Talk:That International Rag

That International Rag was a Music good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
November 2, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 7, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Irving Berlin stuffed towels into a piano while he was composing "That International Rag" (listen) to muffle the sound because other hotel guests made noise complaints?

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:That International Rag/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

This is a nice, short article that comes very close to meeting the GA criteria. I noticed three things during the GA review:

The quotation in the "Reception" section should be introduced with some commentary rather than just pasted into the article.
Is only one review of the song available?
Should the reader know who the "Victor Military Band" is? The "Reception" section is fairly sparse, so any information about what became of the song would help.

I will place this nomination on hold to allow for these concerns to be addressed and/or discussed. Any questions and/or comments can be left here, as I have placed this page on my watchlist. Best wishes, GaryColemanFan (talk) 03:25, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Eight days have passed with no response and no progress. Unfortunately, I am going to have to fail the nomination. I urge the editor(s) involved to use these suggestions for future improvements to the article. I hope to see this article back at GA once this has been done, as it has definite GA potential and it a very interesting article. GaryColemanFan (talk) 06:19, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh, fair enough. Been getting stretched thin. Thank you very much for the feedback. I'll make good use of it when I've got a bit more time. Durova^Charge! 06:55, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]