Talk:Baroque pop/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Phelps (BYU) (talk · contribs) 20:04, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

I plan on reviewing this article today. Phelps (BYU) (talk) 20:04, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Minimal changes are needed

The text in the sound clip box is somewhat ambiguous. For a while I thought that you listed Matthew Guerriri as the writer of "Walk Away Renée", but then I went to the song's Wikipedia page it lists three different men who wrote the song and none of them are named Matthew Guerriri. Initially I thought that you meant to say Michael Brown, who you mention as its writer later in the Baroque pop article, but then I realized that you were referring to Michael Guerrieri who works for the Boston Globe. You might want to say reporter instead of writer to avoid confusion in the future. Michael Guerrieri's name is misspelled throughout the article as Michael Guerriri, which needs to be fixed.

The final section (dissipation and revival (1970s–present)) could be a lot smoother. It needs to be more comprehensive and fluid. The use of the word quaintness could also be changed to remove any feeling that opinions are being shared. The group the Divine Comedy is mentioned in the captioned picture next to the final section; you might want to consider mentioning them in the body of the article and maybe find other examples of baroque pop groups that fit into the same 1970s-present category.

The final section is that way because there's almost no significant coverage of baroque pop since the 1970s. It's a ubiquitous term, but nobody really discusses it beyond "...[X] is a baroque pop band...they have string sections".--Ilovetopaint (talk) 22:53, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

@Phelps (BYU): Any other suggestions?--Ilovetopaint (talk) 20:12, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Drive-by comments

I just made a couple of corrections to the text. Also, Note 5 currently carries a self-published tag and Ref 8 connects to a dead link, both of which need to be fixed obviously. The ref formatting in general could do with some work: inconsistent style for dates; no web retrieval dates; Allmusic vs AllMusic; inconsistent cite formatting for refs 4 & 5. Thought I'd mention those while I was here … JG66 (talk) 06:40, 17 December 2016 (UTC)