Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Teen Idles/archive1

The Teen Idles

Nominator(s): CloudNine (talk)

• Featured article candidates/The Teen Idles/archive1

An article I wrote about a fairly obscure (yet very important) D.C. hardcore punk band a while back, that I feel is comprehensive, well-written and easy-to-read. There's a lack of free images on the subject, but I feel the article reads well without them. Hopefully this candidacy will motivate me back into editing Wikipedia regularly. CloudNine (talk) 23:53, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Oppose I understand that this may not be a solvable problem, but I simply don't think this can be a featured article with no images. Does not fulfill Criteria 3 for that reason. Criteria 3 doesn't say anything about it being ok to not have images if none can be found after all. Cream147 _{Shout at me for doing wrong} 01:04, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

• But it doesn't say that a featured article should have images, which is the key thing here. I've read a number of featured articles that have none (because they either don't apply or there are no free ones). CloudNine (talk) 13:38, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

• CloudNine is correct - images are not required for an article to become FA. Awadewit (talk) 14:38, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

• But the criteria states that images should be used where appropriate, and images would most certainly be appropriate here. At least one in the infobox I would've thought Cream147 _{Shout at me for doing wrong} 13:11, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Comments -

• http://www.dischord.com/band/teenidles deadlinks
  • Fixed; dischord.com added a hyphen to the URL. CloudNine (talk) 14:47, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
• What makes http://www.threatbase.com/ a reliable source?
  • Removed; the sentence it was linked to was cited already by Azerrad anyway, so it didn't add much. CloudNine (talk) 14:47, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Otherwise, sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. On the picture issue, pictures are not a requirement, the criteria merely says "where appropriate". Ealdgyth - Talk 14:18, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

• Please review the dab links in the tool box, and be aware of WP:ACCESS and WP:DASH. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:09, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
  • I actually removed the only dab while you were presumably writing that (my mind-reading skills are still up to scratch). Any particular points I need to address w.r.t WP:ACCESS? CloudNine (talk) 17:24, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

• Comments — Some things I noticed at a brief glance:
• The Teen Idles history began when Washingtonian Ian MacKaye discovered punk rock through a local college radio station, Georgetown University's WGTB. - "The Teen Idles history began" → "The Teen Idles began".
  • Technically the Teen Idles (as a band) didn't form then, but the history behind it began. Is there a better way of phrasing it?
• The two became friends and quickly discovered their shared interest in punk. MacKaye and Nelson saw their first punk show in January 1979 — a benefit concert by The Cramps for WGTB. - Em dashes are unspaced.
  • Fixed.
• The Slinkees then renamed themselves The Teen Idles. - Remove "then".
  • Fixed.
• After about a dozen concerts, opening for bands such as the Untouchables, The Teen Idles decided to tour the West Coast in August 1980. - "A dozen" → "12.
  • Fixed.

–Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 17:45, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

• • Hopefully I've addressed at least some of the issues. Thanks for the review. CloudNine (talk) 18:10, 8 November 2008 (UTC)