Talk:Jay Park/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Grandiose (talk · contribs) 17:04, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

I'll review this article. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 17:04, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Comments

Quite a lot to be done here:

• The lead is too short and does not adequately summarise the article as a result (see WP:LEAD for more information)
• I've added some citation needed tags where necessary, if you could find supporting references to ensure verifiability.
• Refs 49, 50, 51, 52, 62 and 63 need more details to ensure verifiability.
• Ref 37 is broken.
• Refs 99, 100 ,101 are to Twitter, which is not a WP:RS and should be replaced.
• "Webpage" is not a work; it is unnecessary (although, strictly, superfluousness is not necessarily a problem for the GA criteria).
• Coverage generally seems good
• Dates are all written out in fill; providing the year all the time makes the text quite hard to follow in places. Consider revising some parts of it.
• Image fine; I'd say that one image was just about satisfactory because Mr Park's career has been so short that his style hasn't changed.

On hold for seven days so you can address these concerns. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 21:58, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

I made all corrections requested above, but the lead section is still difficult to write. I wrote something but I don't know if it will fit, it might be too long :

After nearly 4 years as a trainee under the record label JYP Entertainment in South Korea, Park officially debuted as the leader of South Korean boy band 2PM. The group rose to prominence with the success of their hit "Again & Again" released in 2009. However, Park left the group in September 2009 and returned to Seattle, after a netizen hacked his MySpace account and leaked unfavorable comments Park wrote in English towards Korea, when he was a 17-year-old trainee starting a new life in South Korea. The comments were translated by the Korean media. Park quickly issued an apology, explaining the unhappiness he experienced during his early days as a trainee in an unfamiliar country where he lacked family, the ability to easily communicate and an understanding of the culture. Netizens, though furious and angry at first, changed their perspective on the matter when they realized that the comments were severely mistranslated and taken out of context, after he left South Korea. In February 2010, JYP Entertainment announced the permanent termination of Park’s contract, citing an additional, unnamed controversy that occured before the MySpace incident.

Park returned to the spolight when he posted a cover of B.o.B's hit "Nothin' on You" (with his own rap and lyrics), filmed in his bathroom, on YouTube in March 2010. The video went viral and reached over 2,000,000 views in less than 24 hours. In Korea, the original song by B.o.B and Bruno Mars topped the Cyworld background music chart in a matter of hours upon the video's release. This led Warner Music Korea to release his first EP, Count On Me (Korean: 믿어줄래; Revised Romanization: Mideojullae) in July 2010, a cover EP of "Nothin' on You", with lyrics written by Park. The EP peaked at number-one on the Gaon chart. Park returned to South Korea in June 2010, for the filming of Hype Nation, while being represented by Digital Media Wire CEO and entertainment attorney Ned Sherman. Park signed a contract with Sidus HQ, one of the largest agencies in South Korea, for his Korean activities, redebuting as a solo singer and an actor. In April 2011, Park released his first Korean mini-album Take A Deeper Look, consisting of seven songs, mainly written and composed by himself. The mini-album went on to become one of the most successful albums of the year, garnering sales of over 70,000 copies and winning the Disk Bonsang at the 26th Golden Disk Awards. In February 2012, Park released his first full-length Korean album New Breed, and sold over 80,000 copies in a month. The album peaked at number-one twice on the Gaon chart. Yumix2 (talk) 12:04, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

 Done I've done all corrections cited above. Yumix2 (talk) 16:46, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Update

Lead's fine. Have a look through my edits and see if you can add the required citations, make the clarification, and remove any remaining instances of ALL CAPITALS in references. Also check my edits to ensure I didn't change the meaning. There were a couple of superfluous details that I removed. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 20:41, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

 Done I added the required citations, made some clarifications, and removed the remaining instances of all capitals in references. I also reorganized some paragraphs you changed in order to have a better continuity (for example, the paragraph with the "New Breed Asian promotions" that I moved next to the "release of New Breed in South Korea". As for the "Immortal Song 2" section, I don't know which parts should be removed, I would advise not to remove them, since Park was on the show for only a month in 2011. Yumix2 (talk) 10:57, 29 June 2012 (UTC)