Talk:I Lost a Friend/GA1

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Reviewer: Lirim.Z (talk · contribs) 16:19, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Reviewing this soon.--Lirim | Talk 16:19, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

• {{green|It was released by OYOY as the second single from the EP on May 3, 2019.}} It was released as the second single from the EP on May 3, 2019, through OYOY.
• the covers need a short alt descriptions (MOS:ALT)
• Not something you need to do but there is Template:Non-free use rationale album cover which automatically fills all boxes with the required information
• Finneas O'Connell under songwriters

• this paragraph is a little bit chaotic, which needs to be sorted better
• I would swap the song's creation information with the release info
• {{green|Finneas has written...}} Finneas wrote
• {{green|He had a friendship that had lasted for years and that it had fallen apart, but broadly}} This is basically said 4 times in the same paragraph. You should remove this, and put the WBUR quote in it's place
• {{green|In an interview with WBUR, Finneas explains the}} explained that the
• {{green|The cover art for "I Lost a Friend" was created by graphic designer Luke. Finneas sent a demo of the song to Luke who does all Finneas' cover art for his singles. The cover art features a junkyard and a beat-up car.}} The songs cover art was created by graphic designer Luke and features a beat-up car in a junkyard.

• {{green|received mainly positive reviews}} "was met with mainly positive reviews"
• {{green|Writing for NME, Will Richards was less positive with the song, saying it "starts as a run-of-the-mill, earnest singer-songwriter tune", but later said it "soars towards the end of stabs of distorted bass".[13] He compared it to Billie Eilish's album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?.}} Writing for NME, Will Richards was less positive with the song, saying it "starts as a run-of-the-mill, earnest singer-songwriter tune, but soars towards the end of stabs of distorted bass", comparing it to Billie Eilish's When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?.

• {{green|received positive reviews}} "was met withpositive reviews"

• Refs cover the assertions made in this article
• Ref 1: Needs a date, Itunes is not a music publisher, it's a distributor |publisher=OYOY |via=Apple Music

{{Not done}} Check "Let's Fall in Love for the Night"

• Ref 4: Genius is a website |website=Genius

{{Not done}} Check "Idontwannabeyouanymore"

• Ref 5: Replace the (-) with a (–) (MOS:DASH)
• Ref 6: WBUR Pls don't link to redirects
• Ref 13: Link to NME
• Ref 18: MOS:Caps, ref needs a publisher

• Copy-violation: [https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&title=I+Lost+a+Friend&oldid=&action=search&use_engine=1&use_links=1&turnitin=0 Very high] The genius ref is very high, but because it cites all the refs you also cite in the article; I see no issue

• {{OnHold}} I grant you 7 days to fix these minor issues.--Lirim | Talk 08:59, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

'User talk:Lirim.Z, thanks a lot for the review. I have fixed all the issues. The Ultimate Boss (talk) 22:46, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

• Sorry didn't have this on my watchlist. Short comment: Why is "Finneas wrote the song during the afternoon in his parents' house in the summer of 2018." the last sentence of Background and development? --Lirim | Talk 06:37, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

User talk:Lirim.Z, Hi, sorry for the long response. I have decided to retract the nomination, I have been having beef with other editors and I'm thinking they would probably complain about this being GA. I do really appreciate you taking time out of your day to review the article! The Ultimate Boss (talk) 22:28, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

• {{fail}} per user wish --Lirim | Talk 02:06, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

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