Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tenacious D/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article review. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted 06:17, 31 January 2007.

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Tenacious D

This article is heavily cited, and I think adheres to the stringent Wiki policy. There are no unsupported assertions, and there is no POV (ie this is not a fan page - the fact the Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny bombed is made clear).

Tenacious D Fans (talk) 22:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Comment: Whilst heavily sourced, some of the headings appear too thin and not currently worthy to stand alone. I'm talking specifically about "Friendship", "Misattribution and imitators", and "Politics". Perhaps you should consider expanding on those short paragraphs? Schizmatic 22:43, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Object: Many things to fix:

• There are a lot of external links, leave only official sites.
• Some references are not properly cited, use the template:cite web for those.
• Samples shouldn't be grouped in the end of the article, see wikipedia:music samples.
• Some images don't have fair use rationale, one isn't even licenced.
• Remove the covers from the discography section.
• As Schizmatic said, expand the stub sections, also remove the word "the" from some of the headings.
• The references should be cited after a punctuation mark.

I'll finish to read the article tomorrow. Cheers. No-Bullet (Talk • Contribs) 01:48, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I have addressed some of the issues you have discussed. I have removed the unofficial external links, regrouped the samples, included fair use rationales, removed the covers, removed the "the" from the headings. Thanks for looking at the article. I will try to expand the smaller paragraphs as well. Tenacious D Fans (talk) 09:46, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

• OBJECT. Introduction does not conform with WP:LEAD, should be expanded to summarize article per policy. Too many stub length sections, some sections starting with definite articles contrary to WP:MOS, and one- or two-sentence paragraphs (bad style). Section titled "other appearances" reads like a trivia section, bullet points should be transformed into prose. Style problems such as this throughout article does not meet criteria 1(a) requirement for "brilliant and compelling" prose. Several citations are incomplete, failing requirements of 1(c) and WP:CITE. I'd prefer the "See also" section before "References." Also fails 1(b) as it is lacking any substantial discussion about audience and critical reactions to Tenacious D. —ExplorerCDT 07:49, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I will try to include critical response to Tenacious D. Tenacious D Fans (talk) 09:46, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose per above. Stub sections and paragraphs are bad. The lead includes comparisons to bands that aren't substantiated later in the article. Bullet point lists are varied with prose in "Other appearances" (the latter is better). Prose could do with general work throughout. Trebor 14:49, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article review. No further edits should be made to this page.