Talk:The Beautiful People (song)/GA1

GA Reassessment

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Commencing GA reassessment as part of the GA Sweeps process. ✽ Juniper§ Liege ^(TALK) 20:54, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

• References 4, 16, 10 are no longer active and are dead links. ✽ Juniper§ Liege ^(TALK) 21:01, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

• "...which exposed the world of scandal within the "jet-set" lifestyle of the 1960s, and the culture of beauty as it pertained to fashion and politics." This sentence requires a source about the novel.

• "The phrase itself was popularized by Vogue magazine in the early 1960s and was particularly used to describe the Kennedy family, a frequent source of inspiration in Marilyn Manson's work." - also requires a source to substantiate the information therein. ✽ Juniper§ Liege ^(TALK) 21:06, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

• "The song's characteristic element is its repetitive drum track, a five-beat common time pattern played on floor toms, in which swung notes create a triplet feel." - requires a source to substantiate the claim that the repetitive drum track is the song's "characteristic" element. ✽ Juniper§ Liege ^(TALK) 21:09, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

To uphold the quality of Wikipedia:Good articles, all articles listed as Good articles are being reviewed against the GA criteria as part of the GA project quality task force. While all the hard work that has gone into this article is appreciated, unfortunately, as of February 18, 2010, this article fails to satisfy the criteria, as detailed below. For that reason, the article has been delisted from WP:GA. However, if improvements are made bringing the article up to standards, the article may be nominated at WP:GAN. If you feel this decision has been made in error, you may seek remediation at WP:GAR. This action has been taken immediately because of the substantial problems afflicting this article. The article requires extensive attention and improvement, and is very unlikely to be brought up to GA standard within 7 days. The article has failed GA criteria per the review set out below:

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose):

   • The article is generally well written; however the lead includes information that is not contained within the article's body. The lead should only summarise content located in the article itself. See WP:LEAD

   b (MoS):

   • Conforms to manual of style. Problems with overlinking have been remedied.

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references):

   • The article lacks references for much material. In addition, important sources that are cited are no longer active references. The material cited to these sources needs to be either removed or tracked to a different source.

   b (citations to reliable sources):

   • Citations are to third party publications.

   c (OR):

   • No evidence of OR.

3. It is broad in its scope.

   a (major aspects):

   • Addresses major aspect of article subject matter.

   b (focused):

   • Remains focused. No digressions.

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy:

   • No issues concerning POV evident.

5. It is stable:

   • No edit wars etc.

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales):

   • Images are properly tagged and justified.

   b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

   • Images are accompanied by contextual captions.

7. Overall:

   Keep/Delist: DELIST ✽ Juniper§ Liege ^(TALK) 22:42, 18 February 2010 (UTC)