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Good articleX&Y has been listed as one of the Music good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
July 2, 2006Peer reviewReviewed
October 6, 2008Good article nomineeListed
December 9, 2008Good topic candidatePromoted
April 26, 2017Good topic removal candidateDemoted
June 9, 2018Good topic candidateNot promoted
Current status: Good article

Album Cover Message[edit]

The article (currently) claims the album cover is encoded using ITA2. Reading in columns, from right to left, bottom to top, we get: 

11101 (1D)
11011 (1B)
11000 (18)
10101 (15)

From what I can tell, in ITA2, that is: 

X
FIGS
9
6

It could also read X9Y if FIGS was assumed to apply only to the next letter, but that isn't what the ITA2 article says. Reading from right to left gives "YO/". --Colin Barrett 14:07, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Is this any help decoder Vanky 18:31, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Read this [1] --Madchester 00:45, 2005 May 7 (UTC)

According to the key in the liner notes, the art means 'X&Y' (this also reveals the pattern on the last page of the notes to be 'Make trade fair') 1Rabid Monkey 17:40, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why does the article now only say it's the Bardot Code? It is clearly ITA2. Treva26 (talk) 02:03, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bonus tracks[edit]

"Til Kingdom Come" is indeed a distinct track 13. I changed the tracklisting to reflect this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewT (talk • contribs) 15:49, June 5, 2005 (UTC)

Then, unsigned editor, why does my copy (which I am importing into the Apple Music app at the time of writing this) not show it on the tracklist in the back cover? It stops after track 12, "Twisted Logic". --Fandelasketchup (talk) 15:57, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I doubt you're going to get a response from the editor who posted that, considering it was 15 years ago. The answer's in the article anyway. -- I need a name (talk) 16:20, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Latin American Artwork[edit]

Is there a higher quality image of the red Latin American tour edition cover of X&Y? The one we have as of now is not the best…

Reception[edit]

I understand that there were a few "C" grades for the album, but that doesn't warrant a "mixed to positive". First off, editors are meant to avoid terms like this, unless reliably sourced, and the source here is Metacritic. There are other sources available as well which quote generally positive reviews, and the two which I'm aware of which say mixed, were released before all reviews could be accounted for, so aren't accurate. Secondly, ranges liked mixed to positive are to be avoided, the reasons for which cab be found on many talk pages and discussions, which is my "generally positive" is used. It is even pointed out that reviews were inferior to their previous album, which supports the point that not all reviews were glowing. And most of the reviews on display aren't an average of "C", so it isn't inaccurate. And the reviews on display are only sample of all the collected reviews, which can be found on Metacritic. Thanks - Jak Fisher (talk)

Orphaned references in X&Y[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of X&Y's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "mc":

  • From Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends: "Critic Reviews for Viva La Vida". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
  • From Mylo Xyloto: "Critic Reviews for Mylo Xyloto". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2 February 2012.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 23:59, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment[edit]

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:X&Y/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

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Start class:
  • Green tickY A reasonably complete infobox
  • Green tickY A lead section giving an overview of the album
  • Green tickY A track listing
  • Red XN Reference to at least primary personnel by name (must specify performers on the current album; a band navbox is insufficient)
  • Green tickY Categorisation at least by artist and year

C class:

  • Red XN All the start class criteria
  • Green tickY A reasonably complete infobox, including cover art
  • Green tickY At least one section of prose (in addition to the lead section)
  • Green tickY A track listing containing track lengths and authors for all songs
  • Red XN A "personnel" section listing performers, including guest musicians.

B class:

  • Red XN All the C class criteria
  • Green tickY A completed infobox, including cover art and most technical details
  • Red XN A full list of personnel, including technical personnel and guest musicians
  • Red XN No obvious issues with sourcing, including the use of blatantly improper sources.
  • Green tickY No significant issues exist to hamper readability, although it may not rigorously follow WP:MOS
This article goes down from B all the way to a stub class due to it's lack of a personnel section! Add one to make this at least a Start! Andrzejbanas (talk) 04:20, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 04:20, 6 August 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 10:56, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

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