Talk:Janet Jackson/GA2

Latest comment: 16 years ago by Realist2 in topic GAN on hold

GAN on hold edit

  • I don't see the need for the use of ref 1 in the lead
  • Ref 16 (and many others...check them!) need full formatting
  • note ref 16, 17, 19, 21, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 44, 46, 48, 56, 61, 62, 64, 65 do not contain Author information and are otherwise formated as correctly as I can tell. Bookkeeperoftheoccult (talk) 09:07, 3 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
  • Yeah, author information isn't always compulsory - only if you know it, include it! dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 09:47, 4 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
  • "Jackson also appeared on..." - next sentence also starts with "Jackson also" - use some variety
  • "six on the Billboard Hot R&B albums chart." - "Billboard" goes in italics. Same in the next sentence, and throughout
  • "The album earned Jackson..." - check the overuse of "and" in this sentence
  • Is there a reliable source saying where she got the Rhythm Nation title from?
  • "maintained airplay on the radio for over two years" - "on the radio" is obvious, you don't need to say it
  • "In 1999, Jackson secretly entered into her second marriage with dancer, songwriter and director René Elizondo; a marriage which remained secret until Elizondo filed for divorce in 2000" - why is this mentioned in the 1986–1992 section?
  • "In May 1992 Janet recorded..." - refer to her as "Jackson"
    • "In 1998, Janet set out on the The Velvet Rope Tour" - again. Do a Ctrl + F for "Janet" and see what you find
    • "Janet celebrated her 40th birthday " - found another one for ya!
  • "of 7 million USD" - formatting; "$7 million"
  • "appearance by rapper, Q-Tip." - comma not needed
  • "Worldwide sales for "Together Again," according to Virgin Records are over 6 million copies, one of the largest selling singles ever from a female artist." - citation needed for all the records presented here
  • Ref 33: Answers.com isn't reliable
  • "that of the janet. album" - just "of janet." is fine
  • The paragraph that discusses the success of The Velvet Rope needs a lot of reorganising...you keep throwing out random records and stats and it could be placed in a more logical order. (More citing needed for these stats, too)
  • You might want to avoid using {{main}} and just wlink the stuff in the sections, because it looks really weird at the top of the 2000–2005: All for You and Damita Jo section with all those links there
  • "opposite Eddie Murphy as professor Denise Gaines" - it sounds like Murphy played Gaines (but she did, IIRC), so reword this
  • "It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 selling 605,128 copies making All For You the biggest first-week sales total of Janet's career and would go on to sell more than three million copies in America." - goes from past to present(ish) tense (needs reword), and needs sourcing.
  • "Jackson's top while singing the lyric 'gonna have you naked by the end of this song.'" - might wanna say what song they were singing
  • "and the most-searched event" - on all search engines? Says who?
  • "CBS would only let Jackson and Timberlake appear on the 2004 46th Annual Grammy..." - this paragraph is unsourced
  • "as a host of Saturday Night Live on April 10, 2004" - date needs wlinking per WP:DATE
  • What's ref 47 referring to...?
  • "at no.13 in February, 1999." - "no" --> "#", and wlink the date (February 1999)
  •   Done
  • Again, the 20YO stats could do with more citing
  • "and the film was released on 12 October 2007. The movie" - film or movie...take your pick, but just use one. You can also throw its name in sometimes to avoid redundancies
  • "In Feb. 2008, " - spell the name out
  • Ref 55 is out of date, and 56-58 need formatting
  • Legacy and Personal Life sections should be ==level 2==
    • Same thing in 71 (and check others)
  • "entertainers including Madonna, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston" - wlinks
  • Try and trim some of the usage of "also"
  • Personal life section needs less quoting and more of your own words
  • It could also do with more wlinking
  • The see also links in the Discography section aren't needed

Leave a note on my talk page when done. Cheers, dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 07:42, 3 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Passed, nice work the two of you! dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 09:47, 4 April 2008 (UTC)Reply