Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Album articles by quality/4

7/10 This is a good article, with reliable and reasonably full information on the circumstances of the album, and on the 2003 remaster. I've known and loved this album for many years, still the point that some LP editions had a three-plate "double gatefold" sleeve (like Going For The One) was new to me, and I've never seen the two panel paintings reproduced here, they're not included on the cd either. I think that was a minor part of the early LP editions: every LP copy I've seen is a simple foldout: still that makes a dramatic effect when you first see the knights and then, folding out the full width, get to see the python snakes among the rocks.

Roger Dean has said that although he hadn't heard the music in anything like a finished state before doing the cover art, and the extant covr wasn't his first idea, he felt the cover painting fit like a glove; he cites it as one of his favourites among all his Yes cover packages. I definitely agree: there's a symbolic link between the music, the Gates lyrics and the cover art.

On the minus side, I think the entry could include some more discuussion of the character of the music and its significance - this is a highly unusual album, and still one of Yes' most unified. This could at some points be in conflict with the non-POV, non-subjective policy of Wikipedia (at least the English Wikipedia) buut I feel it's hard to write anything interesting or valuable about rock music if one does not allow some scope for subjective appraisal, and handbooks etc in clasical music go subjective all the time. though in a slightly shielded way. Strausszek September 7, 21:09 (EST) (edit comment)

Reassessed by WP:ALBUMS. Please add at least a full section of relevant prose before resubmitting to WP:ALBUMA for review. Thanks - Alex valavanis 01:36, 16 March 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

Before requesting a new assessment please do the following…

• Expand intro to at least a full paragraph summary
• Add album credits section
• Add several reviews to the infobox
• Add track times

Thanks - Alex valavanis 18:12, 10 March 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

Reassessed by WP:ALBUMS in line with new guidelines. Please add a section for album credits before requesting a new assessment at WP:ALBUMA - Alex valavanis 00:39, 14 March 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

Reassessed as stub class by WP:ALBUMS. Please add a section on album credits before resubmitting at WP:ALBUMA. Thanks - Alex valavanis 09:53, 13 March 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)