Talk:Is This the Life We Really Want?

Is This the Life We Really Want? was nominated as a Music good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (September 3, 2019). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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To-do list:

Fair use

Add fair use rationale to all images and sound samples (all except images already labeled free use).
Re-size large images around to 300 pixels (all "fair use" images), other than album covers (already done).

Articles

Expand all articles to at least Start class. Some song stubs can't be expanded and should be redirected to the relevant album article. Use the "Interstellar Overdrive" article as an example when editing a song stub.
Expand all of the Floyd's studio album articles to at least GA status.
See COTM for monthly collabs.

Project building

Add WikiProject Pink Floyd banner {{WPFloyd}} to all appropriate Talk pages.
Personally invite quality editors working on Pink Floyd articles to join the project.

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Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi Roger. Hope all is well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.76.124.213 (talk) 15:41, 29 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Is This the Life We Really Want?/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: MarioSoulTruthFan (talk · contribs) 18:53, 2 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Infobox

No source backing the genre "Progressive rock"
No source backing the recording "2010–2017"

Lead

This lead is terrible it adresses next no nothing but the singles and the theme section. Should be a summary of the article, it doesn't adress the critical reception and only two of the charts.
Needs to be fully re-worked.

Recording

pared-back → meaning?
"encourage him, to push him a little bit. He encouraged" → avoid repetition of vocabulary
"Godrich used tape loops and found sounds extensively to make the album's segues." → needs more explanation due to the technical vocabulary, making it easier for those who are not inside the industry

Themes

Fine

Release

"The album peaked at number 3 in the United Kingdom and number 11 in the United States." → source
"It produced four singles: "Smell the Roses", "Déjà Vu", "The Last Refugee", and "Wait for Her"." → same as previous, release dates for instance
If I were you I would create a commercial performance section with the charts peaks, weeks and certifications, and a background section where you can add the rest.
Very poor

Critical reception

"The music is quintessential post-Dark Side Of The Moon Floyd, but channeled by offspring: producer Nigel Godrich brings prog-rock grandeur, multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Wilson microdose psychedelia, Lucius alt-R&B backing vocals." → use your own words more often
Drowned in Sound, Consequence of Sound and Pitchfork reviews → same as previous, just straight copy and paste.
Missing several reviews that could be added from the boxscore, very incomplete and poor.

Track listing

"All tracks written by Roger Waters, except "Wait for Her", written by Waters & Mahmoud Darwish." → use album liner notes as a source

Personnel

Use {{spaced ndash}} so there is space on both sides

Weekly charts

Irish and UK Charts are not well formated, missing dates.
French Albums → peaks is number three and not number two

Year-end charts

The Italian Albums (FIMI) the file is corrupted, can't oppen properly.

Certifications

Fine

References

No authors in several articles that have so such as Rolling Stone, Spin, Fact Magazine, among others
Missing several dates, access dates, works/websites, over and under linking
chicagotribune.com → Chicago Tribune
pitchfork.com → Pitchfork

External links

Remove everything but the Discogs and the promo video from YouTube.

Overall

How about adding a release history and commercial performance?
High copy past, according to Earwig's from Rolling Stone, for example.
The article is far from meeting the criteria as it doesn't comply with the manual of style guidelines, the references are not formatted according to the layout style guideline, it contains copyright violations and finally, it is not broad in its coverage. This article shouldn't even be nominated in the first place. Failing it. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 12:17, 3 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

"Is the life we really want" listed at Redirects for discussion

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Is the life we really want. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 September 21#Is the life we really want until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Popcornfud (talk) 10:41, 21 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

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