Talk:A.M. (Wilco album)

Good article nomination on hold

This article's Good Article promotion has been put on hold. During review, some issues were discovered that can be resolved without a major re-write. This is how the article, as of July 11, 2007, compares against the six good article criteria:

1. Well written?: Overall good. Many of these things are incidental, but the last one is a little more involved.

• "It was the last album to be recorded in an alternative country style." This is doubtful. I think it should clarify that it was the last of this band's albums that was alternative country.
• I would rework the first paragraph under Context and recording, since, in its current state, it is chronologically backwards, which makes it a little anti-climatic. I would reword it like this:

  Uncle Tupelo's last album, Anodyne, featured a new lineup for the band —- a five-piece outfit with drummer Ken Coomer (who replaced original drummer Mike Heidorn), bassist John Stirratt, and multi-instrumentalist Max Johnston. On May 1, 1994, Uncle Tupelo played a concert in support of the album at Mississippi Nights in St. Louis, Missouri. Tensions had been mounting between singers Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy, and the concert included the two musicians singing an equal amount of songs. The concert would prove to be Uncle Tupelo's last.

• "performed mastering" sounds odd. I would say mastered the album, and you can still wikilink it.
• "Tweedy attempted to create a" would better be "Tweedy also attempted to create a" since it's his second effort mentioned in the paragraph.
• "selected to appear on the album. It is the only song written by Stirratt to appear on any Wilco album." — To be more concise, change to "selected to appear on the album, and was the only song Stirratt song to appear on any Wilco album."
• "Jay Farrar had formed" should be "Jay Farrar formed"
• Remove this sentence:

  Farrar was able to persuade Mike Heidorn out of retirement to drum for the band, and also added Dave and Jim Boquist to the lineup.

  (this band is only mentioned show the rivalry, but extensive information about their lineup, etc... is unnecessary.
• "felt that the band was taking" — which band?
• The paragraph that begins "The album's title is intended..." should precede the paragraph that begins "While Wilco was recording tracks.." so as not to split up the info on the album creation.
• In the section "Commercial and critical reception" their is too much information on Trace, or, more importantly, the information take precedence over AM. For example, out of the gate the paragraph reads "On September 19, 1995, Son Volt released Trace on Warner Brothers. Trace was met with good reviews..." While I certainly see the relevance of Trace to to A.M., this article is about A.M., and Trace info should be secondary. I almost failed the article over this, but thought you all might be able to fix it in a week.

2. Factually accurate?: Good! Short article with an abundance of IC's and referencing (including a dead tree reference!).

3. Broad in coverage?: Good here as well.

4. Neutral point of view?: Good here.

5. Article stability? No edit wars, only productive edits by (at least one) dedicated editor. Good.

6. Images?: Image:Wilco.gif has no fair use rationale, and that is actually grounds for failure, but I think you can fix it in a week.

• Fixed Teemu08

Please address these matters soon and then leave a note here showing how they have been resolved. After 48 hours the article should be reviewed again. If these issues are not addressed within 7 days, the article may be failed without further notice. Thank you for your work so far. — Esprit15d (talk ¤ contribs) 13:16, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I fixed all of the grammatical suggestions. I'm paging through my sources, trying to find more informations about the album where its not being compared to Trace, but I'm not having much luck so far. Teemu08 22:34, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

The problem is not in the comparison to Trace. The problem is that the section is primarily about Trace with a passing mention about A.M.. The solution is in style and editing, not in information. If casual readers stumbled across that section without having read the article, they would think they are reading an article about Trace that happens to mention the album A.M. It should be the other way around.--Esprit15d (talk ¤ contribs) 13:06, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I just took another look at it, and it has improved dramatically. I'll re-review the article after the 48 hrs are up. I will be going out of town, so if don't hear anything in a couple days, feel fee to invite someone else take a look at it.--Esprit15d (talk ¤ contribs) 13:09, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

GA hold follow-up

I would like to say that this article has seen significant improvement, and I am promoting it to GA status. There are two more very tiny things I noticed that will need correcting. Otherwise great job:

• "the only song Stirratt song to appear" - needs to be fixed
• I would remove the heading Promotional tour, as one paragraph subheadings are generally looked down on, except in rare cases, and I would say this is not one of them. The paragraph can just as will sit their without the heading.

Again - congratulations!--Esprit15d (talk ¤ contribs) 18:32, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

• • Fixed and fixed. Danke. Teemu08 20:19, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

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GA Sweeps

This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. Strictly speaking though, the article should have contained information also on singles to be complete (there seems to have been only one). Lampman (talk) 20:54, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Actually I now see there's one short sentence. There's probably not much more to say, since it never charted. Lampman (talk) 21:05, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

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