Talk:Dru Hill

Dru Hill was one of the Music good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
January 1, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
August 30, 2007	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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Druid Hill Park

I'm new to Wikipedia, but how come this article mentions that Dru Hill named themselves after Druid Hill Park but Druid Hill Park is not written as a blue-colored link to this site's seperate entry on Druid Hill Park?

Also, there is a street in Baltimore named Druid Hill, that runs north-south from MLK BLVD all the way to Druid Hill Park. The neighborhood around part of this street at its North end (but still a little south of druid hill park) is also called Druid Hill. I'm just not sure this group is named after the park and not the neighborhood.

The other neighborhoods around the park are Reservoir Hill to its South, a predominatly Af-Am neighborhood filled with Victorian brownstones that many people compare to parts of New York and Achetrolly Terrace (my spelling is incorrect but you get the idea) to the West of the Park. Both of these neighborhoods broder the Druid Hill neighborhood.

There is also a seperate entry in Wikipedia for Bolton Hill, which is a neighborhood in Baltimore just to the South of Reservoir Hill. It has similar housing stock but is lilly white, so many people call it the white Reservoir Hill. This could be linked to the Reservoir Hill article. Just a thought...

Because I didn't know WIkipedia had a seperate article on Druid Hill Park. I'm not even sure it's neccessary. --FuriousFreddy 01:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The group did actually name themselves after Druid Hill Park. They had a job at the park making fudge and used to sing as they worked. That is where the four original members met, and that is why they named themselves Dru Hill. Greene turtle (talk) 15:12, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not true at all. Two of them met in middle school and others in high school. The Fudgery is at the Harbor not Druid Hill Park...I think it's established already in the article and since your comment is so old, I guess you didn't know.

Featured Music Project evaluation

Dru Hill has been evaluated according to the Featured Music Project criteria, most recently affirmed as of this revision. The article's most important issues are listed below. Since this evaluation, the article may have been improved.

The following areas need work to meet the criteria: Lead - Comprehensiveness - Pictures - Audio - References - Format/Style

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Lead: 2-4 paragraphs
Comprehensiveness: Musical style, legacy and influences
Pictures: Need fair use rationales
Audio: Needs sound samples
References: Inline citations, more refs, especially print
Format/Style: Maybe combine some small sections, need summary under "History"

GA Re-Review and In-line citations

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I'm not entirely sure what happened to the above re-review a year ago, but coming across this article again, it seems as if a GA re-review is indeed in order. I don't know what has changed with the article or the criteria since then, after looking at the article, I've noticed a few things that might qualify the article to be delisted from GA status. But, instead of automatically putting the article up for review, I thought I'd bring up the issues here first:

The main image should not be an album cover. Ideally it should be a free image of somesort. The other fair-use images in the article do not have a fair-use rationale, source, etc. I would recommend adding template:Non-free media rationale and template:information to clear this up. This in and of itself would normally qualify the article for quick-fail of GA status.
The article is not referenced very well at all. Ideally every new thought should have an inline citaiton. The format of the references that are there are also inconsistent with each other and wikistyle. I'd recommend using citation templates, though to be fair, use of those templates are required for GA status, but consistency is.
The article as a whole is very limited in its scope. The article doesn't discuss the band's sound, criticisms/controversies (if any existed), etc. It's just a historical account, which is fine, but there should be much more.
The lead paragraph seems somewhat small (especially if you expanded the article like I suggested above)
The article's external links are fan sites! Surely there's an official homepage or MySpace of something to provide more information.

Hopefully these issues can be addressed soon. Feel free to discuss the matter here or on my talk page. I'll nominate the article for GA review in a few days otherwise, at which point your welcome to comment and contribute there as well. Drewcifer3000 03:11, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The result of the review was to delist. Discussion archived here. Drewcifer 05:02, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

B-class will work fine then. Incidentally, the article has a whole section on controversy, and a paragraph on the group's sound (which is really as long as it's going to get; Dru Hill wasn't exactly a groundbreaking group). Since the group isn't technically active right now, you're not going to get a free image. As far as I know, there are no official sites, only fan sites. As for referencing...it's whatever. --FuriousFreddy 05:19, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Dru hill hits.jpg

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Neutrality

As much as I like this group, there seems to be a lot of unsourced "hype" about them in this article, especially when it comes to Sisqo. Anthony Rupert (talk) 04:49, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Christmas in Baltimore

I have started the article for the Christmas in Baltimore EP, feel free to add or correct anything. Shahriar Mesdaghi (talk) 15:09, 12 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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