Wikipedia:Peer review/Evanescence discography/archive1

Evanescence discography

If I'm ever going to get the band's studio albums to GT, I'll need the anchor page at featured list status. That said, I have no experience with list articles. I'll need some help to get this there.

Thanks, dannymusiceditor ^{Speak up!} 18:52, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

I'll look this article over:

• First off, is there a more recent lead image? The lead image is from 2003, even before Evanesence really became big. Besides, since Moody left years ago, it seems a bit odd to include him in the opening image. If there aren't any better or newer images of the band, you could always go the Disturbed route and just use an image of Amy.
• The band Evanescence has released three studio albums, one live album, three extended plays, eleven singles and eleven music videos. State what country the band is from: "The American band Evanescence..."
• The band has sold more than 25 million records worldwide. It's not a good idea to start consecutive sentences with the same opening (in this case "the band"). Aside from that, this sentence seems a bit out of place, since the next sentence talks about their formation. It just seems really squeezed in for no reason. Perhaps you could go the Christina Aguilera route and just mention the band releases and their album sales, thus forgoing the sentence about their formation. Just a thought.
• Fallen became a huge commercial success, and spawned the hit singles "Bring Me to Life", "Going Under", "My Immortal", and "Everybody's Fool". Remove "huge" and "hit", those aren't necessary words. Commercial success and singles should be good enough descriptors anyway.
• Another thing I noticed was that the lead only focuses on major albums and singles, and doesn't mention the demos or extended plays. While they might not have anywhere near the significance of the albums, I feel they should at least have a mention.
• Evanescence won two Grammy Awards (for Best New Artist and Best Hard Rock Performance) in 2004. Needs a citation
• Their second album, The Open Door, was released in 2006 and debuted at number one on five national charts, including Billboard 200, with the first single "Call Me When You're Sober". The album also produced minor hits "Lithium", "Sweet Sacrifice", and "Good Enough". First sentence is a bit run on, so perhaps move the part about "Call Me When You're Sober" to the second sentence.
• Evanescence, their third studio album, was released on October 11, 2011, and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. The first single, "What You Want", was released on August 9, 2011, to moderate success. The second single, "My Heart Is Broken", was released on October 31. The last single from the album, "Lost in Paradise", was released on May 25, 2012. Oddly specific dates for the album and single releases. Why not just simply say their year, like you did for the past two albums? Also, how did the album do in other countries? You gave the readers a worldwide perspective with The Open Door, but then reduced Evanescence to a United States perspective.
• The rest of the article looks well formatted, but I'd like to see citations for each album, extended play, demo, and live albums release date (See Rise Against discography, may not be featured yet, but it's getting there). I'd also recommend citing each single. How do we know that song was released as a full blown single, and not just a random song that did well? (Once again, see the Rise Against discography, but you can also check out Azealia Banks discography if you'd like)

Hopefully this was the kind of review you were looking for. And to answer the question you left on my talk page, I was in Salt Lake City for my college orientation, I'm going to be a Ute! Famous Hobo (talk) 09:09, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Super cool! Thinking of heading to Penn State Behrend myself. Unfortunately, there aren't better images. You'll find that Wikipedia-approved images of Evanescence that actually look decent are surprisingly and annoyingly scarce. Thanks again for this review!! dannymusiceditor ^{Speak up!} 12:51, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Ugh! The Spanish version, when translated looks absolutely great! I wish I'd notice sooner and I wouldn't have opened this! I'm so sorry to have your work go to waste, I'll try to make it up to you by reviewing one of your next GANs! I'll do my best to try to incorporate some of this in here. dannymusiceditor ^{Speak up!} 17:04, 7 July 2016 (UTC)