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"Act of Contrition" is produced by "The Powers That Be" (Madonna and Patrick Leonard).
and then further down, under personnel, lists Prince as a producer of Act of Contrition. Which is it? And can there be a citation as whenever it was revealed that "The Powers That Be" is a pseudonym any of these people used? I know it's being used tongue-in-cheek, but where was it announced who was the actual producers?
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The assertion that "Spanish Eyes" was sometimes called "Pray for Spanish Eyes" needs a citation. I have the US cassette, and it refers to the song as "Spanish Eyes." Perhaps only some releases had the longer title? It wasn't universal. —Preceding
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Why has this page been moved?
Why was this page moved from its simple name of "Like a Prayer" to "Like a Prayer (album)"? This seems very unnecessary. There is only 2 other articles with this name, one being a documentary which has no references and should be deleted or improved.
JWADtalk18:54, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
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* Y All the start class criteria
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Y At least one section of prose (excluding the lead section)
Y A track listing containing track lengths and authors for all songs
Y A full list of personnel, including technical personnel and guest musicians
I've not given the article a rigorous reading, but it does seem close to meeting
GA criteria for listing as a Good Article. Worth checking for bias, as it is a little inclined to pick out positive comments, and perhaps working on the lead to ensure all the main points of the article are mentioned (in particular that both contemporary and legacy reviews point out that this album was Madonna's (successful) attempt to be taken seriously), but overall it's a readable, informative and well sourced article. SilkTork✔Tea time22:18, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
Expansiod needed?
This is regarded by many as one of Madonna's greatest albums and it's Legacy section is considerably smaller than her first album's one. Maybe an expansion is needed and a bit more of research. —
Gheiratina(Touch~^)19:47, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
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Comment. In my opinion a 20% difference is not enough to make it worth making the switch. Since there are only two it is better to use a hatnote for the other instead of using a disambiguation page.
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04:35, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
The album title's inherited from the song, not the other way around. "Like a Virgin" should also be primary to the song/video. --
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Support the song and its video are the ones that generated general commentary from politicians, so is the more encyclopedic topic. The usage stats support disambiguation as primary form, but I think the song should sit at primary instead. --
76.65.128.43 (
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00:03, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Oppose. This is not the only album whose title is based upon an non-action consensus created
by default many years ago. Regardless the song is more viewed than the album, I see only a primary topic, the album. Our Madonna is more popular and "important" than any other Madonna, right? Why is she an "
entertainer"?
To the IP user, in case you didn't know disam pages needs at least one link, could you give one to the "general commentary from politicians"? Also, that commentary is based upon Madonna's records and she made it popular or Madonna tooked it and re-used it.
Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it!See terms and conditions.04:42, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I'm not sure I'm parsing your response properly. Politicians' commentary on the song "Like a Prayer" and its associated video is in what way related to all her other recordings? There was a fair bit of controversy concerning this song and its video, such as blaxploitation, a black Christ figure, blasphemy, etc. It is the song and its video that is the more encyclopedic and notable topic. --
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Oppose – The difference in page views isn't that much, only about 10-15%. If the song had 2-3 times as many views, maybe, but I think this is a case of trying to fix something that isn't broken. They've been the way they are for many many years with no issues. —Torchiesttalkedits05:25, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
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Support, the same situation as "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops!... I Did It Again" the songs vs. ...Baby One More Time and Oops!... I Did It Again the albums.
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Curiously, how does the album's primacy outweigh the song's? To me, they are equally well-known, even when the album was the best-seller with other notable songs within. While this article discusses the album itself, the song page discusses a lot of details about the single song itself and its impact. Moreover, the above request resulted "no consensus" instead of "not moved", prompting me to wait until now. --
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Oppose any move to disambiguate what is basically a
WP:TWODABS situation. No opinion on primacy between the song and album, although readers will not be misled by having either at the primary topic title, since the song is on the album, and the album contains the song.
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On the article for “Like a virgin”: “According to author J. Randy Taraborrelli, "Every important artist has at least one album in his or her career whose critical and commercial success becomes the artist's magic moment; for Madonna, Like a Virgin was just such a defining moment."”
On the article for “Like a prayer”: “Taraborrelli wrote that Like a Prayer was a turning point's in Madonna's career; "Every important artist has at least one album in his or her career whose critical and commercial success becomes the artist's magic moment; for Madonna [...] Like a Prayer was. [Madonna] pushed onwards as an artist, using her creative wit to communicate on another level, musically."”
So... which is it ?
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It is both actually. The quote on p. 164 of the book says "For Madonna, Like a Virgin was just such a defining moment. Like a Prayer was another." — Preceding
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Infobox and lead
The release date is not written out anywhere in the body
"has been described as a confessional" → "is a confessional" since "described" is not appropriate lead terminology in this context, also the confessional record detail should be mentioned in comp as well as reception, as it is fully relevant there
"The album uses live instrumentation" → "Like a Prayer uses live instrumentation" and this needs to be mentioned in comp for the same reason as the confessional record part
I had changed this part of the paragraph from "; she told SongTalk magazine "[...]"[1] She decided to take a more adult, sophisticated approach;..." -> "Madonna told SongTalk magazine "[...]"[1] She decided to take a more adult, sophisticated approach;..." Hence, indicating "Madonna" again would not be necessary. Forgot to clarify.
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Here, mention the pop genre followed by the elements of numerous other ones, also adding the other stuff that I mentioned in the lead is not written here like the confessional record part
Remove the last para entirely since
WP:RSPYT not only writes off unofficial accounts (this one is not verified), but also goes against copyrighted content
[45][46][47][48][49][50] is too many refs in one place, so move them around to being after the appropriate commas for countries but don't invoke a ref more than once in a sentence
"after its third week, where it remained for six consecutive weeks, making it" → "after three weeks, remaining there for six consecutive ones, thus becoming"
Write quadruple platinum since that is the one the source shows and is specific, also platinum should not be capitalized and change units to 4,000,000 in prose then mention they were in the US
"In the United Kingdom," → "In the UK," but the URL is a singles chart that backs none of these stats up, also add chart history for the number-one and overall weeks
Here is the
revision at the time of the review's conclusion, so the refs probably getting moved around does not confuse you about fixes
Copyvio score looks too high at over 60% for The A.V. Club, Yahoo! and Leonard talks the album at 25, as well as America Magazine at around 45%; crop down the quotes to fix this and put some into own words
Done, removed and rephrased majority of quotes. Unable to re-check Copyvio score as I am not able to get the tool to load.
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Ref 9 is dead and I could not find any proper archives for it at the Wayback machine even though the ones there went back years, meaning this is a failed redirect link; remove or replace
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"Act of Contrition" is produced by "The Powers That Be" (Madonna and Patrick Leonard).
and then further down, under personnel, lists Prince as a producer of Act of Contrition. Which is it? And can there be a citation as whenever it was revealed that "The Powers That Be" is a pseudonym any of these people used? I know it's being used tongue-in-cheek, but where was it announced who was the actual producers?
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Additional notes
The assertion that "Spanish Eyes" was sometimes called "Pray for Spanish Eyes" needs a citation. I have the US cassette, and it refers to the song as "Spanish Eyes." Perhaps only some releases had the longer title? It wasn't universal. —Preceding
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Ww adh77 (
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01:30, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Why has this page been moved?
Why was this page moved from its simple name of "Like a Prayer" to "Like a Prayer (album)"? This seems very unnecessary. There is only 2 other articles with this name, one being a documentary which has no references and should be deleted or improved.
JWADtalk18:54, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Like a Prayer (album)/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following
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* Y All the start class criteria
Y A completed infobox, including cover art and most technical details
Y At least one section of prose (excluding the lead section)
Y A track listing containing track lengths and authors for all songs
Y A full list of personnel, including technical personnel and guest musicians
I've not given the article a rigorous reading, but it does seem close to meeting
GA criteria for listing as a Good Article. Worth checking for bias, as it is a little inclined to pick out positive comments, and perhaps working on the lead to ensure all the main points of the article are mentioned (in particular that both contemporary and legacy reviews point out that this album was Madonna's (successful) attempt to be taken seriously), but overall it's a readable, informative and well sourced article. SilkTork✔Tea time22:18, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
Expansiod needed?
This is regarded by many as one of Madonna's greatest albums and it's Legacy section is considerably smaller than her first album's one. Maybe an expansion is needed and a bit more of research. —
Gheiratina(Touch~^)19:47, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
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Comment. In my opinion a 20% difference is not enough to make it worth making the switch. Since there are only two it is better to use a hatnote for the other instead of using a disambiguation page.
Apteva (
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04:35, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
The album title's inherited from the song, not the other way around. "Like a Virgin" should also be primary to the song/video. --
76.65.128.43 (
talk)
00:25, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Support the song and its video are the ones that generated general commentary from politicians, so is the more encyclopedic topic. The usage stats support disambiguation as primary form, but I think the song should sit at primary instead. --
76.65.128.43 (
talk)
00:03, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Oppose. This is not the only album whose title is based upon an non-action consensus created
by default many years ago. Regardless the song is more viewed than the album, I see only a primary topic, the album. Our Madonna is more popular and "important" than any other Madonna, right? Why is she an "
entertainer"?
To the IP user, in case you didn't know disam pages needs at least one link, could you give one to the "general commentary from politicians"? Also, that commentary is based upon Madonna's records and she made it popular or Madonna tooked it and re-used it.
Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it!See terms and conditions.04:42, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I'm not sure I'm parsing your response properly. Politicians' commentary on the song "Like a Prayer" and its associated video is in what way related to all her other recordings? There was a fair bit of controversy concerning this song and its video, such as blaxploitation, a black Christ figure, blasphemy, etc. It is the song and its video that is the more encyclopedic and notable topic. --
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Oppose – The difference in page views isn't that much, only about 10-15%. If the song had 2-3 times as many views, maybe, but I think this is a case of trying to fix something that isn't broken. They've been the way they are for many many years with no issues. —Torchiesttalkedits05:25, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
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Support, the same situation as "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops!... I Did It Again" the songs vs. ...Baby One More Time and Oops!... I Did It Again the albums.
WikiRedactor (
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21:50, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Curiously, how does the album's primacy outweigh the song's? To me, they are equally well-known, even when the album was the best-seller with other notable songs within. While this article discusses the album itself, the song page discusses a lot of details about the single song itself and its impact. Moreover, the above request resulted "no consensus" instead of "not moved", prompting me to wait until now. --
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04:00, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Oppose any move to disambiguate what is basically a
WP:TWODABS situation. No opinion on primacy between the song and album, although readers will not be misled by having either at the primary topic title, since the song is on the album, and the album contains the song.
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On the article for “Like a virgin”: “According to author J. Randy Taraborrelli, "Every important artist has at least one album in his or her career whose critical and commercial success becomes the artist's magic moment; for Madonna, Like a Virgin was just such a defining moment."”
On the article for “Like a prayer”: “Taraborrelli wrote that Like a Prayer was a turning point's in Madonna's career; "Every important artist has at least one album in his or her career whose critical and commercial success becomes the artist's magic moment; for Madonna [...] Like a Prayer was. [Madonna] pushed onwards as an artist, using her creative wit to communicate on another level, musically."”
So... which is it ?
--
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01:59, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
It is both actually. The quote on p. 164 of the book says "For Madonna, Like a Virgin was just such a defining moment. Like a Prayer was another." — Preceding
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Nominate article for GA status?
This article meets the GA criteria in
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I pledge to begin this review tomorrow, but it might take some time with such a large article since I work most days. --
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Infobox and lead
The release date is not written out anywhere in the body
"has been described as a confessional" → "is a confessional" since "described" is not appropriate lead terminology in this context, also the confessional record detail should be mentioned in comp as well as reception, as it is fully relevant there
"The album uses live instrumentation" → "Like a Prayer uses live instrumentation" and this needs to be mentioned in comp for the same reason as the confessional record part
I had changed this part of the paragraph from "; she told SongTalk magazine "[...]"[1] She decided to take a more adult, sophisticated approach;..." -> "Madonna told SongTalk magazine "[...]"[1] She decided to take a more adult, sophisticated approach;..." Hence, indicating "Madonna" again would not be necessary. Forgot to clarify.
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09:45, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
Here, mention the pop genre followed by the elements of numerous other ones, also adding the other stuff that I mentioned in the lead is not written here like the confessional record part
Remove the last para entirely since
WP:RSPYT not only writes off unofficial accounts (this one is not verified), but also goes against copyrighted content
[45][46][47][48][49][50] is too many refs in one place, so move them around to being after the appropriate commas for countries but don't invoke a ref more than once in a sentence
"after its third week, where it remained for six consecutive weeks, making it" → "after three weeks, remaining there for six consecutive ones, thus becoming"
Write quadruple platinum since that is the one the source shows and is specific, also platinum should not be capitalized and change units to 4,000,000 in prose then mention they were in the US
"In the United Kingdom," → "In the UK," but the URL is a singles chart that backs none of these stats up, also add chart history for the number-one and overall weeks
Here is the
revision at the time of the review's conclusion, so the refs probably getting moved around does not confuse you about fixes
Copyvio score looks too high at over 60% for The A.V. Club, Yahoo! and Leonard talks the album at 25, as well as America Magazine at around 45%; crop down the quotes to fix this and put some into own words
Done, removed and rephrased majority of quotes. Unable to re-check Copyvio score as I am not able to get the tool to load.
Theknine2 (
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09:11, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Ref 9 is dead and I could not find any proper archives for it at the Wayback machine even though the ones there went back years, meaning this is a failed redirect link; remove or replace