Talk:Broke with Expensive Taste/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: JennKR (talk · contribs) 17:19, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

While I feel this is a strong start, I don't believe that this article is ready for GA status and the main issue that needs to be addressed cannot be quickly:

• I think the article fails on the necessisty to be broad in its coverage. The sections are disappointingly quite thin, which to some extent is understandable as Banks is a (somewhat) indie artist and so the sources available about her work are not going to be prolific or comprehensive. However, I feel like vast improvements could be made in some sections. In Background, why were the 1991 and Fantasea mixtapes not dicussed? Or her massive breakout sucess with "212" which is also included on this album? The considerable delay for this album is also not discussed, her constant pushing back of the release and the media's facetious approach to her album "never coming" were prominent before this. Furthermore, the Music and lyrics section does not tell me enough about what the album sounds like; in fact, it does not discuss lyrics at all. Much more could be made here than a list of genres and details on a limited selection of songs. While I understand that sources are limited, please make sure you're using them to the fullest extent!

Some other comments:

• There are a few close paraphrasing issues that litter the article and may be considered copyright violations where outside quotation marks. A corollary to this is that the solution is not to put everything improperly attributed in quotation marks, as this will create a WP:QUOTEFARM. See the sentence "'80s-style sample, bold brass instruments and haphazard DJ scratches" which is a direct lift from the Idolator source but not paraphrased/quoted, as is, to a less extent, the sentence describing Idle Delilah: "a glitchy mid-tempo track that contains "tropical, thuggish and quirky" sounds and was compared to the work of Lauryn Hill due to its use of both rapping and singing, which were noted for being rugged and velvety".
• Referencing and organisation are both great, but the lead could be longer and more descriptive.
• Banks has written a fable around BWET which isn't mentioned.