Talk:True Blue (Madonna song)/GA1

GA Review

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OK, let's see what we have here..Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:53, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

GA review (see here for criteria)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): not too bad, there are some striaghtforward ones I can do and will list some others. b (MoS): passes

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): yes b (citations to reliable sources): yes c (OR): yes

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): yes but see below b (focused): yes

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias: yes

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars etc.: yes

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): yes b (appropriate use with suitable captions): yes

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail: nearly there, some minor things below ok, over the line - if you can get the last bit, it will be a bonus

Some fixes:

• It emotionally and harmonically resembles Whigfield's song "Be My Baby". - comes across oddly, the sentence sructure as such suggests the latter song predates the former. This should be clarified.

Not sure what you mean by that, can you please clarify your comment. Frcm1988 (talk) 04:20, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Clarified by putting in the year to read as Whigfield's 1999 song "Be My Baby". --Legolas ^(talk2me) 05:28, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

• In the book Rock 'n' Roll Gold Rush... - I have no idea what the book is about and why it is relevant. Need to say in a couple of words what the book is on "...on 80s music" or whatever.

OK, I can answer this one. Rock N' Roll Gold Rush is a book written by Smithsonian/Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame Museum author Maury Dean, that is about various artists, singles, music, chart data, and song information. Dean sometimes critiques the songs he writes about. In fact, the book is used as a textbook for the rock n' roll classes at Suffolk County Community College, a college which I attend. CarpetCrawler^{message me} 01:19, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Emphasized a little to reflect about the book so that it reads, ''In the book Rock 'n' Roll Gold Rush which contains information about various artists and their singles, ... --Legolas ^(talk2me) 05:28, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

• Steve Morse of The Boston Globe, when describing the song, said that was a "bid to be an '80s Helen of Troy" - can we expand at all on why he said this? weird....

Exemplified to include the words the song before was. --Legolas ^(talk2me) 05:28, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

• six weeks later it reached its peak of number three for three consecutive weeks - to place it in context, might be good to add what was numbers one and two (i.e. what it was beaten by)

I don't think this is necessary, just to tell you that the three weeks "True Blue" was at number three, Boston's "Amanda", The Human League's "Human", and Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" were number-one, I think is too much, not to mention the number-two songs. Frcm1988 (talk) 04:20, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

OK, fair enough. Casliber (talk · contribs) 05:00, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

*It ended at the thirty-seven position of the year-end chart - thirty seventh?

Corrected Frcm1988 (talk) 04:20, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

• Author Lisa A. Lewis says that this event emphasized Madonna's role as perveyor of multiple audience feelings. - I am not sure what this is supposed to mean, can it be elaborated upon?

Changed the wordings to have a clear meaning - Author Lisa A. Lewis says that this event emphasized the effect Madonna had on different kind of audiences due to the popularity and response to the contest. --Legolas ^(talk2me) 05:28, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

• Is there anything about why the song was performed only once on one tour and never again? Did Madonna reflect on the song later and decide she didn't like it (because of the connection with Penn?) This would be good to add if it could be sourced. This would be great to add and flesh out the article.

I believe Madonna never performed the song after the Who's That Girl Tour because it was about her feelings to Penn, and well everybody knows how that end, it wasn't even included in any of her compilations. I will try to find a source. Frcm1988 (talk) 04:20, 22 April 2009 (UTC)