Talk:Rainbow (Mariah Carey album)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Jezhotwells (talk) 00:43, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I shall be reviewing this article against the Good Article criteria, following its nomination for Good Article status.

Disambiguations: fixed two and unlinked James Wright as no suitable target found.[1] Jezhotwells (talk) 00:51, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Linkrot: none found. Jezhotwells (talk) 00:54, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Checking against GA criteria

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
Frankly, the prose is very bad: The album followed the same pattern left by Carey's previous album Butterfly (1997), in which she began her transition into the R&B market. Rainbow contains a mix of hip-hop influenced R&B jams, as well as a variety of slow ballads that comprised most of her previous releases. On the album, Carey worked with David Foster and Diane Warren, seemingly replacing Walter Afanasieff, the main balladeer Carey had worked with throughout the 90s. Additionally, since she had taken more control over the style and music she wrote and recorded, Carey collaborated with several musicians such as Jay-Z, Usher and Snoop Dogg.; However, while Carey felt closely to the music she grew up listening to, she chose to still write ballads that were relate-able, although those that harbored more on R&B than pop. Carey wrote several ballads that she felt mirrored sentiments she experienced during that time in her personal life, of those were "Thank God I Found You" and "After Tonight", the latter which featured song-writing from Warren, while the former by Lewis.; Upon release, Rainbow received mixed to positive review from contemporary music critics. While many celebrated Carey continued musical departure from her adult contemporary past, some felt it was not as strong or as distinct as Butterfly.; Rainbow was certified triple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments of over three million copies within the United States. Outside the US, the album debuted atop the charts in France, and within the top-five in Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan and Switzerland. In Europe, Rainbow was certified platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), denoting shipments of well over one million copies throughout the continent.; Five singles were released from the album, with two serving as worldwide international releases, two promotional and one European single. Serving as the album's lead single, "Heartbreaker" introduced Jay-Z as a featured artist. ; The song also peaked atop the chart in the US, becoming Carey's fifteenth song to do so, however achieving moderate international charting. The next two singles, "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme) and "Crybaby" featuring Snoop Dogg were released as double A-side, and were the center of a public feud in between Carey and Sony due to their alleged weak promotion of the singles. That is just the lead. The rest of the article is also full of such elementary howlers. Articles should not be nominated at GAN with the prose in this shoddy state.
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
The French certification agency is not called " Disque Queen France" it is "Disque en France"

Sources appear reliable, no OR, references support statements
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
Reasonably broad
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Why is a photograph of Carey on tour promoting "The Emancipation of Mimi£ useful in this article?

Sound samples are OK. Infobox image has a suitable rationale
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
The exceedingly low quality of the prose means that this article needs a lot of work, so I shall not be listing it at this time. A reasonable standard of literacy is required to create good articles. You are pretty good at sourcing and assembling articles but apparently you cannot comprehend what "reasonably good prose" means, so I suggest that you find someone to go through the article and render it into good plain English. Jezhotwells (talk) 01:12, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pictures used in article

I said this on the Emotions album article about a picture. Neither of the two pictures on this article relate in any way to the Rainbow album. One is a picture 2005 whilst Mariah is on tour and the other is Mariah performing Hero at the Inaugural ball. I was successful in having the picture from the Emotions article removed, and ask that the same be done for these two pictures. At least use pictures from Mariah promoting Rainbow or from the Heartbreaker video. calvin999 (talk) 17:05, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]