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Nirvana (band)

A "landmark" band, and the article is kind of complete. I just need to know what else it needs to get FA criteria. Igordebraga 23:43, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

The References section is severly lacking. We should have much more in there, and with citations for specific parts of the article (see Kurt's article for examples of how to do that). The biggest problem with this and the Kurt article is that they are so lacking in citations that they really aren't trustworthy enough to consider them featured article quality. And, as has been said of the Kurt article, there are plenty of biographies out there of Nirvana and/or Kurt that could be used as references that simply haven't been. -- LGagnon 00:59, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

I consider the Nirvana articles to be some of the best on Wikipedia and I am extremely disappointed that Kurt Cobain is not a featured article. Here are a few suggestions to help make this article a featured article.

Some parts of the article are too wordy, consider rephrasing the following sentences:

After recording, Vig initially started off to mix the album as well but both Vig and Nirvana were not satisfied with their results so they decided to call in someone else to mix the album.

While popular perception after the fact was that the band wanted this distorted masterpiece, they were actually unhappy with certain aspects of Albini's mixes.

The extensive note on Axl Rose might be better as a footnote:

(Cobain's version of the story was that Courtney had jokingly asked Axl to be the godfather of Frances Bean. Axl responded by telling Cobain to "shut up his bitch". Cobain turned to Courtney and said, "Shut up, bitch!" eliciting laughter from the Nirvana entourage.)

The Discography section needs copyediting. The most obvious example is, "a only few hundred CDs do." Also always start the other information with a capital letter. If you know anything about formatting, the look of the section would be greatly improved if the tables were further indented than the sub-headings.

I feel the Sucide dispute section is out-of-place in this article. It really has little to do with the band because as noted, "Grohl and Novoselic have remained silent in the matter." It is already covered in Kurt Cobain and should be deleted from the Nirvana article. Its removal would probably be welcomed by the less devoted reader, for whom this article is just on the verge of being too long. The section is well written, so maybe it would be better to move it to Talk:Kurt Cobain with a note that the authors of that article might like to integrate it with the current article. If you do remove it, remember to change the reference to the section at the end of In Utero.

Optionally, you might like to add a few extra sentences on the post-band life of Grohl and Novoselic. (Right now I think you just have something to the effect is now a member of Foo Fighters/is now a member of Eyes Adrift. A quote from either or both on Cobain's death might really enhance the article's depth.

Finally, for the article to have any chance of being a FA, you will need to expand the references and include inline citations. You can do this using the ref/note tags.

I really like this article and I hope it becomes a feature article. Hopefully, I will be able to devote some more time to helping out with it in the future.

Cedars 01:26, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Nice improvements. Keep up the good work. Cedars 07:51, 4 August 2005 (UTC)