Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Archive 1
Grading scheme edit
The following grading scheme and classification system follow the criteria established by both WikiProject Ethnic groups and Version 1.0 Editorial Team and was lifted from Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America.
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|rowspan="2"|One article, two views||date 1<br>'''DD Month YYYY''' format||{{Start-Class}}||'''Yes'''||Barely a start! This article has no detail, needs tables and 3 way interactive media with downloadable powerpoint timelines.||[[User:1]]
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Articles in Category:The Beatles edit
These are some of the primary articles of the project.
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|rowspan="2" {{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Top}}|[[The Beatles]]||4 March 2006||{{FA-Class}}||Yes||A very comprehensive article, the use of the 4 member photos in verticals is highly effective. Good gateway to other topics. The featured article status is rather old, there may be some improvement and removal of extraneous material possible. Should be reviewed again but lower priority than some of the articles needing lots of work. (I badged it "FA" because it WAS a FA article but I agree with the assignation of "A" for how it is now..)||[[User:Lar|Lar]]
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||5 March 2006||{{A-Class}}||'''Yes'''||Has been allowed to expand and lose its focus. I doubt it would make featured article status now. 57KB.
History section is growing whilst [[History of The Beatles]] lies neglected.
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|<s>[[A Secret History]]</s>||6 March 2006||style="background: steelblue; text-align: center;" | '''<s>Merge</s>'''||no||Hardly even a stub. Suggest merge to [[Alistair Taylor]].
'''Merged.''' --[[User:Kingboyk|kingboyk]] 02:55, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
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|[[Abbey Road Studios]]||4 March 2006||{{B-Class}}||no||Needs sections and more background.
[[Abbey_Road_Studios#Film_scores]] seems to be excessively large given the size of the article. Might be better if it was split off into a new List article.
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|[[Allan Williams]]||8 March 2006||{{Stub-Class}}||no||A short article. It's worth remembering that ''there is a limit to what can be said about some of these people'' but - despite Williams disappearing from the radar as quickly as he arrived, (he remains a fixture in Liverpool as a 'colourful character') - I think there must be interesting and useful material out there about his short time with the Beatles. He did write a book after all (which I read, nearly 20 years ago).
Article lacks even basics such as date/place of birth and photo.
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|[[Apple Corps]]||colspan=5|To be assessed as part of [[:Category:Apple Corps]]
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|[[Apple Records]]||colspan=5|To be assessed as part of [[:Category:Apple Records]]
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|[[Jane Asher]]||8 March 2006||{{B-Class}}||No||As with Astrid Kirchherr below. This needs a photo and possibly some more information (there is information about Jane that is available on her IMDB entry that is not in the article). Also, the Beatles-related song '[[A World Without Love]]' is redlinked, as you can see.||[[User:Setanta747|Mal]]
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|[[Neil Aspinall]]||8 March 2006||{{Stub-Class}}||No||No photo, little information, no sources cited, may be biased ("hugely popular"?). Good starting point despite stubbiness, though.
*Pretty bad stub, agreed. I'll add to "adopt an article" [[User:Kingboyk|kingboyk]] 19:23, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
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|[[Automatic double tracking]]||10 March 2006||{{A-Class}}||No||This article needs work. Its hard for me to say how close to the fringe this article is, considering that the Beatles were instrumental in the development and implementation of the subject. Certainly, I think that a link from within a more pivotal Beatles article is a requirement, if one doesn't exist already, and I'm actually tempted to suggest a merge. Probably best to leave it on its own though: there is plenty of material in it as a free-standing article. The article needs some colour though - in the form of sections and a photo if at all possible.
*I'm confused, why is this an A-class then? Sounds like maybe a B ?? <font color="green">[[User:Lar/Esperanza|+]]</font>+[[User:Lar|Lar]]: [[User_talk:Lar|t]]/[[Special:Contributions/Lar|c]] 00:50, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
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|[[Beatle Barkers]]||6 March 2006||style="background: deeppink; text-align: center;" | '''{{#if:|[[:Category:{{{category}}}|AfD]]|[[:Category:Articles for deletion|AfD]]}}'''||unknown||
*Outside scope?
*AFD?
I feel we as a Project don't have to take 'ownership' of this one. It's not a Beatles article, it's an article about an 'amusing' covers album.
I've tagged it with {{tld|importance}}; save for a badly worded IP edit saying it was played at parties in "rural Florida" and once got played on a student radio station, there's no assertion of notability. '''0 incoming links''' from mainspace.
Probably shouldn't be in category and I think it's a strong AFD candidate too (but I haven't Googled for it yet; waiting for others' comments first).
Update 22 Mar 06, result of AfD was keep. Suppose we have to take it under our wing? If so, what to do? It's a start class article at best. <font color="green">[[User:Lar/Esperanza|+]]</font>+[[User:Lar|Lar]]: [[User_talk:Lar|t]]/[[Special:Contributions/Lar|c]] 17:38, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
We might need a new category to put the Beatles-related stuff into (see discussion below at Beatlemania (musical)). For now, just regrade it as stub or start class or I guess. --[[User:Kingboyk|kingboyk]] 18:10, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
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|[[Beatle haircut]]||9 March 2006||{{Merge-Class}}||No||This article includes a photo (though possibly not the best choice?) and includes a lot of information for such a short article. It is an excellent 'stub', but I think it should be merged into an article about Beatles phenomena
*2nd opinion: I think this one is arguably best retained as is. --[[User:Kingboyk|kingboyk]] 04:59, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
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|[[Beatlemania]]||14 March 2006||{{Merge-Class}}||No||I first looked at this yesterday and didn't really know what to say. Of course Beatlemania is an important concept (although in a way it's just a word, a dictdef if you will). Strip out the list of chart performances <s>and the section on a musical of the same name (which needs its own article, or none at all if not notable)</s> and all we're left with is a couple of paragraphs. I've therefore added this to the new section at the bottom - articles which are about the general history of the Beatles, and which together form multiple merge candidates. '''Second opinions invited.'''||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[Beatlemania (musical)]]||14 March 2006||{{Start-Class}}||no||Maybe outside project scope, and is another article which belongs in a new subcategory ([[:Category:The Beatles related topics]]? [[:Category:Beatlecruft]]?). Decent start, beyond a stub, needs a cast photo or some other picture to brighten it up.||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[The Beatles Anthology]]||14 March 2006||{{B-Class}}||no||This feels like it should be 3 articles, or maybe 2, since there are DVDs and two different albums covered by the article. Somewhat unstructured but a lot of material there. Needs album and dvd covers
2nd opinion: The albums already have their own articles. I think this should be retained as an overview page but cleaned up. We can use the "main article" thing to point people to the articles on the albums. I'd favour one strong article (i.e. this one, expanded) on the TV series, DVDs and books. Can always be split out later if gets too large. ''Definitely needs a splash of colour''. --[[User:Kingboyk|kingboyk]] 05:08, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
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|[[The Beatles' London]]||12 March 2006||{{B-Class}}||no||A lot of interesting facts. But they're just scattered about with only minimal sorting, and no citations at all. I waffled between B and Start class, actually||[[User:Lar|Lar]]
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|<s>[[Beatles Ltd.]]</s>||9 March 2006||style="background: steelblue; text-align: center;" | '''<s>Merge</s>'''||Yes||This article definately merits merging with another article. Suggestions would be [[Brian Epstein]], [[The Beatles]], [[History of the Beatles]], [[Apple Corps]], or a new article denoting managerial aspects of the group and/or related companies.
'''Merged''' --[[User:Kingboyk|kingboyk]] 05:23, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
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|[[The Beatles record sales, worldwide charts]]||9 March 2006||style="background: cornflowerblue; text-align: center;" | '''Merge or Delete'''||Yes||This article has a lot of information in it. Much of the information is highly notable. To that end, I think it should be merged into a new article, for example [[Beatles trivia]] (see [[Pink Floyd trivia]]), an article about the success of the Beatles, or into an existing article.||[[User:setanta747|Mal]]
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|[[Beatlesque]]||14 March 2006||{{Merge-Class}}||no||Another horrible article and like [[Beatlemania]] I'm slightly at a loss as to what to suggest. It's part dictdef, part analysis of a real, enyclopedic concept, and part (muchly) fan cruft. Needs to be transwikied, trimmed, or merged. I think removing the cruft and merging the encyclopedic stuff somewhere might be best. '''Second opinions invited.''' A major problem with this article is that it seems to have degenerated into a list of various editors' remotely-Beatleesque favourite bands.||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[Pete Best]]||8 March 2006||{{B-Class}}||Yes||This article is an essential part of The Beatles project, but it could perhaps benefit from copyediting, some sources citing and perhaps a better picture or infobox at the top. Q: Was Best a member of The Silver Beetles?
*Silver Beetles was just a shortlived name for the same band. I don't see that it matters a great deal. I agree with Mal's rating but it's at the upper end of B class. This is one of the better "peripheral" Beatles articles we've evaluated so far. It's nowhere near A class, but it's a very decent start. [[User:Kingboyk|kingboyk]]
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|[[Birth of the Beatles]]||9 March 2006||{{B-Class}}||No||The article is basic, and will require some work to bring it up to standard. Possible NPOV problem with some of the content. Needs a photo. No sources or sections. I think this article is on the very fringe of scope, and should be included possibly in a category of independent films/documentaries about The Beatles.||[[User:Setanta747|Mal]]
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|[[The Bootleg Beatles]]||16 March 2006||{{B-Class}}||No||Needs a picture and a spring clean, but I'm not sure there's much more the article needs to say? Weak B-Class.||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[The Beatles bootlegs]]||14 March 2006||{{Start-Class}}||No||A lot of content but tagged for cleanup. Of course this is one of our merge targets. It was an unreleased bootleg song which landed us with all this work, remember? Article could use the attention of an expert.||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[The Beatles' influence on popular culture]]||16 March 2006||{{Start-Class}}||No||Start class, or merge. Has a NPOV tag. Low grade unloved article.||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit]]||16 March 2006||{{Start-Class}}||Yes||A good start. Has infobox and picture but not text.||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[The Butcher Cover]]||14 March 2006||style="background: steelblue; text-align: center;" | '''<s>Merge</s>'''||N/A||I've been bold and merged this into [[Yesterday . . . and Today]]||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[William Shears Campbell]]||14 March 2006||style="background: steelblue; text-align: center;" | '''<s>Merge</s>'''||no||Mostly-nonsense page relating to the [[Paul Is Dead]] hoax/theory. Suggest merge.||[[User:kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[Hunter Davies]]||9 March 2006||{{Stub-Class}}||No||This article is most definately a stub, and needs a lot of work. A photo of a book cover perhaps, and a change in Beatles categorisation ([[Beatles biographers]]?). It has a good selection of works section, complete with ISBNs.||[[User:Setanta747|Mal]]
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|[[Day by Day (music)]]|| ||{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[The Decca audition]]||9 March 2006||{{Merge-Class}}||No||This article has templates plastered all over it suggesting it needs cleaned up etc! It certainly needs a lot of work: sources, sections, possibly a photo of the old Decca logo of the time. It needs merged in any case, probably with [[History of The Beatles]].||[[User:Setanta747|Mal]]
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|[[The Beatles discography]]||6 March 2006||{{A-Class}}||No||Comprehensive list with a long introduction/overview. Needs a little tidying and towards the bottom some more pictures would add some welcome colour. I propose this to be our first featured list candidate.||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[Brian Epstein]]||9 March 2006||{{A-Class}}||No||I would place this article at the lower end of A-class. It needs sections, sources & citations, another photo (or infobox) at the top, copyediting and an expansion of the first paragraph to create a better introduction. As an extra comment here, I'd like to suggest that Epstein's interest in [[John Lennon]], from a sexual perspective, may well have been pivotal in his motivation to launch the band, as documented in a very comprehensive biography I read many years ago. Of course, a source for that would need to be cited, and the fact carefully edited to avoid any possibility of offence to any sexuality.||[[User:Setanta747|Mal]]
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|[[Mal Evans]]||5 April 2006||{{Start-Class}}||No||A decent article for this member of the Beatles' inner circle, but needs a good polish: a photo, sections, and references.||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|rowspan="2"|[[Exy]]||rowspan="2"|5 April 2006||{{Stub-Class}}||rowspan="2"|No||rowspan="2"|A stub, possible merge candidate. Talk page says the article creator actually intended it for Wiktionary! We need to document the Beatles' vitally important Hamburg residencies, but I don't think this article is too great on its own. A photo of the Exys may be too much for ask for.||rowspan="2"|[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[Fifth Beatle]]|| ||{{Start-Class}}||No||This is actually somewhere between start class and B-class. There's a decent bit of content, but only one source. The lead is practically non-existent, and half the article is in list form.||[[User:Johnleemk|Johnleemk]]
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|rowspan="2"|[[The Grey Video]] -- this has been moved to the bootlegs category
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||I am not totally convinced this belongs here but it does seem to fit [[:category:The Beatles bootlegs]] I guess. The article seems relatively poorly structured although I can't say quite why. There is a pending proposal to merge it with [[The Grey Album]] which has more info on the legal controversy and ramifications. I think the merge might be controversial, but it seems the way to go. I wish it wasn't in our area at all! Rather it was someone else's problem... Smile. Need to check if Grey Album is in the album list, I guess...
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||12 Mar 2006||I think it's one that belongs in the category but which is outside our project's scope for management, personally. Good album though. ||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[George Harrison]]||2 April 2006||{{A-Class}}||Yes||There is no official "References" section, and few, if any, in-line references, but the article is very well-rounded. It covers George's entire life: early life, life with the Beatles, and life by decades after that. It has a few pictures, mostly of him, but a few more wouldn't hurt. (Maybe some on the left side of the page?)||[[User:GPHemsley|Gordon]]
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|[[History of The Beatles]]||5 April 2006||{{Merge-Class}}||No||I'm gonna stick my neck on the line and say this article is '''crap'''. It's an essay not an article, it has no photos, it repeats a lot from other articles, and it's been neglected. Our big project - and it's gonna be a task and a half - is to look at this and similar forkish articles and merge them back into the main article or (because of probable size issues) re-fork from [[The Beatles]], ''seriously'' trimming the content in [[The Beatles]] to avoid this pointless overlap.
I'm certainly not proposing an AFD-style deletion of the article, but whether [[The Beatles]]' history section gets forked for a second time to here (with any good bits from [[History of The Beatles]] retained) or whether [[History of The Beatles]] gets replaced ''with a redirect'' must be up for discussion (see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Beatles/Article_Classification#The_big_ones]]). Note: Article was [[Talk:History of the Beatles/delete|nominated for deletion]] in 2004 and the same issues remain. The difference is we're now here and we're gonna do something about it! :-)
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|[[Astrid Kirchherr]]||6 March 2005||{{B-Class}}||No||Needs some sources and a photo, plus a little expansion. Beyond that I'm not sure if there's much more an enyclopedia needs to say about Astrid?||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[John Lennon]]||9 March 2006||{{A-Class}}||Yes||Pretty good article (it ought to be, it's one of the top 1/2 dozen articles of the project) but could use a fair bit of cleanup (and controversy/weaselword removal) to take it to FA. I don't think this should be a focus till more is done on others, though. ||[[User:Lar|Lar]]
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|[[Lennon-McCartney]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Richard Lester]]||23 March 2006||{{B-Class}}||no||Needs bio infobox and picture, which hold it back from "A". The reader is left with the sense that this is an important person but overall, not THAT important. (not Stanley Kubrick, for example) Is that correct? If so the level of detail is about right at the current depth level of Wikipedia. ||[[User:Lar|Lar]]
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|[[Mark Lewisohn]]||24 March 2006||{{Stub-Class}}||no||Although it has a picture, this is still a stub in my view, not too much info there, and it is stub tagged... needs an infobox bio too||[[User:Lar|Lar]]
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|[[Mersey Beat]]||14 Mar 2006||{{Stub-Class}}||N/A||A few facts, some good links but this article is little more than a stub. needs a cover and more info||[[User:Lar|Lar]]
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|[[The Beatles Story]]||14 Mar 2006||{{Stub-Class}}||N/A||(under M because it's a museum) There is nothing at all here! It could use a map, a link to more info, why this museum exists, etc...||[[User:Lar|Lar]]
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|[[Jimmy Nicol]]||16 March 2006||{{B-Class}}||No||Needs a photo.||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[Our World]]||16 March 2006||{{Start-Class}}||No||A very nice start article, with photo. However, it lacks info on the non-Beatles sections, nor does the article state which organisation organised the broadcast.||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[Larry Page (British singer and manager)]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown||And the connection to the Beatles is...? Name rings a bell, possibly because he shares name with a [[Google]] guy, possibly he was the manager of their early tours. Anyone? --[[User:Kingboyk|kingboyk]] 07:49, 16 March 2006 (UTC)|| |
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|[[Paul Is Dead]]||10 March 2006||{{A-Class}}||No||This is an excellent, if frivolous, article, brimming full with information. The drawback of this is that the TOC is quite long. I would suggest the merging of many of the sections in order to cut down on the TOC size. While the subject itself I would say is notable, it wouldn't be notable enough to warrant splitting any of the sections. It needs some tweaking, but not much, to gain FA status.
*I can see this one getting a front page slot, definitely. It's a fun and fluffy topic, and yet enyclopedic. [[User:Kingboyk|kingboyk]] 10:04, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
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|[[Norman Pilcher]]||16 March 2006||{{Stub-Class}}||No||The notorious drug bust Sgt. Pilcher. I'll be frank, the article's crap, rumour and unverified facts. Worth a cleanup though, as anyone who's watched ''Anthology'' will know.||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[Portal:The Beatles]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Billy Preston]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Billy Shears]]||16 Mar 2006||style="background: steelblue; text-align: center;" | '''<s>Merge</s>'''||No||Piece of nonsense/fancruft. Suggest merge to [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]].||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[Norman Smith]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Star-Club]]||16 Mar 2006||{{B-Class}}||No||Covers the basics. Needs a photo.||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|rowspan="2"|[[Ringo Starr]]||14 Mar 2006||rowspan="2" {{B-Class}}||rowspan="2"|Yes||OK, I am going out on a limb here, and this may get me some flamage. I gave this a B!!! It's a big long article, but in my view the initial part is just a bit too breathless. Lots of subjective evaluation of his abilities, and no cites. The tail of the article is a bit disorganised too. For one of our top 10 (top 5??) articles, it can be better, lots better. Flame away.||[[User:Lar|Lar]]
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|7 April 2006||I agree with Lar's assessment and would like to emphasise that there seems to be a lot of subjective uncited opinion in this article. I'm sure we can find written opinion on Ringo's qualities and/or deficiecies as a drummer, his evolution etc., without having to rely on editorial opinion.||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[Strawberry Field]]||7 April 2006||{{Merge-Class}}||No||Stub article about the Strawberry Field orphanage in Liverpool. Suggest leaving the category memberships in place and merging the text into [[Strawberry Fields Forever]]||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]|
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|[[Stuart Sutcliffe]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Alistair Taylor]]||6 March 2006||{{Stub-Class}}||no||Even with [[A Secret History]] now merged in, it's a stub. Have added it to the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Beatles#Adopt_an_article|adopt an article list]].||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[Tittenhurst Park]]||14 Mar 2006||{{Start-Class}}||N/A||Has a few nuggets, but needs a map, dates for Ringo's tenure etc. The lead sentence talks about John but neglects to mention Ringo who owned it for far longer. Some photos would help too.||[[User:Lar|Lar]]
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|[[Ivan Vaughan]]||16 March 2005||{{Stub-Class}}||No||Nasty stub. Reads like a tribute piece, needs sources. Needs a photo. ''If'' we have articles on the individual Quarrymen, this article should be moved to [[:Category:The Quarrymen]].||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|rowspan="2"|[[Klaus Voormann]]||05 March 2005||{{B-Class}}||no (needs bio box)||A good article. Clearly shows significance and influence. Could stand some subsectioning. A picture or artwork sample would be great. (would an album cover be allowed under fair use?)||[[User:Lar|Lar]]
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||6 March 2006||{{Start-Class}}||No||Lacking a discography. Needs sections. ''Seriously'' needs some photos because - as [[George Harrison]] said about Klaus - everybody's heard about him but most people haven't seen him. Could use some examples of his artwork (e.g. ''Revolver'' and ''Anthology'' covers, some of his other art, it would be fair use I think). Needs expansion - there's lots of factoids and no real narrative.
Klaus Voorman is a ''major'' figure in the Beatles history - he's touched their lives for nigh on 40 years - and he deserves a strong article, ''much'' stronger than this.
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|[[Ye Cracke]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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Articles in Category:The Beatles albums edit
Another large and key list of articles. Articles in this list should almost always have an {{Infobox Album}} in them.
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|[[1 (album)]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[20 Greatest Hits]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Abbey Road (album)]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| ||
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|[[Anthology 1]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| ||
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|[[Anthology 2]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| ||
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|[[Anthology 3]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| ||
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|[[Beatlemania! With the Beatles]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Beatles '65]]||9 March 2006||{{B-Class}}||Yes||The single para of info has a strong POV (true though it may be) and not a lot of discussion as to WHY Capitol did what they did (which would need sourcing if it was added). Still, it has an info box which raises it above Start class anyway.||[[user:Lar|Lar]]
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|[[The Beatles 1962-1966]]||10 March 2006||{{B-Class}}||Yes||This article is sparse, but I fail to see how much more could be added to the text of a cimpilation album such as this. Certainly, as far as I'm aware, these two albums were probably responsible to some degree for introducing many people of Generation X to the Beatles, and they are a reasonably good cross-section of Beatles songs - particularly their hits. This article will probably never reach FA status.
*As with other compilations, agreed that there's a limit to what can be said. Some quotations from reviews and commentary on historical perspective is possible though. I think a ''lot'' of people came to the Beatles via Red and Blue. I know I did. I'll add these two to the adopt an article list. --[[User:Kingboyk|kingboyk]] 06:15, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
||[[User:Setanta747|Mal]]
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|[[The Beatles 1967-1970]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[The Beatles Anthology]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Beatles VI]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Beatles for Sale]]||6 March 2006||{{GA-Class}}||Yes||It's missing something, since it failed FAC. Methinks it could use a few more reviews (which I, alas, am ill-equipped to find) and another eye to look over it for possible minor mistakes.
[[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Beatles for Sale/archive1]]
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|[[The Beatles' Ballads]]||6 March 2006||{{Start-Class}}||Yes||Good starting point with the tracklist, but only other piece of useful information not in the infobox is that the cover was a candidate to be the White Album cover. Not much else in the article.
*Not sure what else there is to say about it? Some reviews and commentary from the time perhaps. --[[User:Kingboyk|kingboyk]] 05:40, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
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|[[The Beatles (album)]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[The Capitol Albums, Volume 1]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[The Capitol Albums, Volume 2]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[A Collection of Beatles Oldies]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[The Early Beatles]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[The Beatles' Christmas Album]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[A Hard Day's Night (album)]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Help! (album)]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Hey Jude (album)]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Introducing... The Beatles]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Let It Be (album)]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Let It Be… Naked]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Live at the BBC (The Beatles album)|Live at the BBC]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Live at the Star Club: 1962]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[The Beatles' Long Tall Sally]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Love Songs (The Beatles)]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Magical Mystery Tour (album)]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Meet the Beatles!]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Past Masters, Volume One]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Past Masters, Volume Two]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Please Please Me]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Rarities (Beatles compilation)]]||23 March 2006||{{B-Class}}||yes||A very respectable B. Good writeup of background, well filled infobox, and the track details have lots of tidbits (and contrast with the US version). A fine article. One that maybe may never need aspire to more, not sure.||[[User:Lar|Lar]]
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|[[Rarities (American Beatles compilation)]]||23 March 2006||{{B-Class}}||yes||As above A very respectable B. Good writeup of background, well filled infobox, and the track details have lots of tidbits (and contrast with the UK version). A fine article. One that maybe may never need aspire to more, not sure.||[[User:Lar|Lar]]
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|[[Reel Music]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Revolver (album)]]||29 March 2006||{{B-Class}}||Yes||No references. These are crucial, as otherwise much of the description/interpretation of the songs is either POV, OR or both. The tone seems a bit deferential, and the drug influences section doesn't flow too well.||[[User:Johnleemk|Johnleemk]]
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|[[Rock 'n' Roll Music]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Rubber Soul]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[The Beatles' Second Album]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]||30 April 2006||{{GA-Class}}||Yes||Very good, comprehensive article that covers the wide range of influences, technical details, as well as less musical details (album cover, etc.) Needs an expanded "Awards" section, expanded section about the movie, and cleanup of the short sections near the bottom. Also, perhaps more references (only 4 for a rather long article)
I agree with El Slameron (who rated it B). It does however have the GA badge, so I've changed the rating. It's rather high on red links and the total absence of footnotes doesn't suggest an FAC to me just yet. The GA badge is a very good start though. --[[User:Kingboyk|kingboyk]] 20:22, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
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|[[Something New (album)]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[The Beatles' Story]]||4 March 2006||{{Start-Class}}||Yes||A very weak article, not much more than the box itself. <s>Needs some background on why this album was even released.</s>
That's easy. It was the first wave of Beatlemania in the USA and they needed product. Money, in a word. Nice album though. --[[User:Kingboyk|kingboyk]] 16:35, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
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|[[The Beatles Box Set]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[The Beatles Collection]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Twist and Shout (Beatles Canada album)]]||7 March 2006||{{Start-Class}}||Yes (incomplete)||Hardly touched since 2004. Has a picture, infobox and tracklisting (minus wikilinks). Needs some reviews and some comments on it's place in the Beatles canon, how it was received by the Canadian music press and public and so on. Or, if it really made little impact at all, the article needs to say that instead. Not too keen on the article name. [[Twist and Shout (Beatles album, Canada)]] maybe?||[[User:Kingboyk|Steve]]
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|[[With the Beatles]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Yellow Submarine (album)]]|| ||{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Unknown}}||unknown|| || |
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|[[Yesterday . . . and Today ]]||29 March 2006||{{B-Class}}||Yes||Covers the salient points of the butcher cover, but little else. No references, nothing on chart performance. An "Overview" section should be unnecessary if the article has a lead section; should it be retitled?||[[User:Johnleemk|Johnleemk]]
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Not yet in table: Apple Records discography - US singles discography complete. UK has just been added, but needs formatting to match US section and wikilinks. --kingboyk 17:52, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Note: rest of tables were obsolete (we abandoned this approach) and were removed. This makes the page easier to edit.