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I'd like to get this artice up to featured article status.

Please respond with any ideas. Thanks -- Funky Monkey  (talk)  21:27, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Get a freely-licensed image! Try fan forums and email lists. See Wikipedia:Boilerplate requests for permission for ideas on how to ask for images from fan websites. Good luck. Jkelly 04:44, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Let's see...
  • There's a bit of info in the biography that could be moved out into other sections: the part that discusses some songs in detail, and the "family life" section, which doesn't fit chronologically.
  • The extensive thematic analysis could certainly use some references — surely enough professionally-written reviews and essays can be found on someone like him, especially in print? Also, it's primarily an analysis of his songs — what about the other material? And if you're going to analyze the songs, why not go into the music in more detail as well? (Instrumentation, style, composition...)
  • In fact, create an actual list of references per style.
  • Long lists are generally not a good idea on Wikipedia. Particularly, Wikipedia is not a repository of lists of quotations. If the quote is relevant, use it to back up other text; otherwise take it away to his Wikiquote page.
  • Don't link to a word in the middle of a song title; expand on the info outside of the quotation marks.
  • Try not to phrase parenthetical asides with words like "note".
  • Clip down the external links a bit; individual YouTube clips can go. For articles containing useful information, use them as references and include them that way.
Unint 01:28, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the replies. I'll get to work on this over the weekend. -- Funky Monkey  (talk)  12:06, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]