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The Way We Were: Original Soundtrack Recording has been listed as one of the Music good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: July 27, 2017. (Reviewed version).

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:The Way We Were: Original Soundtrack Recording/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: CrowzRSA (talk · contribs) 18:00, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Background and composition

Link executively produced to Executive producer

Done

Link score to Film score

Done

Promotion and reception

"...topping the charts in both the United States and Canada" What charts in the US? The Billboard Hot 100? Write out both the US chart and link Canadian chart to RPM (magazine).

Done

ARIA Charts are in Austrailia

Done

""The Way We Were" was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, signifying sales of over 1,000,000 copies on August 19, 1997." -- instead of saying "signifying sales of over 1,000,000 copies on August 19, 1997." and all that, I think it would flow better as just "The Way We Were" went platinum on August 19,1997 by selling over 1,000,000 copies in the United States."}}, linking platinum to Recording Industry Association of America

Done

"Despite not providing the album a written review by one of its critics, AllMusic managed to rate it three out of five stars." -- this shouldn't be a paragraph on its own. Are you for sure there are absolutely no other reviews or instances where a critic or author has commented on it?

Unfortunately yes. I checked several newspaper databases with no luck. Most of the reception was aimed towards Streisand's same titled album instead. Carbrera (talk) 01:04, 26 July 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Commercial performance

"...debuted at number 82 on the Billboard 200 chart for the week..." -- remove the word "chart"

Done

link Streisand's solo album if there is an article

Done

By "Canada's Top Albums/CD's chart" do you mean Canadian Albums Chart?

No, that chart didn't exist until the 2000s. "Canada's Top Albums/CD's chart" is what it is referred to as on Wikipedia, so I left the title alone. Carbrera (talk) 01:04, 26 July 2017 (UTC).[reply]

"It spent its final week in Canada at number 72 at the week ending May 11, 1974..." -- "at number 72 at the week " sounds weird, reword

Done

Charts and certifications

I see no need for the "*sales figures based on certification alone"

Done

Introduction

"The Way We Were: Original Soundtrack Recording is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name by American vocalist and composer Barbra Streisand and Marvin Hamlisch, respectively."-- I think the respectively thing sort of makes it confusing... why not just say "the same name by American vocalist Barbra Streisand and composer Marvin Hamlisch."

Done

Really need to expand this section, it's not long enough and doesn't summarize the article as a whole very well.

Done

External links

No need for link to discogs, not considered a reliable source.

And while I agree that it isn't a reliable source, this template was created specifically so the reader(s) could glance at the various releases. Almost every GA album I've visited includes this as well. Hopefully, this helps. Carbrera (talk) 01:04, 26 July 2017 (UTC).[reply]

These are all my comments. Attend to them and I will go back through the article for a final review. CrowzRSA 18:30, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

CrowzRSA – Thank you for the review! I believe I took care of everything you pointed out. Regards, Carbrera (talk) 01:04, 26 July 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Criteria check

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass:

Very well written article that covers all points of the soundtrack despite the limited amount of sources. Happy to pass, CrowzRSA 18:48, 27 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]