Talk:Bad Romance

Composition

• http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/03/lady_gaga_s_bad_romance_owen_pallett_explains_the_pop_diva_s_genius_using.2.html
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-story-behind-lady-gagas-bad-romance-video/

—Indian:BIO ^{[ ChitChat ]} 19:11, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Release history

FrB.TG Hey! I see that you're working on this article, which is very cool - good work! But I see also that you removed various things from "Release history" section. And when I'd agree of removal of eBay, then I don't get why you removed French and Italian radio impact dates - they were sourced by sites agreed to be reliable (Pure Charts, EarOne). From what I see, Fnac is not user-generated, but I might be wrong about it. infsai (talkie? UwU) 01:28, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Infsai. I rechecked Fnac; it seems you are right. The CD purchase was posted officially by Interscope so this should be restored. As for Pure Charts and EarOne, I didn't find any indication that the sources are high-quality reliable (which goes against the 1c FAC criterion). FrB.TG (talk) 15:50, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

This is the source I removed. Checking it again, it seems the CD is sold by a user called momox, making it a user-generated content. FrB.TG (talk) 16:22, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

@FrB.TG: Okay, so I'll start with something that I'm 100% sure that's true - EarOne is considered as a reliable source according to WP:SINGLE?. For Pure Charts, all I can say is the fact that many articles use it as a source for not only radio impact date (e.g. "Love Again (Dua Lipa song)") but sometimes as a primary single release source (e.g. "Free Woman" or "I'll Never Love Again"), so or all of those articles are wrong or I don't know. Thanks for replying and clearing info about that Fnac source! (And sorry if my grammar is bad right now, but I'm tired...) infsai (talkie? UwU) 23:28, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Okay, I am convinced of EarOne's reliability. It's been mentioned in RTL 102.5, ReveNews and Radio Italia. As for Pure Charts, it being used in other articles doesn't justify its presence here. For starters, their website is not even secure and nothing I read about it truly convinces me of its reliability. FrB.TG (talk) 08:54, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Hmm, okay then. I guess it'll be a good time to bring Pure Charts for a discussion. But hence you removed it from the article, please change the release date back to October 23, since October 19 was a date that was "indicated" by Pure Charts. Thanks! infsai (talkie? UwU) 05:39, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

We still have a source for the October 19 (#7) release. :) FrB.TG (talk) 12:58, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

Oh, interesting. infsai (talkie? UwU) 14:39, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

Image usage

I have removed File:Lady Gaga BR GMA.jpg from the "Critical reception" section. I had discussed this in the article's FAC and my rationale is an image of a live performance is not relevant to a section about reviews. An image used in this section should be related to the actual prose, and I do not see the connection. The image seems more decorative than informative in my opinion. I am pinging the editor who removed the image (@Sricsi: with this edit) as well as the FAC nominator (@FrB.TG:).

I do not see a clear rationale for Sricsi's edit, but I want to hear from them and give them the space to discuss this further. To answer their edit summary, there are plenty of song FAs from the past two or three decades that only use a single performance image. See articles like "Blank Space", "Shake It Off", "Dance in the Dark", etc. I am posting this on the talk page as I want to open a dialogue about this point rather than just remove and potentially cause further issues. Open communication and discussion is vital for Wikipedia and I want to make sure I do my part in keeping that up. Aoba47 (talk) 18:43, 2 October 2022 (UTC)