Talk:Closing Time (album)/GA2

GA Review

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Reviewer: GreatOrangePumpkin (talk · contribs) 16:50, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

   "major releases through Asylum" - link Asylum as confusing

   "The album's lead, and only, single, "Ol' '55"," - can be just "The album's lead and only single, "Ol' '55","

   "on LP in 1976, on CD in 1992 and 1999 and 180 gram LP in 2010." - suggest adding a comma after "1999"

   "Waits' setlist at these series of shows, described as "hootenanny nights"[11]" - a comma at the end of Ref 11

   "consisted primarily of Bob Dylan covers[12]" - ditto

   " and Waits signed to Asylum Records within a month." comma ahead "and"

   "Drummer John Seiter, guitarist Peter Klimes, trumpeter Tony Terran and additional guitarist Shep Cooke were recruited through Yester and through Seiter, jazz bassist Bill Plummer was hired. " ref needed

   "The main recording sessions for Closing Time took place at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood, California—where Buffalo Springfield, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and The Doors had previously recorded—during spring 1972 with Yester fronting production, almost immediately after Waits's signing and were described "quick and efficent."[18]" sloppy. Add comma after "1972". It should be split into two sentences. Perhaps move "almost immediately... Waits's signing" to the beginning of the sentence, and merge California with "during spring, with..." and the content inside the mdashes could be added in the end after a semicolon

   "; articulating his direction and using metaphors to describe how he wanted the songs to sound. " - semicolon should be a simple comma

   "The sessions took a total of ten days with the first two days focusing on "getting used to [the studio]"[20]" period missing, add comma ahead "with the..."

   "Both Waits and Yester wanted to record during the evening and night, " - could be just "during evening..."

   "however, due to no slots being available, recorded through the morning and afternoon "from ten to five every day."[20]" but as no slots were avalaible, it was recorded through ..."

   "The sessions concluded with a total of nine songs completed," replace comma with period

   "The following Sunday, the final session for Closing Time began, with guest musicians Arni Egilsson replacing Plummer and Jesse Erlich performing cello.[21]" - The final session for Closing Time began in the following Sunday, with..."

   "The title track, "Closing Time", was the only song recorded in full and Yester later described the session as " add comma ahead "and Yester"

   Does the "3:22" have any meaning? Does it symbolize anything?

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

   IMdB is not reliable

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall: The prose in the first sections could use a copyedit--Kürbis (✔) 09:40, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

   Pass/Fail:

Addressed all of the issues, hopefully it's up to scratch. Idiotchalk _(t@lk) 12:39, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Pass meets criteria. Regards.--Kürbis (✔) 19:59, 11 August 2012 (UTC)