Talk:Circle Slide

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[edit] articles needs total rewrite

This article reads from start to finish like a self-congratulatory press release, or a fannish record review in a zine. Wikipedia articles about records are not record reviews. This article violates almost every convention of Wikipedia writing standards: POV, OR, flattery, conversational style, etc. User:TARDIS defended the article in his edit summary, but he needs a refresher course in Wikipedia policies. Here's just a few of the problems:

• conversational style: "Speaking of arguments..."
• unsourced hyperbole: "Although Circle Slide was greeted with almost universal critical praise..."
• Record-review-style analysis: "However, those difficulties are balanced out by the acknowledgment of true love for his wife despite the tension..."
• Opinionated WP:OR violations: "it is obvious that..."
• WP:WEASEL language: "many critics and long-time listeners consider this album to be the band's finest work"
• just plain bad writing: "Even with all the popular success that greeted Wide-Eyed Wonder and the band's relentless touring in support of that record, the circumstances that surrounded the creation of Circle Slide were fraught with difficulty, not unlike Chase the Kangaroo, to which this album is often compared."

That's for starters. wikipediatrix 03:49, 27 June 2006 (UTC)