Talk:Cryptooology

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A fact from Cryptooology appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 January 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that according to one critic, the math rock album Cryptooology by Yowie "sounds like an explosion in a Slinky factory"?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 16:56, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that according to one critic, the math rock album Cryptooology by Yowie "sounds like an explosion in a Slinky factory"? Source: "Still on the two guitars and a drumkit tip, the antipodean Yowie serve up Cryptooology (Skin Graft), which sounds like an explosion in a Slinky factory." Clare, Andrew (December 2004 – January 2005). "Asterisks by Moonlight". Plan B. No. 3. p. 61 – via the Internet Archive.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Alice (Friday the 13th)

Created by Blz 2049 (talk). Self-nominated at 02:36, 7 January 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: This is good to go, nice one for an interesting article which def makes me want to listen to the album now Mujinga (talk) 11:16, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

To T:DYK/P2

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Cryptooology/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Olivaw-Daneel (talk · contribs) 08:40, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()

3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()

Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

Picking this up. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 08:40, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Overall thoughts: this is a well-written article; I like the prose and appreciate the background information on the band. A few comments below.

Some neutrality issues with these superlatives in wikivoice: meticulous rehearsal and are in fact painstakingly precise in the lead; meticulously composing in Recording and release. I'd attribute them as opinions (perhaps something as simple as "have been described as" instead of "are in fact", assuming a source uses "painstakingly") and/or use a more neutral descriptor.

Removed or reworded some of the unecessary superlatives

The lead seems a bit short; can it be expanded a little?

Expanded on the lead a little. According to MOS:LEADLENGTH, an article with fewer than 15,000 characters prose should have one to two paragraphs in the lead, and Cryptooology has just under 8,000

Composition: is there a reason "clean" is in quotes? (I'm not really familiar with "clean" amplification; just wanted to check if it's a technical term or a quote from the source.)

I was wondering the same thing. Typically when I see the word clean in reference to music, I think "no distortion" (which in this case is true). However, I can't 100% confirm if that's what the critic is talking about in the reference, so I just got rid of "clean" altogether (the sentence still works).

Carl W. Stalling—who is best known for scoring cartoons like Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies – I think this needs a source.

Added a source

I'd try to paraphrase a couple of the longer quotes in Reception; the one from Levinson seems a bit long.

Cut down on some of the quotes

Please ping when done/if you have any questions. Thanks, Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 09:16, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Blz 2049: Pinging since it's been almost a week. I think the article is close to being a GA; just needs a few fixes. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 01:30, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Olivaw-Daneel: I can take a look at this. Give me a day or so. Famous Hobo (talk) 23:24, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Olivaw-Daneel: Alright, took a little longer than I was hoping for, but I'll blame life for getting in the way. I've addressed each comment. Famous Hobo (talk) 01:50, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Famous Hobo: Great, thanks for stepping in. Happy to promote. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 10:09, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]