Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted 18:19, 26 January 2008.

Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt

Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt is the obscure, avant-garde debut album by John Frusciante. He quietly released this during his leave from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It is an article on the short-side, indeed. Considering the obscurity of the album, though, Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt consults every available source, ranging from published books to online articles. It was promoted to GA status a little less than two months ago and since then Grim-Gym and I have put the finishing touches on it. Please feel free to point out any and all inconsistencies, problems or flaws you can find! NSR77 ^T_C 04:07, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support - As a significant contributor and co-nominator. Grim (talk) 21:15, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Appears to cover the topic thoroughly and is well written. One concern though, the article doesn't appear to cover how the album's cover art was chosen. Cla68 (talk) 08:03, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It's actually a picture of Frusciante, but since he was incredibly drugged out at the time he gave several (bogus) explanations. I'll search for any possibilities right now, though. NSR77 ^T_C 19:56, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Very nicely written, especially for an album with such little information available for it. I also see that you used the two off line reviews I sent you, glad I could help! xihix(talk) 01:52, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support - As an efficient Spanish translator of all articles related to RHCP, I think it deserves the star. Keep on like this! ;) Regards. Ale flashero (talk) 02:28, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note, please straighten out this source, the publisher is johnfrusciante.com, but I can't figure out what's going on there.

^ "John Frusciante: Perso e Ritrovato" (Pdf). No. 570 (March 2004). Retrieved on August 20, 2007.

That's the title of the interview. It is published on Frusciante's website which has permission, but no further publishing information is given. NSR77 ^T_C 20:51, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Then johnfrusciante.com would be the publisher for your purposes; you had something else in the publisher parameter on the cite template, and you had two publisher fields. I attempted a correction. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:22, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What is this and how do we find it?

VPRO Interview with John Frusciante (1994)

Could be found on the internet; I added a link to part one over at YouTube. NSR77 ^T_C 20:51, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not optimal (is it a copyvio?); it might be preferable to spell out and link to what VPRO is and cite it accordingly. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:22, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article actually talks about the interview because it is pretty important. It links VPRO there and explains what it is. NSR77 ^T_C 05:04, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lot of sourcing to johnfrusciante.com. This sentence has ce needs (pls review throughout):

Frusciante's use of heroin and crack cocaine became more extreme during the final stages of recording in late 1993; as he began viewing drugs the only way to "make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul."[1][11] SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:11, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed the sentence. I'm not particularly sure if that's what you were asking, though, since your question was pretty ambiguous. If it's still bothering you let me know. NSR77 ^T_C 20:51, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:22, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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