Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the TFAR nomination of the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add   to the top of the discussion and   at the bottom, then complete a new TFAR nom underneath.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/June 21, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 20:18, 2 June 2014 (UTC)



Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles (pictured). Released on 1 June 1967, it was an immediate commercial and critical success. In 1966 the Beatles retired from touring and began a three-month holiday from recording. In November, Paul McCartney had an idea for a song involving an Edwardian era military band. He later suggested that the Beatles should release an entire album that would represent a performance by the fictional Sgt. Pepper band. During the sessions the Beatles adopted an experimental approach to composition, and the producer George Martin's innovative recording of the album included the liberal application of signal processing. Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an important work of British psychedelia and an early concept album. As of 2014 it has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. The music scholar David Scott Kastan described it as "the most important and influential rock and roll album ever recorded".
 * Most recent similar article(s): I'm not seeing anything comparable in 60+ days.
 * Main editors: GabeMc
 * Promoted: 23 May 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: Sgt. Pepper is arguably the most famous of all rock albums, and after an extensive peer review and FAC, I doubt the article will ever look better than it does right now.
 * Support as nominator. GabeMc  (talk&#124;contribs)  17:01, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, but no need for stray inline cite in last sentence of blurb text. Also, title in blurb text should be wikilinked. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 21:28, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Non-free image removed, can't be used on the main page. BencherliteTalk 08:51, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
 * That's a pretty arbitrary rule. Couldn't we WP:IAR and waive it? Hawkeye7 (talk) 11:54, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Arbitrary what? It's been like that for six years +. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:14, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Arbitrary, not new. The obvious and best image is the cover, which is one of the best-known covers in the world. It falls under Fair Use, and it won't adversely impact the copyright holder (who will probably profit) in any way. Whereas the image you are proposing to use is from 1964, and totally out of step with the look and tone of the album in question, and is not in the article. I urge that we ignore this rule and use the album cover. Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:36, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Much as it would make my life a lot easier when creating blurbs to be able to use non-free images, the option of ignoring WP:NFCC is simply not open to me. The latest discussion of non-free images on the main page (2013) led to no change of policy despite requests. Sorry. BencherliteTalk 12:18, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Also noting that this is a level-4 "vital article". BencherliteTalk 12:43, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Highly polished article. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:17, 29 May 2014 (UTC)