Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Nina Simone

Nina Simone

Hello everybody, I have requested a review of this B-class article, because I think this artist deserves a good representation in the wiki-encyclopedia. I have been expanding and changing the article since september, as well as add almost Simone's total discography. But because I am a bit new to this, and not completely knowledgable about the more detailed underlying wiki do's and don'ts, I would really appreciate it to hear you comments so that the article can be made better in the future. Marcel flaubert 12:13, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yannismarou

The article looks well-written to me (in terms of prose). These are the main problems I con point out:

The article lacks inline citations. I fyou ever decide to nominate it for FAC, try to have at least one inline citation for each paragraph.
The existing citations, mainly the external links need wikifying. Check any recently promoted FA to see what I mean. And check also Template:Cite book and Template:Cite web.
When you cite a book, you should mention pages.
Something more about the citations: they go after the quotation mark not before. I noticed some inconsistency.
The lead could be further expanded per WP:LEAD.
"Performing live" provides a nice summary of her unique style, but I would like some more infos and analysis.
I'm not sure these bolded texts in "Well known songs" are in accord with WP:MoS.
"Quotations" is a listy section like "Trivia". I think you should get rid of it and incoroporate the quotations there in the main prose if possible.--Yannismarou 08:23, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks + question

Hi Yannismarou, thanks for your comments, esspecially about the citations and stuff.

Do you mean by inline citations the naming of a source immediatley after the sentence, such as (Simone & Cleary, 1992)? Does this way of citating substitute for the 'automatic' references section that is created as you add references (like [1]), or is it appropriate to do them both together?

Thanks again, it really helps me to see where I need to patch up (or anyone else who wants to of course ;). Any other comments are very welcome!

It is recommended that inline citations follow the Harvard or the Oxford system. You can check any recently promoted FA (especially biography) and you will understand what I mean.--Yannismarou 07:42, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]