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Former featured articleRoy Orbison is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.
Main Page trophyThis article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on December 6, 2005.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
January 19, 2004Refreshing brilliant proseKept
December 20, 2005Featured article reviewDemoted
On this day...A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on April 23, 2020.
Current status: Former featured article


Well done and comprehensive

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This is a great article! I learned a lot from reading it, even as a big fan. It should be nominated for one of Wikipedia's good article categories.

Beautiful nonsense

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When compared to the Everly Brothers, who often used the same session musicians, Orbison is credited with "a passionate intensity" that, according to The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, made "his love, his life, and, indeed, the whole world [seem] to be coming to an end—not with a whimper, but an agonized, beautiful bang".

This is the kind of thing a very advanced algorithm produces these days. Apparently, you can't earn yourself an agonized bang recycling the tried and true. Or something to that effect—inscrutable to mere human comprehension. — MaxEnt 00:27, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nobbled?

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It looks like this page and other Orbison-related pages have been nobbled by or on behalf of someone called Marcel Riesco. He has inserted his name as an official biographer into the text of the articles, and also alongside authors' names in the references. According to the Library Of Congress catalogue data, the official biography was written by three of Orbison's sons and Jeff Slate, with Riesco credited as a researcher or contributor (but not on the front cover). Credit where credit's due, but his name shouldn't be more prominent than the authors'. DavidFarmbrough (talk) 17:42, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Update - I have made about forty edits on various Orbison pages and pages relating to individual songs and albums, some containing multiple instances of this name. It's possible someone might try to revert them. DavidFarmbrough (talk) 21:26, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Associated acts

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There's no way Orbison is associated (according to the guideline) with all those acts. - FlightTime (open channel) 02:06, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]