Wikipedia:Peer review/This Charming Man/archive1

This Charming Man

Me and user:Hn created this article recently. I feel that its pretty complete and I would like to nominate it for featured article status in the near future. I would apreciate any comments on things that would hold it back. Content, style of writing, minor changes that need to be made, overall problems, etc. Anything. Live Forever 06:48, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

• Too much linking of common words (e.g. "telephone"). Also too much linking of years, discouraged by the Manual of Style. Bullet spacing on "chart positions." First sentence, "The Smiths" should have both words capitalized. Very nice overall though, certainly very detailed for a song article. Turnstep 22:28, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

I've made the suggested adjustments. If you want to have another look over and see if I've missed any/suggest more, that would be great. :) --Hn 23:57, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Great song choice. First, in the interpretation there is a lot of unsourced opinion over the mwaning of the lyrics, which to me is a bit weasley, who's opinions/interpretations are they? In the covers paragraph have you mentioned al the coveres of the song, and has anyone released a cover of the song as a single?--nixie 01:28, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Here's how I wrote those two sections. For the interpretation, its all debatable of course but, I tried to base it on the most popular views. One big source was the website http://www.oz.net/~moz/lyrics/thesmith/thischar.htm, which is listed under the references section. Another was the site www.songmeanings.net. I believe its down right now, but it allows its users to comment on the meaning of various songs. I looked over what people said and incorporated that into the article alongside information taken from the previous source. Regarding the covers, I got those by searching "This Charming Man" in iTunes. Google searches didn't find any other notable versions (only an odd band that performed it live). A search on allmusic.com found no new artists (save for some completely obscure indie band on which they had no further information than a track-list of their first album). Live Forever 03:07, 28 November 2005 (UTC)