Talk:King & Queen/GA1

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Reviewer: Status (talk · contribs) 19:06, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Lead

• King & Queen, released in 1967 by Stax Records, is a duets album by Otis Redding and Carla Thomas, two of the label's most successful artists. --> Odd wording. How about something like: King & Queen is a studio album by American recording artists Otis Redding and Carla Thomas. It was released on March 16, 1967 by Stax Records.

• Done

• The LP was Redding's sixth album, and Thomas's fourth, and the final studio album released by Redding before his death. --> The album is Redding's sixth album and Thomas's fourth, and the final studio album released by Redding before his death on December 10, 1967.

Done

• Marvin Gaye --> link

Done

• Following Redding's death in December 1967, the single "Lovey Dovey" was also released. --> Released as what?

• What do you mean?

• The original LP's --> album's

• Not sure why this needs a change, but done

• Don't see a reason the lead should have two paragraphs; they could all fit in one.

• I also don't see a reason why it should be one paragraph. Two paragraphs are better for clarity.--GoP_T^C_N 10:20, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Background and recording

• Who exactly is Jim Stewart?

• Added he was the producer

Release

• Six out of eleven songs were cut during their session; the rest were overdubbed by Redding in the following days owing to their concert obligations. --> Unsourced, and what does this have to do with the album's release?

• Moved to recording section; it is actually sourced

• Seems more appropriately entitled "release and promotion", as there's info about singles here.

• How is this promotion?

Reception

• King & Queen was given a positive critical reception by reviewers. --> King & Queen received generally positive acclaim from music critics.

• Ok, done. But I am not sure about "positive acclaim"? Acclaim is always positive

• Jason Ankeny from Allmusic --> Jason Ankeny of Allmusic

• Done

Personnel

• Source shouldn't be an external link.

• This is better as placing the same ref all the time

• I'm not understanding what you mean. Statυs (talk) 03:26, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Charts

• Unsourced.

• Added

• Billboard --> US Billboard

• Disagree. It is known that Billboard is the US chart, and it charted only there

• R&B chart --> Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

• The current is better because of consistency

• Pop chart --> Billboard Hot 100

• Ditto

• Pop chart (in albums) --> US Billboard 200

• Ditto.

• R&B chart (in albums) --> US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

• Ditto

• They are different charts, and should be done correctly. There is no such thing as the "Pop chart" and "Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs" and "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums" are to different things. Statυs (talk) 03:26, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
  • Question: As this album was released in 1967, there was no "hip-hop" chart then nor was there a Billboard 200. If you're going to use the actual name of the charts, shouldn't it be the name of the charts as they were named then? --Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 22:29, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

References

• 2 uncatgorized redirects
• Allmusic is not a magazine, and should not be in italics. Publisher is also missing; Rovi Corporation

• I deitalicized Allmusic. The publisher is actually not missing

• Ref 3 --> work is BBC Music, publisher is BBC

• Ok, done.

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• I'm sorry, but since you have failed to fix the remaining issues that are on the article, I cannot pass this article. I have left you a few notifications on your talk page asking the issues to be fixed, and they haven't been. The last one I stated that I would have to fail the article if they weren't fixed. Statυs (talk) 21:52, 31 July 2012 (UTC)