Talk:The Breeders Tour 2014/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 08:13, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Comments

• Our own article on Jim Macpherson doesn't use a capital P in his surname.
• For our non-experts, it'd be worth including a sentence just introducing The Breeders and their style of music.
• "central and western USA" I think we generally avoid USA, and in the lead it would be fine to say something like "central and western United States". Having said that, whichever route you choose, be consistent, a few lines later you use "U.S."
• The lead doesn't really cover the tour and the reception very much, there's a large para on the background to the tour, and a very short para on the tour itself, I would think the lead should be the other way round.
• You have "In 1993, the Breeders" (and I believe this lower case t is much inline with expectations following the Beatles debate), but in the infobox it says "Tour by The Breeders", so for consistency, shouldn't the latter really be "Tour by the Breeders"?
• "The foursome had fun during the LSXX concerts" this isn't particularly encyclopedic, is there a quote you could use here, or consider rephrasing to "foursome enjoyed the LSXX concerts" or something.
• "decided to do a tour" dislike "to do a" here, perhaps just "go on tour".
• You capitalise West in the Performances section but don't have "western" capitalised in the lead, is that deliberate?
• Portland Mercury is The Portland Mercury.
• Polygram is PolyGram.

Otherwise good to go. I'll put it on hold for a week. The Rambling Man (talk) 08:25, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks very much for reviewing, Rambling Man. I will get to this in the next day or two. Moisejp (talk) 13:59, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

No problem, let me know if I don't get back to your responses in a timely fashion. The Rambling Man (talk) 14:34, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi Rambling Man. I think I have addressed all of your concerns. A few points of mention:

• I didn't manage to shorten the first paragraph of the lead, but I did build up the second paragraph so that it is slightly longer than the first. I hope that this second paragraph sums up the non-background better than before.
• Unfortunately, the infobox uses the band's name in two places. If I make it "the Breeders" then it looks funny in the second place it is used. Let me know if you have a solution for this.
• I have stuck to "United States" and "American" for all mentions of the band's country of origin, and reworded to avoid using "West".

Please let me know if you have any further concerns. Thank you again. Moisejp (talk) 05:11, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

It's all good, so I'll promote. Well done, nice working with you. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:36, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Very nice working with you too. Thank you for your attention to the article. Moisejp (talk) 14:49, 5 July 2015 (UTC)