Talk:The Melodic Blue/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: MarioSoulTruthFan (talk · contribs) 16:02, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I have to fail this nomination for the following reasons:

• Infobox claims a release date not backed by any sources and not in the body of the article, also needs alt. Also, avoid sources here these can be added to the body of the article.
  • Multiple sources confirm the release date: [1] [2] [3]. Consensus dictates that the genre category of the infobox must be sourced. Alt has been added. ––FormalDude talk 03:10, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
    • None of them are in the body of the article. No consensus dictates such, you need to look at FA articles, they dictate they have to be source in the body of the article. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 10:44, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
      • The third one is citation 13 from the body. FA articles like The Dark Side of the Moon, Blonde on Blonde, Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)? ––FormalDude talk 10:54, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
• On the Lead, there is a huge lack of valuable information, these are just sentences glued together. You start well then use some references that should be added to the body of the article, instead of giving me (the reader) more information regarding the composition, singles, and reviews you go straight to the chart performance, a section that doesn't even exist (more on that later). The lead is a resume of the body of the article.
  • Not sure what you mean about a section not existing. ––FormalDude talk 03:10, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
    • There is no commercial performance section. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 10:44, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
• The Release and promotion section could use some improvements as he has performed songs at Bet Awards, tonight's shows and so on. "the album was updated to include three songs" → what do you mean with update? re-release, changed tracks? Was this released on digital download, CD, Vynil, or any other format? Even a trailer was released as promo 1
• Summary → what is this? A name check of famous people on the album plus some description of instrumentation used on the album?
• The album charted in various countries and was even certified gold, but no commercial performance section?
• Track listing → "These credits are adapted from Columbia Records and Sony Music Entertainment", are they? I see Tidal, Spotify and SGLyric (not sure if the later is reliable) as sources, not liner notes. If you are going to use other articles as a source of inspiration at least do it as they do.
  • Both Tidal and Spotify list Columbia Records and Sony Music Entertainment as the source. ––FormalDude talk 03:10, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
    • You should sai credits are taken from Spotify and Tidal. As they are your primary sources here, not the labels.
• Why is the Personnel section inside the tracklist? Moreover, see Personnel to know what columns to use, and this time around no source for the credits?
  • Personnel section is sourced to the same credits as the tracklist. ––FormalDude talk 03:10, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
• I have serious concerns regarding some sources here such as The Diamondback, Hypebeast, and Song Meanings and Fact, just to name a few.
  • I've seen Hypebeast used frequently and it seems to be considered generally reliable. I'd have to look into the other two more. ––FormalDude talk 03:10, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
• Maybe a release history section? Since it seems the album was re-issued or something in that vein (update)
• This interview with Billboard 2 goes quite in-depth, you just use it to source out uncredited vocals, goes to show that sources are not used to their full potential, other interviews with Complex, even an interview with his mixing engineer giving background to the album 3. Thre is a lot more out there.

With everything I pointed out, I have to fail this nomination. There's still work to be done to this article, it's not ready in any form or shape to be considered a GA. It needs to be expanded which can't be completed in a few days. It also needs to be completely re-written, new sources added, ad more reviews, there is a lot of information out there because of Keem being related to Lamar and some of the songs performing well and winning awards (search this as well). Even if they weren't more sources available the ones used are not done to their full potential and this no way to structure an article.

I would also recommend you to ask for peer review before nominating articles as they can help you out and look at FA articles to get a good grasp of what we look for in a GA, doesn't need to be that comprehensive, but it helps out with the structure. According to the six good article criteria: This fails Broad in its coverage, as it doesn't "addresses the main aspects of the topic" and is not well written failing line A. Furthermore, I advise you not to nominate articles like this, as it is only one result for it. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 22:41, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

• @MarioSoulTruthFan: Thanks for the review. ––FormalDude talk 03:10, 5 June 2022 (UTC)