Talk:Problem (Ariana Grande song)/GA1

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Reviewer: Calvin999 (talk · contribs) 18:46, 27 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I will review this but it won't be until next week, say Tuesday or Wednesday. — Calvin999 18:46, 27 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Looks like a lot of problematic links

Infobox

Follow the template on Template:Infobox single as some of the parameters need to be updated. There are now ones for Studio etc.
City and country aren't needed for the when you change it to Studio parameter
Why is there a citation for Grande as a songwriter here? It's sourced in the Composition under a different citation.

Lead

It was written by both alongside → They wrote the song with
, being produced by the latter two with Shellback, with Peter Carlsson serving as a vocal producer. → ; Carlsson produced the track with Shellback and also served as the vocal producer.
Grande's second studio album → Comma after album
Quotations in the lead need to be sourced with a citation, else it needs paraphrasing.
on the Billboard Hot 100 selling 438,000 copies → on the US Billboard Hot 100, selling 438,000 copies
on sale → Remove, it's obvious
earning Grande her biggest digital song sales week ever. → the biggest weekly sales of her career.
It also became Azalea's second-highest charting single in the US, after her own single "Fancy". → It's not her highest charting, so it's irrelevant to include here.
"Problem" remained in the top ten of the Hot 100 for the first sixteen weeks of its chart run, making its number three debut on May 7, 2014 and dropping out of the top ten on August 27, 2014. → Chart trajectory not needed
it first at the → it at the
, followed by the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Awards, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards. → , the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Awards, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and the 2014 Billboard Music Awards.
was filmed the following day after its release → was filmed the day after its release
sextuple → six-times
The IFPI citation should be in the Chart performance section

Background

debut studio album → Comm after album
Following the release of Grande's debut studio album Yours Truly in September 2013, which was met with critical acclaim, → Release and acclaim both need sourcing

Stopping reviewing here and moving straight to references, as I can see a lot of problems there, in addition to all of the dead links. It's not encouraging that the first here citation isn't formatted.

References

3. Author, date and accessdate missing
5. Date and accessdate missing, Idolator not Spin Media
6. Date and accessdate missing
7. Date and accessdate missing, Idolator not Spin Media
8. Date and accessdate missing, Idolator not Spin Media
10. Accessdate missing
13. Daily Mail is banned
14. Date and accessdate missing, MTV not Viacom
15 is correct, so why doesn't 14 match it?

and the problems (excuse the pun) continue throughout the references.

Outcome

I'm sorry, but I'm failing this. The the fact the lead needs so many correction in terms of MoS, grammar, sentence structure etc is never a good sign for what lies in the rest of the article. I happened to notice an unformatted reference, the first in the Background section, and that is what caused me to stop the prose review and analyse the references. Most aren't fully formatted, and a lot of them are dead links, which means there is original research throughout. I'm really surprised that you have nominated this, LikeGaga, considering you have only ever edited the article twice. You are meant to have significantly improved the article in order to nominate it, and to nominate without having done so is again GAN procedure and to be honest, not fair on the person who reviews it. GAN is not for the reviewer to essentially re-write the article for you, or list every single thing that needs to be changed (the hard work) and for you to simply act on it on (the easy way). I suggest you list this for Peer Review, as that is the designated route for someone to edit the article and help you. GAN is not supposed to be a Peer Review. — Calvin999 08:36, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]