Wikipedia:Peer review/Layla/archive1

Layla

I have worked extensively to try and bring it up from a stub to the same quality as some of the other featured song articles. I'd like to see what some of the rest of you think. Not enough information? A little too affectionate? I'd really like to see it be featured. Deltabeignet 20:47, 22 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Little things:
- Never hurts to Wikilink things in the lead section, ie. Clapton's name.
- I'd move the pic of Pattie Boyd down, and maybe add the bit about comparing her to the album cover into the history section. Then, give the photo a simple and concise caption - eg. George Harrison and Pattie Boyd
- Perhaps expand the writing into longer sentences - remember, everyone loves flowing prose, even in an article about a song.
- In the History line, "The title was inspired by a Persian love story...", it wouldn't hurt to make it blatantly obvious what you're talking about by saying "The title, Layla,..."
- It wouldn't then hurt to italicise all instances of Layla or other song titles per the Manual of Style.
- Maybe analyise the song lyrics a little more if you can - but remember, no original research, so have proof for the reasoning of the lyrics.
- Any more info about the context of Layla being used in Goodfellas? What was happening, the power of the song, any reactions from critics?
- Small detail, but give the pages in the reference section titles instead of showing URLs. Makes it more aestetically pleasing.
- Last but not least...what a great article on an unforgettable song. Good work, and I hope my feedback helped. Please give me an indication on my talk page. Harro5 (talk · contribs) 07:43, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
  - Note: per the Manual of Style, songs should be in quotes, and albums in italics. Tuf-Kat 06:59, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
  - That was my mistake when I wrote my feedback, but the proper Manual of Style formatting is used throughout this article. Harro5 07:50, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
    - In your RFA page, you mentioned that you hoped Layla would be a FA soon. I feel its almost there, but you should add some footnotes to get rid of inline links (the one in the lead is particularly ugly). It won't hurt your RFA to show you can do this either! Harro5 08:24, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)