Talk:Doug Anthony All Stars/GA1

GA Review

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Initial thoughts

Great article, some good images, references looking sound. More comments to follow.hamiltonstone (talk) 10:49, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

• Nicely written, good use of quotes. I enjoyed this piece.
• If possible it would be good to get citations for the actual articles that published the DAAS hoax stories, though I assume they are too early to be available online. Either way, there should be a date / year in the article for when this case occurred.

Found an approximate date for the Batman hoax. Original articles are hard to find, but I'm still looking.

• Re the banning of their book. Can we find out what was the nature of the content that required a warning sticker or editing. Nudity? Foul language?

This isn't specified in any of the articles, but I'll keep hunting around. I've only skimmed the book myself, but it's pretty dark and there's a lot of gruesome detail and foul language. There's also a spectacularly revolting geriatric sex scene. But I haven't found a good secondary source to back this up yet.

• Also re the banning of their book: if it was taken to court it should be possible to get a reference, and possibly a hyperlink, to the case report.
• Ditto for the court case on Icon.

Also having trouble finding these.

• I would be inclined to try and create a separate sectoin for the two TV programs The Big Gig and DAAS Kapital, which were responsible for so much of their popular recognition, and try and beef up the info on them. Eg is there info on:

• ratings data
• how many appearances on the Big Gig
• how many episodes were there of DAAS Kapital
• what were the original broadcast periods of DK (I have no real sense of what "two seasons" means, or even which year/s they were in)

Ratings data I'm finding hard to come by. I've added some more detail on DK - two seasons, each of seven episodes, which aired between 1991 and 1992. No luck finding the exact broadcast dates, though. I can't find an exact number of appearances on The Big Gig, just that they were a weekly feature until 1991.

• There should perhaps be a mention of the fact that Throw Your Arms Around Me was performed by the group prior to the funeral - it was, from my memory, a real high point in their TV work, and, as the discography shows, was released by them as a single. This may rate a mention in the main article.

Added.

• Can there be a short section at the end on the subsequent work of the members. I appreciate they have their own entries - however for this entry to be complete it should give a sense of how DAAS influenced their subsequent careers.

Added this!

I don't think all the above needs to be done for this to be worth GA - it would all be needed for FA.hamiltonstone (talk) 11:12, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the review! Unfortunately some of those specifics - court case details, TV ratings, etc. -might be a little hard to get a hold of since, as you pointed out, most of the sources are pre-internet. But I'll do some more research, see what I can find! And certainly some of your other suggestions are very doable - I particularly think a section on the members' subsequent work would be a really useful addition. Thanks again for taking the time to review and comment on the article - I'll get right on those changes. -Shoemoney2night (talk) 14:16, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Progress toward GA

Good work so far, esp the new section. I was checking out the source for the hoax story (re UK newspapers), and realised there is a problem here. Currently the only source the article has for the DAAS UK newspaper hoax is an interview with McDermott, and he is the one who gives this information, not the interviewer. Now, given that this is all about hoaxing interviewers... do you see the problem? Who knows whether their 'lie' about Doug Anthony was printed in those newspapers? We only have McDermott's word for it. This isn't going to fly. I think there has to be better sourcing of this stuff if it is to stand in a GA. It doesn't have to be citations of the original UK newspaper articles, though that would be good - perhaps necessary - for FA. But there has to be something other than McDermott's say so for these facts... Cheers. hamiltonstone (talk) 22:52, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Ack, good point, I hadn't even considered that. No luck finding the original articles, but I did find another article to support the claims. Let me know if anything else needs to be done! -Shoemoney2night (talk) 11:19, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Fabbo. I'd been holding off, and holding off, thinking, "Am I going to have to fail this piece for GA just because we can't find a ref for a key fact that happened before the days of the Internet?" So. All good. Through it goes! Keep up the good work! Cheers. hamiltonstone (talk) 07:44, 28 February 2009 (UTC)