Talk:Start a War (song)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Aoba47 (talk · contribs) 16:51, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

• Grabbing this for a review as I am interested in the song. Will put up a review soon. Aoba47 (talk) 16:51, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Review

• Reference 8 is dead and needs to either archived or replaced. (I would highly encourage you to archive all of the references in the future to avoid dead links and insure your hard work is preserved on here).

 Done

• I do not believe that the “and solely” part is necessary as it is obvious from the context of the sentence.

 Done

• I think you should say “record” instead of “recording” in the second paragraph of the lead. Technically, I think you may be correct, but it sounds a little odd to me.

 Done – I changed it altogether; I don't want to confuse the reader. Carbrera (talk) 01:17, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

• Do you need to say the full name of the concert in the lead and the body of the article, including the “Presents Gwen Stefani” part? You would know more about this than I do so this is more of a clarification question.

 Done – I feel like it sounds technically incorrect when mentioned in full, but I did change because I shouldn't be too informal about it. Carbrera (talk) 01:17, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

• The phrase “claimed involvement” seems a little odd to me, as it could imply that she said she was involved when in fact she was not really. However, in one of your sources on here, Stefani does talk about working with Charlie XCX (in an indirect manner). I think my main issue is the inclusion of "claimed", which can be interpreted ambiguously.

 Done

• You repeat who wrote and produced the song twice in the “Background and development” section (in the first and third paragraphs). Please take out one instance to avoid repetition.

 Done

• I think you can just say either “the solo works of Furler” or “Furler’s solo works”. I do not find the “herself” after “Furler” to be necessary.

 Done

• I am not sure the quote “one wholly new song” is necessary as the writer seems to use it to say that is a new song being introduced during the concert and not directly correlating to its actual composition. I would suggest removing the quote unless you can clarify how it contributes to an understanding of the song’s composition.

 Done

• This is more of a clarification question, but does a classification of a song as a “power ballad” automatically make it a “power pop” song? I am only wondering as you added that as the genre in the infobox, and I am not sure if that is true or not. It makes me think of songs like ”Dream On” and “Stairway to Heaven” as they are both power ballads but not necessarily pop songs. The genre part of the infobox seems to always come under close scrutiny so maybe remove the “power pop” reference if the connection is not strong. Again, you may be correct, but I just want to clarify this.

 Done – I was a bit unsure of this as well. I remember Another Believer performing this action a few months ago, so I guess I've been following in his footsteps ;). I wrote "Power ballad" but linked it to "Ballad". Carbrera (talk) 01:17, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

• I do not think the “I dig it” quote is necessary as you can convey it better in your own words.

 Done

• There are a lot of quotes in the “Critical reception” section. While I like a lot of them, it is more obvious that there is a large amount of quotes considering the section is rather brief. I would suggest going back in to paraphrase shorter quotes, such as “I dig it”, “vintage-inspired feathery getup”, and “aerial song [...] emphasizes her voice" for some examples.

 Done – I fixed the three you pointed out. Carbrera (talk) 01:17, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

• I would rephrase the first sentence of the “Live performance” section to: Stefani has only performed “Started a War” once as part of…”

 Done

• Be careful with the use of “it” in the second sentence of the same section as it is used to reference two separate things. The first “it” denotes the performance of the song while the second one denotes the concert as a whole (as I do not believe that this particular performance was advertised or promoted much by Stefani or her team in any manner). I would clarify this through revision.

 Done

• I would revise the fourth sentence of the same section to the following to improve the flow: Since she performed “Start a War” along with her recent releases (“Baby Don’t Lie”, “Spark the Fire”, and “Together”), several news publications believed it would receive a commercial release. (I removed soon as it is vague and is not helpful to readers now and in the future as soon is very relative.)

 Done

• Maybe put “Scheduled release history” to really make sure that the reader knows that these releases did not happen?

 Done – Yes! I was trying to think of a better wording and this is definitely better. Carbrera (talk) 01:17, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Final words

@Carbrera: Great work on the article and once everything is addressed in my review above, I will pass this. Aoba47 (talk) 17:27, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

@Aoba47: I believe I took care of everything. Thanks so much for your thorough review! Carbrera (talk) 01:17, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

@Carbrera: Great job! I am still very impressed that you could make such a great article out of the song. This is a definite ✓ Pass. Aoba47 (talk) 01:19, 28 December 2016 (UTC)