Talk:Fearless (Taylor Swift album)/GA1

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Zanimum (talk · contribs) 14:18, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'll review. -- Zanimum (talk) 14:18, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No unresolved issues on the talk page, for starters. Promotion, Tour, Personnel, Charts and sales all ready. (References will be checked last, but the prose seems right.) I love that Colbie Caillat is credited with finger snapping. -- Zanimum (talk) 21:17, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Background

"A Swift Kick in the Pants" is gone, please point readers to the Wayback Machine cache: https://web.archive.org/web/20130729083341/http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_9121730
"not having kissed a male" does sorta sound like she's bisexual. That said, "a boy", like the source article uses, is age-specific. Not sure what to do.

"Writing development and lyrical content" is fine. -- Zanimum (talk) 01:42, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

In the lead, you cite Lipshutz for the 6.6 million figure. You cite the same source later for the 6.6 million figure. Do we need this reference in the lead?
The 9 million copies worldwide stat isn't represented in the article itself.

Title, packaging and release is fine, albeit the quote is lengthy.

Reception

"sixth by a female artist, along with"... don't you mean tied with?
"(its highest worldwide)"... while it's a lesser market to achieve the honour in, these brackets somewhat trivialize the feat. Perhaps em dashes, or a brief second sentence?

Track listings, See also, External links both pass. -- Zanimum (talk) 12:43, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ack. I just looked at Checklinks. I'm forced to fail the article, there's just too many dead links... http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webchecklinks.py?page=Fearless_%28Taylor_Swift_album%29#view:0.1.1.1.1.1 It's very close to GA status, but these links are murder. -- Zanimum (talk) 17:11, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]