Talk:Who Am I? (Pale Waves album)

Reviewer Comments

The following comments have been copied here because they were disruptively removed from the front side.

Hidden now that article is in article space. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:10, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Comment: Does the author of this draft have any sort of financial or other connection with the subject of this draft? Please read the conflict of interest policy and the paid editing policy and make any required disclosures. You may ask for advice about conflict of interest at the Teahouse. If this draft is resubmitted without addressing the question about conflict of interest, it may be Rejected or nominated for deletion. This draft has been resubmitted without any visible improvement, or with very little improvement. If you do not know what is needed to improve this draft, please ask for advice rather than making minor improvements and resubmitting. You may ask for advice on how to improve this draft at the Teahouse or on the talk pages of any of the declining reviewers. (The declining reviewers may advise you to ask for advice at the Teahouse.) If this draft is resubmitted without any improvement or with very little improvement again, it is likely to be rejected, and it may be nominated for deletion, or a topic-ban may even be requested against further submission by the responsible editor. This draft has been Rejected by a reviewer in the Articles for Creation review process. DO NOT resubmit this draft or attempt to resubmit this draft or prepare or submit a draft that is substantially the same as this draft without discussing the reasons for the rejection. You may request a discussion with the rejecting reviewer, or you may request a discussion with the community at the Teahouse. A discussion will not necessarily agree to a resubmission. If this draft is resubmitted, or an attempt is made to resubmit this draft or an equivalent draft, without addressing the reasons for the Rejection, a topic-ban or a partial block may be requested against the submitting editor, and the draft may be nominated for deletion. You may ask for advice about Rejection at the Teahouse. The submitter removed the previous reviewer comments and decline messages from the draft. These messages say not to remove them. This removal was disruptive, and is an attempt to game the system. The album is scheduled to be released on 12 February 2021, in about 24 hours. The album is likely to be notable after it is released. A draft may then be submitted for review by another editor. The current submitter should not resubmit the draft, due to their gaming of the system. If this draft is resubmitted by the current submitter, a topic-ban or partial block may be requested. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:24, 11 February 2021 (UTC) Comment: This draft does not appear to indicate which of the musical notability criteria is satisfied. If at least one of the criteria is satisfied, please revise this draft appropriately, with a reliable source, if necessary stating on the talk page which criterion is met, and resubmit. You may ask for advice about the musical notability criteria at the Teahouse. This appears to be an album that is scheduled for release in a few days. Musical notability for albums is usually based on charting and other reception information after the album is released. Please resubmit this draft with reception and charting after the album is released. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:36, 9 February 2021 (UTC) Comment: Please wait until album reviews have been released. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 21:00, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Album released

The album has now been released so meets the requirements for notability. 5.151.93.160 (talk) 16:14, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Album released comment

The album has now been released. A resubmission of this draft by an established neutral editor that includes charting will be considered. Any submission by an unregistered editor will be ignored, and semi-protection has been requested to prevent such submissions. Any submission by an editor who does not answer the question about Conflict of Interest is likely to result in a request for a partial block. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:00, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

It's been mainspaced by Ss112, so no further action needed. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 18:26, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

I have approved this as a "neutral editor", and the article currently includes charting information from the midweek UK Albums Chart, where it currently sits at number two. But it shouldn't have needed this—WP:NALBUMS explicitly states charting does not mean an album is notable, just an indication it may be, yet AfC draft reviewers act like this is the be-all and end-all and state it as a requirement for them to approve drafts when it should not be. Extensive press coverage like this album has had is already enough to make an album pass NALBUMS. There are six reviews from well-established publications present on the article, and there's probably more out there.

Further, am I to seriously understand that @Srodgers1701:, an editor who has been here since 2017 and worked on a variety of topics, was accused of having a conflict of interest and threatened with a topic ban for nothing other than daring to resubmit this draft multiple times? Is this what editors get when they have an interest in a topic and go through the AfC process? What great encouragement for editors to contribute to Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. For shame. Do better. Srodgers, I'm sorry you had to go through this, even if you did not particularly engage with it. You deserve an apology from Robert McClenon, quite frankly. Ss112 18:48, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Ss112, it could have been answered simply with "No, I'm not associated with the band or the studio. I am just a fan." AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 20:11, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

@AngusWOOF: Angus, they shouldn't have even needed to. Is this a common thing at AfC, that users interested in topics enough to write an article about them are accused of paid editing instead of the normal line of thinking hey, maybe they're just interested in a topic? That is a considerable leap of bad faith, to start a thread at COI and threatening blocks. You can clearly see Srodgers1701 has been here since 2017 and have made a variety of edits to music topics issued by a variety of music labels. It would not be forefront in my mind to assume somebody had been paid off to edit music articles on Wikipedia for over four years, but perhaps that's just me. Ss112 04:47, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Recapitulation of events

User:AngusWOOF is correct, but there is more to it than that skipped over by User:Ss112, and omitted logically and physically by User:Srodgers17. Angus and I declined the article several times because the album had not been released. On the last resubmission, Srodgers gamed the system in a way that shows that they knew what they were doing. They deleted the record of the declines and resubmitted the draft without the declines, although the record says not to remove them. That wasn't a mistake by an inexperienced editor. That was gaming the system, and at this point I did ask about conflict of interest and I did warn them that I might ask for topic-ban.

This would not have happened if they had simply figured that sometimes ignoring an instruction that says not to remove something may not be a good idea.

Before you start lecturing me to "Do better" and saying that I should apologize, you should read the detailed instructions better. Before scolding me, get the facts and the sequence of events straight. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:09, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

That's still an assumption on your part of why Srodgers1701 removed the declines. Anybody could see in the history that the article had already been declined, and surely you don't review that many drafts that you would have forgotten you had declined this article multiple times already. Srodgers told me earlier on my talk page that they aren't experienced with drafts. I'm inclined to assume good faith here that the removal of the declines was a mistake, and I think you should too. I don't need to read anything "better", and I'm well within my rights to (as I think anybody reviewing this situation should) scold you for immediately jumping to assuming bad faith, launching a COI investigation, and threatening a user with a topic ban or block for the crime of...submitting a draft multiple times. For somebody who comes into contact with new editors via AfC who think that is the main way they can get an article started, that is shameful conduct and something that's going to turn away and dissuade a lot of people trying to submit worthwhile topics. I don't think I need to tell you that you should be encouraging and patient if you're going to be at AfC? Otherwise why don't you leave reviewing AfC drafts for those who can handle other users' mistakes and/or not immediately start threatening or assuming paid editing on the part of the users creating them? Obviously Srodgers1701 isn't going to get an apology from you because you feel you've done nothing wrong. You went way overboard here—the amount of bad faith is staggering and anybody can see that. You can keep replying if you wish, but you're very clearly in the wrong here Robert. Not me or Srodgers1701. Ss112 04:32, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

I still think it's bizarre that the first version of the article was rejected for "not showing notability" when three separate write-ups by NME were written about it. That the second version was rejected is patently absurd.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 17:56, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Who Am I? (Pale Waves album)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 20:29, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Comments

• "the band members Ciara" reiterate Pale Waves here as this is the first para of the main body so it's fair to just link the band at this point.

• Done!--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:34, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• "(Heather Baron-..." never a fan of completely parenthesised sentences, good for a footnote.

• Done!--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:34, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• "nevertheless traumatic" according to whom?

• Fixed!--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:34, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• "also had a significant impact on the release of the album" why? Digital releases were fine?

• That's a good question! The source is not crystal clear, but I think it was logistics related to recording and touring. It seems that the pandemic forced them to record virtually and torpedoed a possibility of a tour, so they bumped it all back a bit. But that's a guess on my part.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:48, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• " think the first batch of demos" this is a huuuuge quote. What's the really significant part? Can it be trimmed down just a little?

• I snipped it down a bit. How is it looking now?--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:43, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• "told Coup de Main that " what's that?

• Fixed!--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:34, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• "So important was Luck..." there are a few direct quotes hereafter, they should really be inline cited immediately after each quote.

• Fixed! I usually do that, but some people complain that it's overlinking. More than happy to oblige here.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:34, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• "Baron-Gracie told NME, "I know" NME is overlinked.

• Fixed!--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:34, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• "in Los Angeles, California as Baron" comma after Cali.

• Fixed!--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:34, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• "Heather Baron-Gracie and Ciara Doran" unless there's any chance of ambiguity, no need to repeat first names.

• Fixed!--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:34, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• "with NME magazine " overlinked. And no need to explain here it's a magazine.

• Fixed!--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:34, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• "Promotion and singles" descends into proseline. Try making a couple of engaging paragraphs out of those factoids.

• I can probably add some info about the videos, but for right now, I collapsed them down into two paragraphs, which seems to look OK.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:39, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• "Smith of NME magazine' see above.

• Fixed!--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:34, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• "emo pop" link?

• Link added.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:34, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• Accolades table doesn't need to be sortable. Just one entry.

• Fixed!--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:34, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• " the Official Physical Albums Charts (OOC), the" overlinked, and how does OOC work??

  It seems that those are linked automatically. Or are you referring to the in-text instances?--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:34, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• Spaced hyphens in the following refs should be en-dashes: 33, 39, 41, 45.

• These should be patched up now.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:35, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• All time ranges e.g. 10:23-11:59 need to be en-dashes.

• Fixed.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:38, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• Are you linking websites/publishers first time, all times, randomly? What's the strategy?

• It should be upon first mention. I think I cleaned that up a bit, at least in the main body text.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:38, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

That's all I have. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 20:16, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

@The Rambling Man: How does this all look now?--Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:49, 10 September 2021 (UTC)