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I've listed this article for peer review because I want to know if I wrote the lead section correctly. Also, I want to know if there is anything wrong with the article that needs to be fixed.
Thanks, Michael Jester (talk) 00:21, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Ruhrfisch comments: Thanks for your work on this article. I assume the eventual goal is Featured list, but this needs a fair amount of work before it would have a chance of passing. Here are some suggestions for improvement.
- The biggest problem with the article is a lack of references, which should not be a surprise since there is a banner at the top which says "This article needs additional citations for verification." Actually have a major cleanup banner like this in the article is grounds for its being removed from Peer review (under the notion that this should be fixed first, then peer reviewed).
- While leads often do not have references, that is because in most cases they summarize the rest of the article, which is referenced. In a list article though, references are needed for everything in the lead which is not referenced in or in the lists part of the article itself. For example the last part of the first paragraph of the lead, as well as the whole second and third paragraphs of the lead have no references.
- For one specific example, I looked at the only ref in the lead (allmusic biography) and it does not mention the Seinfled themes, or his 2010 sigining.
- The references that are used are often incomplete. For example the Allmusic ref seems to be title "Wale Biography" (not "Wale Allmusic") and has an author listed (Cyril Cordor) who needs to be included in the reference.
- Be consistent on refs - why are some cited to Billboard and one to Billboard.com?
- Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. {{cite web}} and other cite templates may be helpful. Current ref 5 is just a URL. See WP:CITE and WP:V
- Make sure that all references are to reliable sources
- The Music videos section has no references and needs them. Featured singles also needs refs. My rule of thumb is that every quote, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref.
- Is Featured singles really the best section header? Would something like "Singles as featured artist" be better?
- Has Wale had any successes in other countries? If so, this needs to be included
- I would link mix tape
- Why is the Roc Nation navbox included at the bottom of the article? There is no reference to Roc Nation elsewhere in this article, and I did not see Wale listed in the nav box (may have missed something)
- Please make sure that the existing text includes no copyright violations, plagiarism, or close paraphrasing. For more information on this please see Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches. (This is a general warning given in all peer reviews, in view of previous problems that have risen over copyvios.)
Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch peer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 04:41, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Second look
- Ref 8 - an internet reference - still missing access dates.
- First five mixtapes have no references
- Collaboration section has no reference - if this is a new album, everything needs to be updated (tables, inforbox, numbers in the lead)
- I would still move the third one-sentence paragraph in the lead and combine it with the second paragraph
- I did a light copyedit of just the lead - moved this. If I made errors or made things worse, please reverse. `
- For the single Nike Boots, I would just put "None" in the album column (assume that is what is meant)
- Problem sentence: After going on tour with Jay-Z in 2009, Wale became a managed artist of Jay-Z's recording label, Roc Nation, to help with all management duties.[3] I would probably trim this to After going on tour with Jay-Z in 2009, Wale became a managed artist of Jay-Z's recording label, Roc Nation
, to help with all management duties.[3] I think what I struck means the same thing as "managed artist"
Hope this helps, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 01:09, 17 April 2011 (UTC)