Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Eminem/archive1

Eminem[edit]

Article covers his career, his life before his career, analysis of his work and of the controversies it has spawned, his public actions, his personas... pretty complete, well-written, neutral. I think it's good. DS 23:52, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Object: 1) his box could have have more info. 2) there are NO references cited 3) the pics do not have fair-use rationale for this article, heres a quote from one of the pics page: :"To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information." Vulcanstar6 02:08, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object. No references, no fair use rationale. I need not go more in-depth as it currently stands, but there are other issues, definitely. —Eternal Equinox | talk 02:10, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object. Per Eternal Equinox, and reluctantly too (I'm a big fan). However, this article is defintely more comprehensive than many other music articles, and with a week or so of good, hard work, could pass. RyanG e rbil10 02:33, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object per above. No references in the article. Also, please use either {{ref}} or m:Cite/Cite.php for in-line citations (don't embed URLs into the article). AreJay 02:54, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object. The inline links need to be converted to footnotes, I strongly recommend the cite.php format over the {{ref}} format. Article also needs some cleanup. I spotted a few things like contractions and informal languange. Also, the trivia section needs to go.--Fallout boy 08:22, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object - for all the reasons stated above. Also the article refers to him as "Mathers", "Marshall" and "Eminem". I can understand the distinction between "Mathers" the person and "Eminem" the act/character, but for clarity he should be consistently referred to throughout. "Marshall" is not acceptable in an encyclopedic sense. I think you should make it very clear in the lead that Eminem is Marshall Mathers, as you have done, and then refer to him as "Mathers" throughout, except where specifically talking about the act, in which case, Eminem is correct, ie credits, quotes etc. Lead gets into too specific detail about particular albums. Lead should be a summary of the article that follows. Lists should be avoided. "Themes" and "trivia" should be converted into prose, and anything that can't be taken from trivia and put into the main article as prose, should be deleted. Find other featured articles about musicians and use them as a guide. This article has a lot of good things and is worth some extra work. Rossrs 13:11, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object Poor layout, no references. Cvene64 09:12, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object (reluctantly!) - while I would love this article to become featured, it doesn't yet meet the criteria (particularly, there are no references). Ronline ✉ 11:34, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object Now there are references enough, and his stage name isn't repeated too times. --Baxtaba 20:52, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]