A lot of people have worked hard to improve this article, I think it's close to GA. Comments are welcome, Tayquan holla My work 04:11, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
I've already mentioned this on the talk page, but I think the main thing holding this back from a GA is the controversies, especially the "Other New York rappers" section, which simply names other artists without context. Spellcast 08:50, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
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A lot of people have worked hard to improve this article, I think it's close to GA. Comments are welcome, Tayquan holla My work 04:11, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
I've already mentioned this on the talk page, but I think the main thing holding this back from a GA is the controversies, especially the "Other New York rappers" section, which simply names other artists without context. Spellcast 08:50, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
The following suggestions were generated by a semi-automatic javascript program, and might not be applicable for the article in question.
*Per
Wikipedia:Context and
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates), months and days of the week generally should not be linked. Years, decades, and centuries can be linked if they provide
context for the article.
[?]
*See if possible if there is a
free use image that can go on the top right corner of this article.
[?]
{{persondata|PLEASE SEE [[WP:PDATA]]!}}
along with the required parameters to the article - see
Wikipedia:Persondata for more information.
[?]*Per
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), there should be a non-breaking space -
between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 8 Mile, use 8 Mile, which when you are editing the page, should look like: 8 Mile.
[?]
.
Spellcast
11:00, 18 May 2007 (UTC)*Per
Wikipedia:Context and
Wikipedia:Build the web, years with full dates should be linked; for example, link
January 15,
2006.
[?]
*Per
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), headings generally do not start with articles ('the', 'a(n)'). For example, if there was a section called ==The Biography==, it should be changed to ==Biography==.
[?]
*As per
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), please do not
link words in headings.
[?]
*Per
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), headings generally should not repeat the title of the article. For example, if the article was
Ferdinand Magellan, instead of using the heading ==Magellan's journey==, use ==Journey==.
[?]
*Per
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), avoid using special characters (ex: &+{}[]) in headings.
*Avoid using contractions like (outside of quotations): didn't, Isn't, couldn't, didn't, didn't, couldn't, Don't, don't, wouldn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, doesn't, wasn't, wasn't.
You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, APR t 23:57, 17 May 2007 (UTC)