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Meg & Dia[edit]

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Result: Delisted Szzuk (talk) 12:34, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How in God's name did this ever get to GA? The sources are terrible. It completely fails on almost every level:

1a. 2008-2009 is broken up into individual sentences, many of which begin with In or On. I also see at least one sentence fragment. Elsewhere, the prose is completely disjointed (jumping from how Dia's work has sold to her children's novels).

1b. The discography is completely out of style. Take a look at nearly any discography on Featured list to see how the albums should be formatted.

2a.Entire swaths are unsourced. "Something Real" and the discography included.

2b: I see citations to YouTube, iTunes Store, MySpace. Those have to go. And that's a good 2/3 of the sources. Also, I removed a listing of iTunes Charts, which are on WP:BADCHARTS.

3a. No sections on critical reception of their works. Also, I know Dia Frampton charted a duet with Blake Shelton, but no mention of it is made. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 06:28, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The referencing and prose is particularly bad. This needs a lot of work and the major contributors are either retired or have not been active for over a year. Unless someone is willing to put in a lot of work soon it will have to be delisted. AIRcorn (talk) 02:01, 14 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I removed most of the bad sources and did some maintenance tagging. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 03:57, 14 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delist Worst references removed, but still a few suspect ones and now even more is unsourced. AIRcorn (talk) 12:04, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. The article suffers from stubby sections and underdeveloped single sentence paragraphs. Annoying parenthetical phrases litter the article; for example:

Nick was Meg's car mechanic after she was involved in a minor car accident (Which also is the result of the name for the EP What Is It? A Fender Bender).

There are also citation issues. Some references aren't formatted correctly, such as Teen Vogue interview; in at least one other case a citation doesn't support the claim. Majoreditor (talk) 23:08, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delist clearly fails #1, #2 and #3 of WIAGA. The section "The Meg & Dia Band" consists of quotes; this is the first time I have seen something like this.--♫Greatorangepumpkin♫_Hey ^{it's me} 15:20, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]