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Reviewer: Cartoon network freak (talk · contribs) 14:26, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]


Hello! Here's my review of your article, which is quite nice:

Lead

  • box set by Icelandic musician -> box set recorded by Icelandic recording artist
  • This would alter the meaning of the sentence, as if Björk had recorded the entire box set specifically for its release.
  • Björk, released on -> Björk. It was released...
  • It is a collection -> Surrounded remains a collection
  • Hmm, "remains" is not equivalent to "is". Surrounded remains a collection would mean "it continues/stays a collection", which doesn't make any sense.
  • one side contains the -> one side features the
  • If you insist, I'll change this, but I deliberately didn't use "features" as it is used later in the paragraph, in "additional features".
  • longplayers; the other -> longplayers, while the other one
  • While it did -> While the box set did
  • record chart -> record charts
  • Most applauded its -> Most of them were positive towards its...

Content and release

  • of seven Björk studio albums -> of seven of Björk's studio albums
  • Add the year of release to every album listed with "()"
  • on the latter -> on the latter one
  • 'Latter' is grammatically correct already.
  • describes -> described
  • work as a -> work on the album as a
  • adding it provides -> with him as well confessing that it provides
  • A tip: with [verb]ing should be avoided, and "as well" is redundant. I find 'confessing' to be a rather personal verb so it would be inappropriate to use here.
  • of each album -> of each album's singles
  • says -> praised by commending that it
  • This is a quite long and redundant structure. 'Commending' is just reinforcing the idea that it was praised, so it can be removed.

Critical reception

  • Change all to past tense
  • writing in -> writing for
  • it "revitalizes some of the most ambitious pop music of the last 13 years." -> it as naming it "some of the most ambitious pop music of the last 13 years."
  • This would be poor prose, as well as misinterpretating what Pytlik wrote in his review. He doesn't call Surrounded itself that, he's referring to what it contains.
  • stating, "The work and its evolution speaks for itself. (...) Too bad the hardware doesn't." -> stating that "the work and its evolution speaks for itself. [...] Too bad the hardware doesn't."
  • that is redundant.


@Prism: Congratulations, your GAN has just passed! By the way, are you also a GA reviewer? When yes, I would appreciate if you would find time to review my GAN of I Am the Club Rocker. Best regards, Cartoon network freak (talk) 18:42, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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.