Talk:Futures (album)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 17:48, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): It is factually accurate and verifiable. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): It is broad in its coverage. a (major aspects): b (focused): It follows the neutral point of view policy. Fair representation without bias: It is stable. No edit wars, etc.: 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):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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This is almost ready. A bunch of mostly minor copy changes, and there is also one citation I'd like to see improved. 7-day hold to MusicforthePeople. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 18:19, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Copy changes

Issues with a (C in S) tag refer to User:Sammi Brie/Commas in sentences.

Lead

• The sessions lasted from February to May 2004, and were held Remove comma (C in S)
• "Pain" was later certified gold by the RIAA, and peaked at number 93 Remove comma (C in S)

Background

• The group reached a breaking point with Trombino as they ran out of song ideas; and their disagreements led to Trombino's departure from the project Remove the "and", which you don't need when joining sentences with a semicolon.
• Believe in What You, a stop-gap video/live-album was Complete the appositive by adding a comma after "album".

Production

• Jimmy Eat World re-grouped sometime after, and wrote "Work", "Pain", "Polaris", and "23". Remove comma (C in S)
• Pre-production started and lasted for a month, before recording Not a C in S issue but remove the comma.
• Consider linking Tucson, Arizona and Tempe, Arizona
• Sessions were concluded in May 2004, with mixing taking place in mid-June, which took a month to do,. Is this a month beginning in mid-June? This could be reworded.

Composition

• It was most of the earliest songs written for the album, which ended up receiving constant minor changes during the writing process. Does this refer to "Just Tonight"? The "most" probably should be "one". I'd also consider replacing ", which" with "and".

Made it clearer that the line is referring to "Just Tonight..." MusicforthePeople (talk) 18:44, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

• It features strings that were arranged by David Campbell, and was compared to the work of Death Cab for Cutie Remove comma (C in S)

Release

• The video, which premiered on September 14, through Launch.com, was The second comma should be removed.
• On October 11, Futures was made available for streaming through MTV's website, before being released on October 19 through Interscope Records. The second comma should be removed.
• In 2021, the band is set to perform the album in its entirety again, alongside 2019's Surviving and 1999's Clarity. This sentence needs updating.

Sources and copyvio checks

Earwig returns no issues. The highest percentage similarity is 18%, and the top three pages have that because they are quoted.

I do suggest converting from "last, first" in the |author= parameter to using |last= and |first= in citation templates.

Spot checks

I randomly selected 10 footnote numbers for spot checks. All check out. One should have citation information changed to be more specific.

• 22: Once translated, I can see that the Laut interview backs all the claims this is used for.
• 32: Characterization as "pop rock": "the ultimate pop-rock break-up album"
• 36: Matches "atmospheric" mention and nod to Clarity
• 39: This review checks out. I see that the link is a clipping of a review scanned from a magazine, yet the magazine is not mentioned in the citation information where it should be. I'd suggest changing this. Per the file name, this is a review done by John Doran for Metal Hammer in its October 2004 issue. Is this publication available somewhere to get the page number?

Like a lot of magazines, the publication's back issues aren't available online. I would have to track down the specific issue to get the page number. MusicforthePeople (talk) 18:44, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

• 42: Quote of Adkins checks out.
• 64: FMQB listing shows "Work" under 12.6-7 as being released to radio.
• 65: AGF on offline source (sleeve).
• 92: Australian-Charts.com. This checks out. I suppose this is an accepted RS for summarizing these charts?

This is one of several similarly named websites that is widely used for various album/single chart information, per Template:Album_chart#Supports. See also: Wikipedia:Record charts. MusicforthePeople (talk) 18:44, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Sweet, just checking. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 20:05, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

• 97: Alternative Airplay chart history checks out.
• 102: 2004 Spartanburg Herald-Journal article checks out.

Other items

• References are archived.
• There are two images. One is the non-free album cover with appropriate rationale; the other is of a concert. Both have alt text.

@Sammi Brie: I've made the changes. MusicforthePeople (talk) 18:44, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

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