Talk:These Days (Powderfinger song)

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Former good articleThese Days (Powderfinger song) was one of the Music good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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December 2, 2007Good article nomineeListed
January 31, 2013Good article reassessmentDelisted
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Good Article Review - On Hold

An alright article for the most part, just some minor wrinkles that need to be ironed out:

  • In the first sentence, one might want to add what type of genre it falls into '...is a rock song' or '...is a song from rock band Powderfinger'
 Done -
Dihydrogen Monoxide ♫ 00:38, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply
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  • The "see 2000 in music" is pretty irrelevant
 Done -
Dihydrogen Monoxide ♫ 00:38, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply
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  • "The lyrics of "These Days" were similarly styled to those of other songs written by Fanning between the production of Internationalist and Odyssey Number Five, such as "Passenger" and "My Kind of Scene" could be interpreted as a POV statement. A reference to back that up (maybe an AMG article that connects the songs) would be great.
 Done -
Dihydrogen Monoxide ♫ 00:38, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply
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  • "He also said that some people described the album as the most "melancholy", whilst others said it was the most "hopeful" they had heard in a long time" I don't see how the statement really connects to this article. If it is an integral bit of information, tie it in somehow.
 Done -
Dihydrogen Monoxide ♫ 00:38, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply
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  • "was released whilst Powderfinger were undertaking their "P2K tour" - 'whilst' needs to be replaced with 'while' and 'undertaking' with 'playing' or change the sentence to '...was released while Powderfinger was promoting their P2K tour'
 Done -
Dihydrogen Monoxide ♫ 00:38, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply
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  • "Fanning would go on to take numerous other jabs at Ben Lee - in 2005 he called Lee a "precocious little cunt"" should be rephrased top "Fanning continued to publicly insult Lee, eventually calling him a "precocious little cunt" during a 2005 interview/press release with/during/for [insert place or media outlet]"
 Done -
Dihydrogen Monoxide ♫ 00:38, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply
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  • You may want to add some response from critics (i.e, AMG, Times, EW, NME, etc.; anything that may have commented on the album should be in the "response" section).
Doing that now.
Dihydrogen Monoxide ♫ 00:38, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply
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Couldn't find anything specifically discussing the song :(
Dihydrogen Monoxide ♫ 01:30, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply
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Once everything I have outlined is addressed, I'll pass this article. NSR77 TC 23:46, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Passed. NSR77 TC 16:22, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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  • The lead does not meet
    WP:LEAD
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  • Large amounts of the article appear to be unsourced.
  • The article is not broad in its coverage and appears to be missing information.
  • Two dead links which fail
    WP:V
    .

Seven days to fix the issues. Till 03:04, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry but seven days later and I still don't think that it meets Good Article standards. For example, there are a bunch of sentences which are unsourced, such as "Fanning alone performed a sombre acoustic guitar version of the song at a live benefit concert in the days following the 2002 Bali bombings." and "The song was voted at #21 in the Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, 2009, where it was the second-highest placed Australian single in the countdown." The prose is confusing in places, such as "...which contains a line from These Days is sung in hip-hop style early in its lyrics." Also, if a music video was shot, wouldn't there be more information to write about? The only sentence in that section is "A music video was produced to promote the single."—Well, that's nice, but does not really tell much to the reader. I have decided to delist this article as a GA because I consider these real issues, if anyone disagrees with my decision it can be appealed at

WP:GAR. Till 09:13, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply
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The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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