Wikipedia:Peer review/Michael Jackson videography/archive1
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I've listed this article for peer review because… I would like to take this videography to FLC in the future, but need to fix any problems it may have first.
Thanks, Pyrrhus16 20:42, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Finetooth comments: This is very good, and I enjoyed reading it. I added some nbsps and made other minor proofreading changes as I went through the article. I have a few other suggestions for improvement.
Heads
- MOS:HEAD says in part, "Section names should preferably be unique within a page; this applies even for the names of subsections." For this reason, it would probably be best to shorten subhead 1.1 to "By Jackson" or something else to avoid repeating "music videos" in two heads.
Lead
- "Referred to as the "King of Pop" in subsequent years, seven of his solo albums have been promoted with music videos" - This sentence has a dangling modifier problem since "seven" was never referred to as the King of Pop. Suggestion: "Seven of the solo music videos of the "King of Pop" were promoted with music videos."
- "entertainer to amass a strong crossover following on MTV" - It might be helpful here to spell out as well as abbreviating MTV on first use, thus: Music Television (MTV).
Music videos
- "When Walter Yetnikoff, the president of Jackson's record label, CBS, approached MTV to play the "Billie Jean" video, they initially refused; they felt... " - CBS is an "it" rather than a "they". To make the subject agree with the verb, it might be best here to say, "When Walter Yetnikoff, the president of Jackson's record label, CBS, asked MTV executives to play the "Billie Jean" video, they initially refused; they felt... ". Maybe "executives" isn't the best word, but some other plural would do equally well in fixing the s-v agreement problem.
- "When Walter Yetnikoff... " - It would be good to add the date here. The year is probably enough. It's in the lead, sort of, but needs to be in the main text as well.
- "Videos released in this period also continued the usage of group choreography... " - The Manual of Style prefers "use" to "usage".
- "The Thriller music video introduced the use of female counterparts to short films, and was expensive to make." - I had to puzzle this one out because I couldn't see how a short film could have a female counterpart. Suggestion: "The Thriller music video added female counterparts to Jackson's main part and was expensive to make." Or something like that.
Filmography
- "Quincy Jones was the musical supervisor and music producer for the film and marked Jones' first time working with Michael Jackson." - Something's slightly awry here since Jones didn't mark Jones. Suggestion: "Quincy Jones was the musical supervisor and music producer for the film, which involved Jones' first collaboration with Jackson." Or something similar.
- "Lasting 17 minutes and costing $30 million to make, the film was the most expensive video produced per-minute." - It would be good to clarify this in two ways. Does this mean Jackson's most expensive or the most expensive ever produced by anyone? If the latter, it would be good add "through 2009" if that is the case. I notice the lead says "ever" but that should be included here too if only on grounds that the lead should contain nothing that is not in the main text.
- "Another Jackson-created film, Ghosts, saw the African American musician transformed into an elderly Caucasian man with no rhythm, and holds the world record for being the longest music video ever made" Since films can't see, a slight re-wording might improve this. Suggestion: "In another Jackson-created film, Ghosts, the African American musician played an elderly Caucasian man with no rhythm. This film holds the world record as the longest music video ever made."
Television
- "One of Michael Jackson's conditions for guest starring was that he voiced himself, but a sound-alike would receive credit." - The verb tense changes in mid-sentence. "Using "would voice" instead of "voiced" would fix the problem.
Notable appearances
- "2003 saw the airing of Living with Michael Jackson, a documentary following Jackson for 8 months." - Two problems. Years don't see, and numbers from one to nine usually get written as words. Bigger numbers usually appear as digits. Suggestion: "In 2003, a documentary called Living with Michael Jackson tracked his life for eight months."
I hope these suggestions prove helpful. If so, please consider reviewing another article, especially one from the PR backlog. That is where I found this one. Finetooth (talk) 20:18, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
- All done. Thanks a lot. :) Pyrrhus16 12:03, 18 July 2009 (UTC)