Talk:Dragostea din tei/GA1
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Nominator: Cartoon network freak (talk · contribs) 15:27, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
Reviewer: Kusma (talk · contribs) 17:21, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
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[edit]I will comment on anything I notice, but not all of my comments will be strictly related to the GA criteria, so not everything needs to be actioned. Feel free to push back if you think I am asking too much, and please tell me when I am wrong.
I remember this song well, originally from when it was #1 on the German charts through most of the summer of 2004 and then I was reminded by last year's OneRepublic version.
- Lead: perhaps a bit too long and detailed, will comment on that after reading the rest of the article.
- What does "it was also interpolated" mean?
- Background and writing: compared to the length of the rest of the text, we learn very little about O-Zone here. "O-Zone was a Moldovan Eurodance group founded in 1998. In 2002, the band, which consisted of Dan Bălan, Radu Sîrbu, and Arsenie Todiraș, moved to Romania where they found success with ... and the number one hit ... ")
- The section is a bit oddly linked. O-Zone should be linked on first use in the body but isn't, while links like written and composed are too much, see MOS:OVERLINK.
- Romanian-language links: Per H:FOREIGNLINK, best practice is to link these via
{{ill}}, for example{{ill|Bogdan Popoiag|ro}}to produce Bogdan Popoiag. This is the best of both worlds as it shows both that we don't have an article in English and tells people how to find the article in Romanian. (And once someone creates Bogdan Popoiag the Romanian link will disappear and the template will soon be removed by a bot). This comes up several times in the article. - "Composition and lyrics" section should logically come before "Release and marketing". I think "Background" should focus on O-Zone; you could consider moving the "writing" bit into the "Composition and lyrics" section.
More later! —Kusma (talk) 21:38, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
- Release and marketing: not too thrilled by the image of someone not connected to O-Zone as first photograph in the article. Before I looked at the caption, I was sure this must be Balan (who else would you feature first?).
- The release date would be nice to know, or date of first radio airtime. From the source I can tell that some people had heard the song by 27 July 2003, not that the song was officially released (as stated in the infobox) or where. But this might be difficult? Other language editions have all kinds of release dates, rowiki claims both 2002 and 1 August 2003, dewiki has 10 August 2003, itwiki has 10 May 2003... All unsourced, what a mess! I will look at more sourcing later, but MusicBrainz has a collection of remixes from 3 June 2003 ...
its copyright was legally registered in the region a month later.
the first source from 27 July and the second source says "in August", which could be less than a week later.- "advertized" should be "advertised", no matter which variant of English you use.
"Ma Ya Hi" was a solo venture for Balan
you just said Prata was involved, so it was not solo?? Do you mean that the other O-Zone members did not contribute?- Composition and lyrics: section is generally overlinked.
a tempo of 130 beats per minute
is particularly bad, since "beats per minute" redirects to "tempo". - The book cited is edited by Thede Kahl, but the bit mentioning "Dragostea dintâi" is an article by Marina Cap-Bun.
- It is a bit of a tease to tell us it is a hipster neighbourhood, but not what it is.
More later! —Kusma (talk) 22:21, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
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