Talk:Having Fun with Elvis on Stage/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 12:52, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Do we normally refer to Presley as "Elvis"? I would recommend using his surname as we do with most other individuals.
I don't think you need to link common words like "joke".
"that RCA did not own the rights to" -> "to which RCA did not own the rights"
"managed to make it up to" not neutral.
"and even as high as" ditto.

Otherwise a neat article. And interesting to boot. On hold for a week. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:13, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. ViperSnake151 Talk 16:29, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not done. You still make reference to "Elvis". The Rambling Man (talk) 16:58, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not done, you still have "not own the rights to." The Rambling Man (talk) 17:09, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like these issues have now been resolved, so I'll pass the article. My briefest review for a while but I honestly found the article to be a decent state, interesting, reasonably well written and referenced, so nothing more to add for this review. The Rambling Man (talk) 08:38, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Although the issues noted regarding the article's GA status were resolved long ago, for the sake of completeness, the answer to the first comment is "Yes" - while of course it's perfectly correct to refer to Elvis Presley by his surname on second reference, and I have to issue at all with that (so I'm not disputing any edits on this article), he was one of the rare cases (at least in western culture) where he was widely referenced as simply Elvis on second ref, and indeed was usually credited only as Elvis on record sleeves pretty much exclusively from 1960 onwards (it helps that his name was pretty much unique and unlikely to be mistaken for anyone else unless the topic might see him confused with musician Elvis Costello). The Beatles were treated similarly, with the members often referenced simply as John, Paul, George and Ringo in media about the group. 23skidoo (talk) 21:08, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]