Talk:Get Rich or Die Tryin'/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Retrohead (talk · contribs) 08:33, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Lead

• Features then-newcomers Young Buck, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo→they were coming from where?
• Can we move the references to the article's body? (the sales and certifications cites)
• Can we move "at the 46th Grammy Awards" right after "for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album"?
• Do we have a more accurate date for the album's recording? It certainly wasn't recorded the entire 2002, was it?
• The "gangsta rap" genre is sourced with what?

Overall, the prose in the lead is exceptionally well written.

Background

• Can we expand the section with information about the reason he was shot?
• Is the mixtape Guess Who's Back? the one that should have been released with Columbia Records?
• A recording can not be an album and a mixtape at the same time (third sentence).
• You mention information about singles in this section, which shouldn't be the case according to the section's title.

Singles

• Apart from the chart success, can you elaborate on the other aspects of the songs, such as videos or lyrical themes?

Commercial performance

• Generally speaking, the section is not well researched compared to the album's commercial success. Can we find second week and worldwide sales?
• I see we got information about the US sales as of July 2014, but the lead has an older number as of December 2013. Please update the number.

Critical reception

• A page number is required for the claim that the record was "the most hyped rap debut".
• Can you incorporate the Metacritic score in the table?
• The accolades paragraph is not well researched either. You haven't mention the Grammy nomination nor the Rolling Stone rating. There are other accolades on this album for sure.

Non-prose sections

• Please add a reference about the track listing (you can use the booklet if you have a copy).
• You can use the certification table entry for the certifications.
• Please be consistent with the reference formatting. References 2, 14, 15, 37, are not placed in a citation template. Ref number 17 and the second external link are not accessible. Also provide page numbers of the books you are citing in the bibliography.

I might start copy editing the article. I'll come back with additional notes once these are done.--Retrohead (talk) 09:15, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for this! I'll be a little busy this weekend, but I should be able to dig-in Monday. Harmelodix (talk) 21:26, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Closing the review as failed due to the nominator's inactivity.--Retrohead (talk) 13:16, 16 July 2014 (UTC)