Wikipedia talk:Good article reassessment/Dancing the Dream/1

Comparison of article with source material
The GAN review was critical of the reliance on Campbell for the "Content" section. For reviewer convenience, here is a comparison of article and source material. Geometry guy 14:03, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Article. Featured in Dancing the Dream are twenty poems and essays written by Jackson. They mainly focus on children, animals and the environment. One of the poems talks of coping with the discovery of an oil-covered seagull feather, while a second documents the plight of seals who ponder whether or not they will be killed by hunters. Another details elephants who refuse to lie down and die in order to give up their tusks for the trinkets of man. In the reflection Mother Earth, Jackson talks of how humans have mistreated the planet, stating, "We've been treating Mother Earth the way some people treat a rental apartment. Just trash it and move on."

The poems and reflections included in the volume concentrate mostly on, not surprisingly, children, animals and the environment. Poems dealing with finding a sea gull feather coated with oil; seals wondering if they will be clubbed by hunters; and elephants refusing to lie down and die giving up their tusks for man's trinkets; illustrate the extent to which Michael is concerned with how man has treated animals. In "Mother Earth" he reflects on how man has mistreated the earth, "We've been treating Mother Earth the way some people treat a rental apartment. Just trash it and move on."

Article. In a poem titled after his late friend Ryan White, who died in 1990 following a battle with HIV/AIDS, Jackson explains that he misses the teenager and that the boy suffered because of people's ignorance towards his disease:
 * Ryan White, symbol of agony and pain
 * Of ignorant fear gone insane...

In "Ryan White" Michael writes of missing his friend and of how he suffered because of people's ignorance about his disease:
 * Ryan White, symbol of agony and pain
 * Of ignorant fear gone insane...

Article. The poem Mother was written for Katherine, to whom Jackson was deeply devoted:
 * No matter where I go from here
 * You're in my heart, mother dear.

Mother had previously been published in Katherine's own book, My Family. Some of the other material in Dancing the Dream had been featured by Michael Jackson in the past. The poem Dancing the Dream, titled The Dance, and Planet Earth were included in the liner notes of Jackson's 1991 Dangerous album. Also included in the book, were the lyrics to the songs "Will You Be There" and "Heal the World".

"Mother" is written for his own mother, to whom he has always been deeply devoted:
 * No matter where I go from here
 * You're in my heart, my mother dear.

Some of the poems have also been published before. "Mother" was include in Katherine Jackson's book, My Family The Jacksons. "Dancing the Dream", titled "The Dance", and "Planet Earth" are included in the liner notes of the Dangerous album. The lyrics to "Heal The World" and "Will You Be There" from the Dangerous album are also included in Dancing the Dream.

Article. The 100 photographs in Dancing the Dream were billed as being "previously unreleased". In fact, this was incorrect as some of them had been featured previously in a 1985 Jackson calendar, and the magazines Ebony and People. Others were stills from the music videos of "Black or White" and "Remember the Time", as well as images taken from a performance by Jackson at MTV's tenth anniversary celebration.

Dancing the Dream was said to be filled with one hundred previously unpublished photographs with twenty poems and essays penned by Michael. Actually some of the photographs had been published before. Some were taken from the 1985 Michael Jackson calendar, and Ebony and People magazines. Others were still photographs from the videos for "Black or White" and "Remember the Time" or his performance from MTV 10, their anniversary special.