Talk:Anonymous (Tomahawk album)/GA2

GA Review

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Reviewer: Moswento (talk · contribs) 13:42, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

• Hello! I'll be reviewing this one. Detailed review should magically appear below within the next 24 hours or, failing that, 48. Moswento ^talky 13:42, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

• So, having given this a good "going over", I conclude that it's oh-so-very-nearly ready for GA promotion. Overall, the prose is well-written, the referencing looks solid, the article seems neutral and stable without plagiarism. The cover art is fine, as is the live image. I have a few minor queries below, but once these are responded to, I will be delighted to promote this. Good work! Moswento ^talky 13:57, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Lead

• "Anonymous charted in several countries, reaching positions in Australia, Norway and the United States." - this seems an overly-long way of saying "Anonymous charted in Australia, Norway and the United States"

Production

• "Patton's former Mr. Bungle bandmate Trevor Dunn became the band's bass player in 2012." - is this relevant? It seems appropriate to the band's article, but not to this album.
• "Denison found books of traditional music" - The source says he found "transcriptions", I don't see that we can tell if they were loose-leaf or bound.
• At the end of the article, I don't have much of an idea what this album sounds like. I gather it's somewhat experimental, and one review compares it to Zappa and Mr Bungle, but is there anything you could add beyond "Denison has called Anonymous a "kind of a detour" from Tomahawk's usual sound, and described it as a concept album"? (In saying this, I'm not suggesting you give it a specific genre - I see from the edit history that you removed the genre label previously)

Release and reception

• " to the musical culture they were working within" - "the musical culture within which they were working"? (optional change)
• " finding that " - "concluding that"?
• "CMJ New Music Monthly" - shouldn't this be italicised?

Personnel

• I think some kind of "Credits adapted from Allmusic" kind of note would be helpful here. I gather that's the typical way of handling referencing for these sections.

References

• Footnote 8 - iTunes is acceptable as a source, but if you can find an alternative it might make me happier. And you want to make me happier, don't you?

Comment

It's been over three weeks since this review was done, and no response here from the nominator, who has been active elsewhere. Perhaps setting a deadline of a April 8—one month from the review's completion—would be in order? BlueMoonset (talk) 00:03, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Grapple X's Wiki activity has been fairly minimal since the start of his review, and I have left a note on his talk page previously. I think it's probably best to just close this as unsuccessful. Grapple X: if you ever want to submit this to GA again, just drop a note on my talk page and I'll put it to the top of my review list. Moswento ^talky 12:16, 3 April 2013 (UTC)