Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Beyoncé Knowles/archive1

Beyoncé Knowles

Support She deserves to be in the featured article because this shows her accomplishment, life and success during her solo music career. If there is anything I need to fix, let me know.

• Oppose. One of the images is being used incorrectly (album covers are only meant to illustrate articles about the album), and two have no sources. Evil Monkey∴Hello 04:48, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
  • I just removed the album cover image. Evil Monkey∴Hello 05:01, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
• Object
  1. The images Image:Bey and Prince.jpg, Image:Beyonce.JPG have no source or copyright information, and could be deleted at any time.
  2. The image Image:Bkbrits.jpg has no copyright information.
  3. The image Image:Soulbk.jpg is claimed as "fair use", but does not have a fair use rationale explaining why the use in Beyoncé Knowles constitutes "fair use". See Wikipedia:Fair use and Wikipedia:Image description page#Fair use rationale for details on what's needed.
  4. Lists appear to take up about two-thirds of the article. These should be removed or worked into the prose.
  5. I can't be sure because of all the lists, but there don't appear to be any references.

  --Carnildo 07:07, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

  • I deleted the first three photos Carnildo mentioned since they did meet the new WP:CSD criteria. Zach (Sound Off) 17:07, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose - lack of references and copyright info is a major problem. I think the three photos of Beyoncé accepting awards is overkill. One could be justified perhaps. Three can't possibly constitute fair use. What is the second and third photo showing us that we haven't seen in the first one? Writing style is disjointed - the career section reads like a stream of unrelated facts - it just does not flow very well. I agree that Knowles is a great candidate for a featured article. I suggest looking at some of the featured articles in the categories of "Media" and "Music" to get a feel for the standard. KaDee Strickland is an excellent one to refer to, especially in relation to using and citing references. Rossrs 10:07, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose. Very very short for an article about a prominent artist. Check Kylie Minogue for a FA about a female singer. CG 19:04, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
• A while ago I asked about something on the talk page and there's never been an answer. Everyking 04:29, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose. Too short, choppy, and listy. Does not follow a chronological biographical scheme, makes little mention of the singer's heavily documented childhood and pre-Michelle Williams career with Destiny's Child. The article does not once even mention mention the singer's mother and costume designer. --FuriousFreddy 01:28, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
• Object strongly: no references, and the following sentence is POV (though maybe true): "In the same year, Beyoncé was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher just a couple of minutes after ruining Christmas at Universal Studios Hollywood." - 211.30.179.151 12:43, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose this article really really really sucks -- getcrunkjuice^contribs 00:28, 14 January 2006 (UTC)