Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Kid A

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted 16:58, 22 May 2007.

[edit] Kid A

This article has been accepted as a GA, and since then, full copy-editing has taken place and the readability has improved. I think it may now be good enough for FA. - Alex valavanis 11:36, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

• Support - I like the ample background and production sections, they are so critical for album articles.--Danaman5 16:32, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
• Support. Great article. Very nice work. Nat91 18:33, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
• Improve. I don't think this article really qualifies as a Good article yet, despite being awared the status. It needs a lot of its replication taken out, an improvement in its use of language, punctuation and generally a lot of eyes passing over it before being granted such an accolade. Until this article improves a great deal, I'm firmly against its being made a feature article. Don't take my opinion here in the wrong way. I'm for the album's status being raised and becoming a feature article, but certainly not until it reaches a level of quality first. Let's put the horse before the cart. I'm doing bits and pieces here and there to improve it, but at a very brief glance, there's just too much wrong with it to be made feature before even being considered for FA. --linca^linca 10:37, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

  Thanks for your comments, but can you be any more specific or at least give examples of what can be improved? Which criteria does it fail to meet? I think it compares quite favourably with Surfer Rosa and Doolittle (album), both of which are featured. - Alex valavanis 11:10, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

  Another couple of editors have now been through the text and extensively reviewed the quality and accuracy. Is it better now? - Alex valavanis 10:44, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

• Support - Very extensive, much informations and good research imho. --SoWhy ^Talk 14:04, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
• Comment - I'm going to do a more thorough rereading of this article later (having met this article previous at Peer Review). On first glance, I'd suggest trying an tighten up the lead a little bit. Mention some basic detail like who produced it and where (I'm thinking possibly as the second sentence in the article). Is the Thom Yorke quote all that necessary for the lead? Most importantly, mention the album's estimated total sales; this can be done in the lead or somewhere else in the article. WesleyDodds 14:23, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

  Production and sales added to lead. - Alex valavanis 15:06, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

  Quote is now indirect. Is this better? - Alex valavanis 15:42, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, that looks better. Also, you should reformat the album credits to conform to the guidelines at Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums#Credits. WesleyDodds 17:21, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Done, although I've added some sub-headings as the list is rather long. - Alex valavanis 18:16, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

• Comment Way, way too many blue links. From the lead: "single", "video", "marketing", "guitar", "Grammy", "2003".

  Removed excessive links per WP:CONTEXT. Better now? - Alex valavanis 10:20, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

The prose needs work in areas. Examples from the first section:

• "particularly for singer Thom Yorke.[13] Yorke's sense of global dislocation and speed.." The word "York" is repeated in sucession. "Speed" is unexplained and unclear; was he taking amphetamines?
• "Yorke's sense of global dislocation and speed, which inspired songs on OK Computer,[14] had intensified on the 1997-1998 "Running From Demons" world tour,[15] documented in the 1999 film Meeting People Is Easy.[8]" - This seems bolted and clunky.

  Reworded sentence and removed ambiguous words. - Alex valavanis 10:42, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

• "fridge buzz" or innocuous background noise. - What does this mean?

  It's a quote from Thom Yorke. I've rearranged the sentence to make it clearer - Alex valavanis 10:42, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

• "suffered depression as he struggled to write new music" - Dangling modifier.
• "feeling that "all the sounds you made, that made you happy..." - and felt that.

  Done - Alex valavanis 10:42, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

• "After the tour, the band came close to splitting up for good" - To informal.

  Made more formal - Alex valavanis 10:42, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

The article is very well researched and detailed, a little work on the copy and I thinks it's there. Good work so far. Ceoil 07:38, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

These were examples only; the entire text needs an audit for similar issues. Ceoil 20:54, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, there are several editors working on copy-editing at the moment, so hopefully we'll be there very soon. Thanks for helping out btw. - Alex valavanis 00:16, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

• Support I only caught two very minor errors while reading it, both of which I fixed myself rather than be a bother. This is excellent work; very comprehensive. --Brandt Luke Zorn 23:41, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
• Support Exaustive and well sourced. Frédérick Lacasse (talk • contribs) 17:16, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
• Comment The article has seen dramatic improvement since my last minor edit to it. Quite stunning. Just64helpin 17:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.