Talk:The Balkan Girls

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Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
June 17, 2018	Good article nominee	Listed
August 7, 2019	Good topic candidate	Promoted
October 28, 2022	Good topic removal candidate	Demoted

Current status: Good article

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GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: MarioSoulTruthFan (talk · contribs) 02:07, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I will be reviewing your GA nomination over the next couple of days. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 02:07, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox[edit]

Cat → Cay Music

"Music" or "Records" should not be included in the infobox per Wikipedia's guidelines. Cartoon network freak (talk) 08:43, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 12:55, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lead[edit]

"The Balkan Girls" is a song recorded by Romanian singer Elena Gheorghe" → remove "recorded"

Done

"Written by Laurențiu Duță" → It was Written by Laurențiu Duță

Done

"Music critics generally gave the song favorable review, praising its beat and catchiness" → Music critics generally gave the song mixed reviews, praising its beat while criticizing for its cheesiness.

Done

"music video released in March 2009." → add something summarizing what the video is about.

Done Cartoon network freak (talk) 08:48, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Background and release[edit]

"and third record" → and her third record

Done

The sample should be here.

Done Cartoon network freak (talk) 08:49, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reception and accolades[edit]

"In his book, Handbuch der Eurolinguistik (Handbook of Eurolinguistics), Uwe Hinrichs cited the " → Uwe Hinrichs, in his book, Handbuch der Eurolinguistik (Handbook of Eurolinguistics), cited the... (otherwise seems like its the book belonging to the previous author.)

Done

"the Azerbaijani entrants in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009" → explain relevancy?

Done Yeah, it's not relevant actually, you're right. Removed. Cartoon network freak (talk) 08:51, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Music video and promotion[edit]

followed by its YouTube release the following day → followed by its YouTube release the next day (avoid repetition of vocabulary)

Done

Bucharest's Silver Church club → Bucharest's Silver Church Club

Done

female dancers and dances there with fellow dancers→ female dancers and dances there with fellow dancers → same as the first one, "dance, dancers, dances..."

Done Reworded. Cartoon network freak (talk) 08:53, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

At Eurovision[edit]

National selection[edit]

Fine.

In Moscow[edit]

Fine.

Points awarded to Romania[edit]

Fine.

Track listing[edit]

Fine.

Charts[edit]

Fine.

Release history[edit]

Cat → Cat Music

References[edit]

Is this some sort of new practice to wikilink everything? Even if it is the same magazine, website...I'm honestly asking.

I think this is actually a much better practice, as the user does not access the refs in order, so it may happen that he accesses one reference for the first time and the publisher is not linked there, because it has been linked in an earlier ref (which does not help in this case). This is the purpose of this linking. I'm sure I saw this type of linking on several articles I've edited on. Cartoon network freak (talk) 08:56, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

So did I. I'm not opposed to that, I just have a different experience and you have a good point. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 13:01, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Overall[edit]

@Cartoon network freak: Sorry it took so long, thank you for being so patient. The article is quite outstanding, minor issues and it is passed. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 23:39, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@MarioSoulTruthFan: Hi there and thank you very much for taking time to review my article. I have responded to your comments above. Best regards; Cartoon network freak (talk) 08:57, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]