Talk:Enta Da Stage

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[edit] Delisted GA

Reasons given:

  • Not stable.
  • Not referenced enough.
  • Not NPOV.
  • Too many abbreviations to understand it.
  • Needs more wikilinks.
  • Who makes the claims mentioned through the text.
  • No info on the recording
  • Notes and Trivia sections should become a brilliant prose or be removed (we are not a fact book : WP:NOT).

Lincher 17:24, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Re-reviewed : Cues :

  • First, the track listing should be at the end of the article.
  • The Samples section should be transformed into prose.
  • The personel should be a prose for the top people in explaining why they're in the band and give a brief overview of what they accomplish.
  • Album chart position shouldn't be a table but instead it should show the highlights of the albut, like, for example, Buck Em Down was placed 2nd on the Hot Dance Music though wasn't in the Billboard Hot 100.
  • The rest sounds OK. Lincher 17:07, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I put the Chart Singles in the order they came out, that makes the most sense. I don't really get why that other stuff really matters, either. --PDTantisocial 23:56, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I have rearranged some of the pictures, fixed several factual errors in the infobox, and done some other cleanup. 69.116.150.174 03:11, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citation spot check

As part of this project, I've checked a few citations from this article. It did quite well. Results:

  1. Footnote 2: "Their first release as a group was their 1992 single "Who Got Da Props?", which is now hailed as a classic hip hop single."
    • Checks out From site: "After dropping the critically acclaimed Enta Da Stage (Nervous), which spawned classics cuts like "Who Got Da Props?""
  2. Footnote 5 (a): "Buckshot was praised not only for his lyricism, but also for his lyrical delivery and breath control, with his flow and dramatic, conversational vocal tones being seen as original and entertaining"
    • Checks out. From site: "...with such forceful musicality that the literal meaning of such lines is usually eclipsed by his delivery. Buckshot raps in an aggressively playful way throughout the album, bringing flow after flow to the table while effortlessly altering his inflection and switching his structure."
  3. Footnote 10: "The album also spawned a number of additional remixes. Along with "Buck Em Down" and "I Got Cha Opin", the tracks "Ack Like U Want It", "Son Get Wrec", "Shit Iz Real", "How Many MC's..." and "U Da Man" all featured remixes, which were later included on Black Moon's Diggin' in Dah Vaults compilation"
    • Checks out. Track listing on site includes remixes of all listed songs.
  4. Footnote 12: "Enta Da Stage has also been described as "Era defining""
    • Checks out. From site: "Black Moon’s era-defining 1993 Enta Da Stage"
  5. Footnote 14: "Though praised for its originality and production, Enta Da Stage has also seen criticism for its monotony and lack of lyrical substance. Rolling Stone magazine gave the album a humble 3 Star rating, and criticized the release for "ignorance", and claimed that the release failed to capitalize on its promise, stating that "They leave blank the ultimate canvas - the self.""
    • Checks out. " In refusing to commodify themselves, they leave blank the ultimate canvas – the self."
      • The context given in the article seems to misrepresent the meaning of that statement. The reviewer isn't so much criticizing the musical credentials of the album as explaining why the band would not, in his opinion, be commercially successful (or so it seems to me)

--RobthTalk 11:36, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Contradiction

Text says "The album was produced entirely by DJ Evil Dee and Mr. Walt of Da Beatminerz." Infobox adds Buckshot. Which is correct? Rich Farmbrough, 12:04 24 February 2007 (GMT).

Was 5ft previously 5ft Accelerator or 5FT Accelerator? Rich Farmbrough, 12:37 24 February 2007 (GMT).

[edit] Adding country

This article supposes a knowledge of where East Coast hip hop comes from. All too often articles assume that readers will be familiar with the country of the subject that is being written about. The reader shouldn't have to link to another article or make inferences from the content of the article to work this out. We musn't make this assumption in an international encyclopaedia. So I added 'American'. Great article! 82.32.238.139 00:21, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rationale of the image??

Avobe the images don't have any fair use rationale. Didn't anybody notice that? How can an article be judged as featured article without observing its image page (Whether they have proper rationale or not)?--NAHID 19:57, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

People forget to take a look at the images or simply are apathetic. I've opposed some recent FAC's (and withdrawn when the objections were addressed), but people just don't pay attention to media. ShadowHalo 20:32, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
People should judge all matters along with media in an featured article.--NAHID 08:42, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm aware. That doesn't change the fact that they don't. ShadowHalo 03:52, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
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