside of a plain URL in the ref tags.
 * Independent reference number 31 "script find a voice" should be cite news not cite web.
 * Alejandro link should be in a cite tag but is also probably not considered to be a reliable source as it is a linked in page. Find an independent source confirming he played keys if possible.
 * Images (including those in infoboxes) should make use of the alt tag for the blind/text only browsers as per: WP:ALT
 * Link to 90210 doesn't point to the specific article, but to a disambiguation page.
 * Links to Mark Sheehan and Glen Power should be removed as they point back to this page.
 * 7 Dead links according to http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webchecklinks.py?page=The_Script that need removing or redirecting to an internet archive site.