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GA review comments[edit]

Even though I nominated this article, I would like to make some comments.

Picture was recently deleted as "fair-use image which can be replaced with a free one"; hoping to find a free one soon. Will not be easy as I seem to be the main contributer to the article now, and Meg and Dia don't seem to come to England much. Also, since they aren't the biggest band in the world, free pictures on websites such as Flickr are not common.
References in my opinion are very well used. For a small band such as this, references are scarce, and I feel they are well used here, so please take this into account!
— jacĸrм (talk) 21:39, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Picture uploaded. My own, so free use. -Thepeoplesuck 22:28, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Biography section was converted into a History section with proper subdivisions. Thepeoplesuck 08:17, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

- GA passed. Dihydrogen Monoxide 09:04, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA on hold[edit]

Indeed it's close. A few notes.

The biography section should be split into subsections sorted by significant milestones (see Powderfinger etc.) or by album.
The last few sentences in it are one sentence paragraphs - merge 'em
The members could potentially get their own articles...(not a GA requirement though)
"and Cursive. [11] During live" - should be no space before ref

Dihydrogen Monoxide 11:37, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Fixed?[edit]

The following has been done by Thepeoplesuck and I:

Biography section arranged chronologically and by important milestones.
Last sentences merged.
References fixed (references after grammar, no spaces).
Members for individual members would be stubs, if that. Simply not enough information available on individual members of the band, only the band themselves.

-- Jack 23:16, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

May 2009 Updates and thoughts[edit]

I just did a minor overhaul of the 2008-2009 section (assimilated the Give It A Name 2008 section) and added a here, here and here section, which still needs more info.
I also think the Personnel section is unnecessary, but have not removed it.
I would like to point out a common grammatical issue. When referring to the band (Meg & Dia or simply the band), the possessive form should be it's, not their because the band is a singular entity. When referring to the two individuals Meg and Dia (or Dia and Meg), use their. I encourage all future editors of the page to follow these standards.
Also, I believe the album should be titled here, here and here and not Here, Here, and Here (the song title capitalizes the first H only and has just one comma). I've removed the erroneous serial comma from the title of the Wikipedia page for the album.

Thepeoplesuck (talk) 12:14, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'll sweep through and fix the singular for "the band", but the capitalization of the album and song should at least have the first letter capitalized per Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(music)#Capitalization. So I'll change it to Here, here and here AngusWOOF (talk) 16:41, 18 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Horrible state[edit]

I just edited this article for the first time in a while and it was in a horrible state. The infobox was partially removed, no picture (no reason for removal), the info on them was partially removed so it made no sense, and nobody even noticed! Yet it remains a good article. -- Jack?! 00:08, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Our Home Is Gone[edit]

The article Our Home Is Gone has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No mention of notability, no references "only about 1000 albums were sold". Fails WP:N and WP:V

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Superfluous references[edit]

I edited this article awhile back, trying to pare it down and remove some of the "fluff"-- I was mostly reverted. I believe the subject here is notable, but I am less certain that the article warrants the blogspot references, press releases, facebook entries, itunes store, and shopify.com stuff (which strikes me as VERY promotional). To the extent that other editors agree that the article should have most of these kinds of "references" removed, please let me know by leaving a message below. I will be watching this page. Thanks. A loose noose (talk) 06:53, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]