Talk:Nelly Furtado/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 some work to meet current criteria, outlined below:

• The lead doesn't mention much about how she got into the business, which would be nice to have for a good summary (WP:LEAD)
• Any "paragraph" without at least three sentences isn't a paragraph. That means every such quasiparagraph needs to be merged, cut, or expanded.
• Unsourced statements:
  • "Portions of the song "Scared of You" are in Portuguese, while "Onde Estás" is entirely in Portuguese, reflecting Furtado's Portuguese heritage. The International Release of "Whoa Nelly" featured fellow Canadian Esthero on the song titled "I Feel You"." (I suppose this could fall under general knowledge and not need a cite, but if you can grab a decent cite it can't hurt.)
  • "On April 1, 2007, Furtado was a performer at and host of the 2007 Juno Awards in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She won all five awards for which she was nominated, including Album of the Year and Single of the Year. She also appeared on stage at the Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium in London on July 1, 2007, where she performed "Say It Right", "Maneater", and "I'm like a Bird"."
  • "Furtado has also made a guest appearance on Divine Brown's Love Chronicles, co-writing and singing on the background of the song "Sunglasses"."
  • "On 21 December 2009, Nelly announced via her twitter page that she was recording her next English album. She has also recorded remixes of her spanish songs."
  • "Furtado's music has also been influenced by her current residence, Toronto, which she calls "the most multicultural city in the entire world" and a place where she "can be any culture". Regarding Toronto's cultural diversity, she has said that she did not have to wait for the Internet revolution to learn about world music; she began listening to it at the age of five and continues to discover new genres. ; 'I always know there's a new genre left to discover. For me, it's like a metaphor for life. I feel like if you can get down with any style of music, you can get down with any style of person. So it's fun for me—I get to expose my fans to different vibes and they, in turn, open their minds too. I'm always undergoing mind-opening.'"
  • "Furtado Is Promoting a new line of Henna Tattoos In 2009."
  • "Nelly also donated money to save the Sooke Potholes in her hometown Victoria, B.C."
• Non non-free content issues; there is however an issue with WP:SS; much of the content starts with "On <this date>, <this happened>." It really should be streamlined and spruced up.

I'm putting the article on hold for one week, longer if significant progress is made. Keep me posted on this page. Thanks, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 03:17, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

As no significant progress has been made in the time alotted, I am delisting the article. It can be renominated at any time, but I encourage editors to address the above issues first. Leave any comments on my talk page (I don't watchlist these old reviews.) Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 17:02, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.