Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Captain Beefheart/archive1

An excellent, well-written article on the music legend, poet, and painter. (Ibaranoff24 23:27, 15 January 2006 (UTC))

Nominate and Support. (Ibaranoff24 23:27, 15 January 2006 (UTC))
Paragraphs seem quite short for a FA... WhiteNight ^{T | @ | C} 23:33, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Object. Agree with previous user, and also there are no inline citations, a requirement for FA status. The lead paragraph is only one sentence and would be best merged into the 2nd paragraph. It also should've 1st gone through a Peer Review. A bit of copyediting also needs to be done. AndyZ 14:08, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
- Unless things have changed recently, inline is not a requirement for FA. It's a preference. Citations are a requirement, but format wars are fruitless. Geogre 15:50, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Object for now: It needs some more work on the writing, as there are tense shifts that are disturbing, and the whole of the article shows its seams between the various editors who have worked on it. The images should probably have captions, and the biography right now doesn't match the lead. Surely it's enough to say that CB is one of the most influential musicians of the last 40 years: we don't need to give a parade of people influence by him (as the list could be five times as long and include every punk with brains and every experimental musician since). Generally, it needs a single thesis and a rewrite from a coherent point of view. I suggest Peer Review. Geogre 15:55, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Object: According to the criteria I am working on at the Featured Music Project, this article fails:

Lead - 2 and 4: Free pic would be nice, list of admirers not relevant, lead should summarize the most relevant bits of the rest of the article
Sales - 1, 2, 3, 4: Appears to not mention sales anywhere
Pictures - 1, 2, 3: Pics need captions and fair use rationales, free pics would be nice
Audio - 1, 2, 3, 4: No audio samples
References - 2, 3, 4: Only one inline cite (and it's an external link), refs should include books that take a broader focus
Discography - If he never released singles and the discography section is comprehensive, then the discography is good
Format/Style - 1, 2, 3, 4: Needs copyedit, section under "studies" is too short, specifically cite opinions and remove weasel words