Talk:Ace Young/GA1

GA Reassessment

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This article is undergoing a reassessment as part of the GA sweeps performed by the Good Article Project Quality taskforce in order to ensure that it still meets the requirements for Good Article status.

A quick glance at the article reveals numerous problems:

1. The lead is too short and does not adequately summarize the article.
2. The first and third paragraph in the "American Idol" section are unreferenced.
3. The "Post-Idol" section is clearly thrown together, as it is a series of disjointed sentences. Most of the information, while important to the article, is unreferenced.
4. The second, third, fourth, and fifth sentences in "Personal life" are unreferenced.
5. The performance of his two singles is not mentioned in the prose (and is not referenced in the "Discography" section).
6. Many of the references are dead links (see [1]. In addition, many of them are missing important information. At minimum, they should contain a title, publisher, url and access date (preferably using the "cite web" template). References consisted simply of urls are often subject to linkrot, as shown above).
7. The reliability of some of the references is dubious. What makes tv.com reliable? Likewise with aceyoungfans.com, the blog section of rockymountainnews.com, realityblurred.com
8. Reference 13 simply points to American Idol's news page. Since the page is updated regularly, whatever story this was supposed to link to is no longer shown.

I feel that this would take a lot of work to get back up to GA standards. I will place it on hold for one week, however, to give a chance for improvements to be made. If the article cannot be improved to meet the GA criteria, however, it will be delisted. Best wishes, GaryColemanFan (talk) 06:56, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

There has been no response, and this article is not particularly close to meeting GA standards, so I am closing this reassessment and delisting the article. It may be renominated again in the future, but the above list should be used as a guide for the minimum improvements necessary before nomination. Best wishes, GaryColemanFan (talk) 01:31, 21 August 2009 (UTC)