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The Singles 1992–2003
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because along with Return of Saturn I am attempting to push it to FA status to maintain the No Doubt albums topic as an FT.

Thanks, Tezero (talk) 20:45, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

, but I won't be able to post any comments until after I get home from work today. Nosleep ( Talk  ·  Contribs ) 15:16, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

The first thing that jumped out at me when giving the article the once-over was overlinking. Nellee Hooper is linked six different times. Underneath It All is linked five times. It's My Life (Talk Talk song) has six links (these are not counting the navbox at the bottom). Gwen Stefani is linked four times. Love. Angel. Music. Baby. is linked three times. Rock Steady (album) is linked four times, including in back-to-back paragraphs in the lead. Overlinking is something they hate at FAC, and I'd advise paring these back greatly. Sure, link in the lead and then again in the prose, and maybe a third time for It's My Life (Talk Talk song) in the tracklisting for the album, but four, five, and six times is too many for anything. Concordantly, just use "Hooper" and "Stefani" (and anyone else) after their full names have already been given. An easy way to get a much more formal tone. Nosleep ( Talk  ·  Contribs ) 02:44, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

You use abbreviations and spell them out later. That's backwards. '''The album sold moderately well, being certified 2× Platinum by RIAA in the United States and CRIA in Canada, and Platinum by ARIA in Australia. It received mostly positive reviews from music critics, who praised the variety of music genres on the album. should contain the full names of the organizations and then the abbreviations in parentheses, whereas It later became one of the band's biggest hits, being certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association[6] and gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.[7] and The Singles 1992–2003 sold 2.2 million copies in the United States[15]  and was certified Gold and Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on January 16, 2004 and 2× Platinum on July 21, 2004[16], signalling total sales of over half a million, one million and two million copies respectively.[17]  In Canada, the album was certified Gold, Platinum and 2× Platinum on June 13, 2005 by the Canadian Recording Industry Association, demonstrating sales of over 50,000; 100,000; and 200,000 copies respectively[18]  In Australia, the album was certified Gold in 2003[19]  and Platinum in 2004[20]  by the Australian Recording Industry Association, signalling sales of over 35,000 and 70,000, respectively.[21]''' should then just use the abbreviations, or full names if they haven't yet been given. Nosleep ( Talk  ·  Contribs ) 04:49, 25 July 2010 (UTC) (bolded to make the selections from the article text more distinct)


 * It is the band's final album to date and was released alongside the DVD Rock Steady Live, a video of a concert as part of the band's Rock Steady tour in 2002, and the box set Boom Box, which contained The Singles 1992–2003, Everything in Time, The Videos 1992-2003, and Live in the Tragic Kingdom. Heck of a run-on sentence
 * Is the wiktionary link to hiatus really necessary?
 * It features thirteen of the band's singles from their later three studio albums — Tragic Kingdom, Return of Saturn, and Rock Steady — and the album track emdashes should not be spaced. Use an endash if you want it to be spaced. That may be more suitable anyway with the use of the emdash below in under which she has released two solo albums—Love. Angel. Music. Baby. on November 22, 2004 and The Sweet Escape on December 15, 2006. for which I probably would use a comma, but there's nothing technically wrong with emdashing there
 * Possible overlink issue with greatest hits as well.
 * WP:MOSNUM issues. Spell out numbers less than 10, use numerals for numbers higher.
 * Be consistent in your date format usage as well. Love. Angel. Music. Baby. on November 22, 2004 and The Sweet Escape on December 15, 2006. clashes with Two months later on the 25th of November, the album was released along with the B-side, rarity, and remix collection Everything in Time and box set Boom Box.
 * The only single from The Singles 1992–2003 was a cover of the song "It's My Life", Perhaps, "The only new single" given the album's title?
 * No Doubt had doubts on recording a cover and contemplated writing new material[4], punctuation before citation, and why not just "they" instead of restating the band's name? We would know to whom the pronoun refers, particularly as the previous sentence begins with "the band."
 * Because the band were taking a break I'm aware that this is proper usage in British English, and that there's no seriously compelling reason the article must be in American English, but it stands out as jarring.
 * The link to Christmas music in Ruth Mitchell of the BBC called the album a typical Christmas album does not seem suitable.

That's about all I've got. Good article. Nosleep ( Talk  ·  Contribs ) 05:19, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Eek. Several dead external links need addressing before this article has a prayer at FA. Nosleep ( Talk  ·  Contribs ) 06:24, 25 July 2010 (UTC)