Talk:Silly Boy Blue

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 11:58, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

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• ... that "Silly Boy Blue" reflected David Bowie's fascination with Tibetan Buddhism? Source: Pegg, Nicholas (2016). The Complete David Bowie (Revised and Updated ed.). London: Titan Books. pp. 243–244. ISBN 978-1-78565-365-0.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mini ature

Converted from redirect by Zmbro (talk). Self-nominated at 20:20, 3 February 2022 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article is new enough, in-depth and very well sourced. The hook is interesting, AGF on off-line source. This would be a good candidate for GA I think. No copyvio detected and qpq is done. This nom has really made the grade! BuySomeApples (talk) 21:32, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

To T:DYK/P6

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Silly Boy Blue/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: K. Peake (talk · contribs) 09:50, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

Here is another review for you! --K. Peake 09:50, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Kyle Peake Thanks for reviewing Kyle. I'll be able to get to this on Sunday probably. I have a busy next few days. Cheers friend :-) – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 02:30, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Good news there, especially with Sunday being my only remaining day off work! --K. Peake 06:14, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Infobox and lead

• Infobox looks good!
• Pipe demoed to Demo (music)
• "with a new lyric and arrangement" → "with new lyrics"

• Both done

• "has appeared on compilations." → "has appeared on releases."

• Feel like compilations is more specific and 'releases' is too generic. Added link here. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 03:08, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

• "and during two of his" → "and during his respective"
• Pipe acoustically to Acoustic music

• Both done

• "and was included on" → "and was included on the compilation album" with the wikilink

• See above

• "while Bowie revisited Tibetan themes" → "whereas Bowie revisited the Tibetan themes"
• "performed this arrangement in New York in" → "performed this version at New York's Carnegie Hall in" with the wikilink
• "saw official release" → "saw an official release"

• Above three done

Recording and composition

• Retitle to Background and composition
• First para looks good!
• Wikilink Tibet on the quote box
• "A year later, he" → "In 1966, Bowie" per this being a new para
• Wikilink Decca Studios
• Pipe key to Key (music)
• "Bowie rewrote its lyrics" → "Bowie rewrote the lyrics"
• Wikilink cello
• "on backing vocals." → "on her vocals."
• Pipe baseline to Bassline
• Mention the release year of the version of Bob Dylan's recording

• All done

• Are you sure that "resolving" is the appropriate term here?

• How about 'ending'? – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 03:08, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Release and aftermath

• "Silly Boy Blue" is sequenced as the second track, so alter this error appropriately

• Well that's extra embarrassing, fixed – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 03:08, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

• "considered it one of" → "considered the track one of"
• "He ultimately felt" → "Unterberger ultimately felt"
• "again at London's Decca Studios," → "again at Decca Studios," per the studio's location already having been mentioned
• Add the release year of "Waiting for the Man"
• Pipe acoustic to Acoustic music
• Pipe mime to Mime artist
• "and 13 May 1968." → "and 13 May 1968, respectively."

• All done

Toy version

• "other tracks Bowie wrote" → "other tracks he wrote" to avoid overusage of Bowie
• "so to prevent" → "as so to prevent"
• "this new version is" → "the new version is"
• "of "Silly Boy Blue" at the" → "of "Silly Boy Blue" for the" to avoid overusage of at
• "arguing that its" → "arguing that a"

• All done

Personnel

• Any note(s) that could be added from the unknown musicians?

• Unfortunately nope. Many of the session musicians from this period were undocumented. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 03:08, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

References

• Copyvio score looks phenomenal at 8.3%!!!!

• Ayyyyyyy

• WP:OVERLINK of Rolling Stone on ref 22
• WP:OVERLINK of The Guardian on ref 33

• Both done

Sources

• Good

Final comments and verdict

•  On hold until all of the issues are fixed! --K. Peake 11:05, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Kyle Peake All set. Sorry almost completely forgot about this. Thanks again Kyle. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 03:08, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

• ✓ Pass now, I was thinking yesterday where was your response but I am very glad to see it by now! --K. Peake 06:31, 11 April 2022 (UTC)