Talk:Doctorin' the Tardis/GA1
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GA Reassessment
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As part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles' Project quality task force ("GA Sweeps"), all old good articles are being re-reviewed to ensure that they meet current good article criteria (as detailed at WP:WIAGA.) I have determined that this article needs quite a bit of work to meet current criteria, outlined below:
- I think the lead could be beefed up. The last "paragraph" isn't really a paragraph at all. The reception should probably be moved down, and a little more information on the context added to the lead.
- Along the same lines, an issue with one or two-sentence quasiparagraphs is pervasive through the article. These either need to be expanded to a minimum of three sentences, merged elsewhere, or cut entirely.
- Unsourced statements:
- "The release of "Doctorin' the Tardis" followed a self-imposed break from recording of Drummond and Cauty's sampling outfit, The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs). The single continued The JAMs' strategy of plagiarising and juxtaposing popular musical works. However, unlike the cultish limited releases of The JAMs, in which Drummond's Clydeside rapping and social commentary were regular ingredients, "Doctorin' The Tardis" was an excursion into the musical mainstream, with the change of name to "The Timelords" and an overt reliance on several iconic symbols of 1970s and 80s British popular culture, including Glitter, the Doctor Who theme song, references to Doctor Who's Daleks and the TARDIS), Sweet's "Blockbuster!" and Harry Enfield's character 'Loadsamoney'." is sourced to [1], which mentions none of the content attributed to it? Perhaps an old/outdated link?
- "The song also features the riff from another of Glitter's recordings, "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)". Its name is a reference to "Doctorin' the House" by Coldcut."
- "The "Timelord" component of Ford's name arrives from the Time Lords, a fictional alien race from the planet Gallifrey in Doctor Who." (iffy on this... might be 'common knowledge' enough, but considering we are asserting a connection it would probably be best to cite it.)
- "While the music-buying public of the UK embraced the single, taking it to the number-one spot within three weeks of its release, the music press were strongly negative." First off, I don't see a ref for the #1 chart position, but secondly, you can't really assert that the entire music press was negative with just two reviews; you need to find an actual explicit cite for that info.
- Most of "Legacy" is unsourced.
- References: What makes http://www.libraryofmu.org/ a reliable source? Also, http://www.kasino.co.uk/klf.txt is a dead link.
I am putting the article on hold for seven days pending improvements. Keep me appraised of progress in this space. Thanks, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs(talk) 19:23, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
- As no progress has been made on the above, I am delisting. I am encouraging any interested party to make improvements; the article can be renominated at WP:GAN at any time. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs(talk) 16:19, 31 December 2009 (UTC)