Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Weezer discography
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- The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page. No further edits should be made to this page. The closing editor's comments were: 11 days, 1 support, 2 oppose. Lack of active discussion. Fail. Scorpion0422 02:40, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I've done massive work on this discography. Added paragraphs, tables etc. I think it meets the standards. It has sources, it's organized. cowbellcity45 talk 16:49, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment It looks really, really good so far, except for two reference-related issues: footnote 5 cites a forum, which may not be a reliable source, and footnote 6 cites Wikipedia itself, which is strictly against policy. Two sources I know of that will very likely have sales figures for at least a few of the band's albums are Billboard.com and MTV.com. The self-cite issue will be relatively easy to fix–Pinkerton is already a really good article, and any number of references could be pulled from there to cite the statement. Otherwise, this is a very well-made discography that I will gladly support once the aforementioned problems are resolved. --Brandt Luke Zorn 06:46, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose: While the article does look pretty good there are just a few problems. Once they are fixed I'll gladly change my vote. Years shouldn't be linked in the article. Online forums for sales data aren't very reliable. The sales numbers could have come from anywhere. Also, other articles on Wikipedia shouldn't be used as a citation. -- Underneath-it-All 00:10, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- those sale numbers actually came from a blog by Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo. He has since deleted that blog post for some reason. Also I can easily fix the citing wikipedia thing. I'll get back to this in a day. cowbellcity45 talk 17:09, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose per underneath-it-all, and some more stuff:
- The second paragraph of the intro is ginormous. Either trim it yo half its size (not sure that much details are really necessary) or split it (it can accommodate 3 smaller paragraphs easily)
- saying "debut, first, second, etc." album seems pretty pointless. This could (possibly) be replaced by the record label.
- link to the formats only once
- Indicate that the certifications are U.S. (e.g. "U.S."in parentheses before them)
- Use the multiplication × symbol instead of the letter x (that symbol is in the insertionlinks below the edit window)
- Better abbreviate the charts for the single (adding a few would be a good idea, too)
- Circeus 02:43, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]