Talk:Distinguished Service to Music Medal/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: J Milburn (talk · contribs) 21:56, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm afraid I'm going to have to close this review for a rather unusual reason- I'm not really sure the article is eligible for GA status. It is more of a list than an article, and so belongs at featured lists candidates. Lists like this appear at FLC an awful lot; for a couple of examples, see Silver Slugger Award and the articles in Wikipedia:Featured topics/Nebula Award. While the title of the article suggests that they are articles about awards, they're primarily just lists of winners. This article is the same. Victoria Cross (FA) would be an example of an article about an award, which would be eligible for GA status (were it not already featured). As such, I recommend sending it towards FLC, as it's not really eligible here. Regardless, here are a few pointers which may help improve the article:

• It'd be nice to see some more secondary sources. It's currently based mostly upon works published by Kappa Kappa Psi.
• "the Fraternity colors" Why the capital?
• "Greek letters of Kappa Kappa Psi." Decap? You're not referring to the organisation itself here
• "wreath, symbol of achievement." a symbol? Or perhaps "symbolising achievement"?
• Don't be scared of redlinks- anyone notable on the list can be linked to whether they currently have an article or not

I also made a few small edits. Best of luck at FLC! J Milburn (talk) 22:08, 13 January 2013 (UTC)