Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Earth Angel/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 13:13, 24 January 2015 (UTC) [1].

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Earth Angel

Nominator(s): Saginaw-hitchhiker (talk) 21:06, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

This article is about... Earth Angel, one of the most popular American songs of the 1950s. It was both the first R&B and independent release to chart on Billboard. Earth Angel recently passed a GA and I feel confident enough to nominate it for FA, which I've never done before, so have at it!

Oppose for now, but this is a great start! Concerns:

• 1b: The composition, recording, and musical examination need to be extracted from "Background" and treated properly in their own sections, as there is much more ground to cover and the current section is sort of an unorganized combination of the background of the group and of the song, plus other things tacked on. What Was the First Rock 'n' Roll Record? is a well-regarded book, but it doesn't include much in-depth information about each song. We then jump right to "Commercial performance". The article is not very cohesive as it stands.
• 1c: A quick library search reveals lots of great sources about this song that you have not explored or included. There are numerous books, journals, and newspaper articles that discuss how the song was conceived and composed, how it was recorded, and much more thorough descriptions of the song itself. You have a 2-sentence analysis sourced to sheet music, which is not adequate. You've written "76 beats per minute" which I can't find on the sheet music.

I recommend you withdraw the nomination so you can perform further research, expansion, and reorganization of the article. --Laser brain (talk) 15:02, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Closing comment -- It would be good to see this back at FAC after further work along the lines highlighted by Laser brain. I'll be archiving this shortly; per FAC instructions, pls wait a minimum of two weeks before returning with another nomination. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 13:12, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

• Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose (talk) 13:13, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

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