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The article was archived by Laser brain via FACBot (talk) 11:26, 29 August 2015 [1].

Kinky Boots (musical)[edit]

Nominator(s): TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:29, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about the 2013 Tony Award for Best Musical winner. I think it is getting close to what is expected.TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:29, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I happened to catch the touring production of this in St. Louis earlier this year, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm happy to see the article brought to this forum for that reason.

Image review:

  • Images look fine from a licensing standpoint. The poster in the infobox has a FUR in place. I would personally prefer a different/better photo of Cyndi Lauper as the one chosen obscures her face too much.
  • File:KinkyBootsBroadway.JPG shouldn't be forced to 200px in size. That's smaller than our default thumbnail, and that forces the photo to appear smaller than other photos for those of us who set our preferences to use larger size photos.
  • Captions are appropriate and within expectations of a FA.

Imzadi 1979 → 08:00, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Source review: Taking the footnotes one at a time,

  • FN1 should have Playbill appearing as the work in italics, like FN5, et al.
  • FN2 uses a hard-coded format that mimic {{citation}} (aka CS2) when the majority of the references use the CS1 family of templates. Consistency would demand that this, and any others like it be reformatted.
  • FN 5 doesn't need Playbill linked. The first usage is sufficient. Please audit all of the references so that only the first footnote wikilinks. The New York Times is also multiply linked as another example.
  • For FN9 and others like it, there is |subscription=yes that can be added to the citation templates to note that a source requires a subscription. The text that it generates also helpfully links to our guidelines on less accessible source to assist readers.
  • Also for FN 9, my experience is that if a title of a work is included in the title of another work, like Kinky Boots is here, that it is enclosed in single quotation marks and not italicized. I'm not saying it's wrong, per se, just that most academic style guides with which I'm familiar say to do it that way, and that's how the FN14s handle another title.
    • I have never been given the feeling that this single quote for nesting is required, in other works, such as paintings and sculptures that I have brought through FAC successfully, but I don't know what the prevailing sentiment is.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 22:35, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • FN10: you'll want to flip the curly single quotes pasted here from the NYT headline to straight single quotes. Once you do, you'll notice that the templates automatically space them slightly from the double quotes that enclose the title. Also, this footnote has been duplicated in two other footnotes, so they should be merged together as a single named ref. There are some others that should be merged as well.
  • FN 12: in FN1 you italicized a domain name as a work, and here you didn't. If "Broadway.com" is the name of the website, then it should be in italics. I think it should be treated that way because it's used as the name of the site in the masthead at the top of the homepage, much like a newspaper's name is used as a masthead on top of the front page and the online edition. Also, the site's about page lists another company who owns/publishes it. FN 33 has it rendered this way.
    • In the past, I have always referred to domain names as a publisher, sometimes in conjunction with a work. E.g. SFgate.com and San Francisco Chronicle. By what reasoning does a domain become a work?--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 23:26, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • FN 20: the newspaper name should be in italics because the video was published on its namesake website.
  • FN 31 is incomplete.
  • FN 33 and others use the YYYY-MM-DD date formatting. There are some, like FN 36. that use DD Month YYYY formatting as well. The majority though are in Month DD, YYYY format. Please pick one (I'd prefer the latter given that the musical originated in the US) and stick to it consistently.
  • FN47 should have |location=New York added to indicate which Daily News it is, even if the wikilink is a dead give away. A reader who printed this won't see the target of that wikilink.
  • FN48 needs The Huffington Post in italics. It is an online newspaper, so its title should be treated like an offline one.
  • FN56 and others: MOS:ALLCAPS.
  • FN59: please complete the citation in a style that matches the others.
  • FN63 is a variation on the website domain name vs. title issue of FN 1 mentioned above.
  • FN68: newspaper name in italics.
  • FN70: can we get both a transliterated and a translated version of that title? The templates have |trans-title= and |script-title= plus |language= to better accommodate foreign-language and foreign-script sources.
  • FN79: "NBC New York", better known as WNBC-TV is a publisher, not a published work. The works that they publish are the various TV shows they broadcast, unless you're going to make the case that they've named their website that, and most TV news websites are unnamed.
  • FN104 presents an interesting case where a normally italicized title is presented in a possessive use next to a quoted title. You may need to resort to the {{'s}} template to get that title to work properly, as in |title='Kinky Boots‍ ' {{'s}}​ 'Land of Lola', With Billy Porter, Released as Dance Remix (also note that the double quotes around the song title should be changed to single quotes to keep the alternation of double and single intact. There isn't an extra space in the wikitext for that, btw, but the templates are inserting one for some reason. *shrugs*)

One final note that applies to all of the footnotes. It looks like we have a faithful reproduction the the formatting of each source's capitalization scheme. So some are in Title Case, some are in Sentence case, and there's even some ALL CAPS in use. The last one, as noted above is not allowed under our MOS. By reproducing each title as the sources formatted them, our article looks unpolished. Our MOS does allow minor typographic changes that do not alter meaning when reproducing quotations, a standard practice in publishing. Consulting the APA style guide, one would find explicit advice that says to change the capitalization of source titles to comply with their style guide. CMOS will tell you the same. Help:Citation Style 1, last time that I checked, says that titles should be in Title Case, and MOS:CT would agree with that regarding composition titles. The rest of the MOS is fairly quiet at expressing a preference. The key take away here though is that our work should be consistent in how we format things. We should apply a level of detail to polish things before the FA star is applied to an article.

Overall though, I don't see any issue with the reliability of the sources used, just their presentation in the article. To summarize, I'd personally prefer a better photo of Ms. Lauper, especially one that faces leftward into the text if it's going to be display on the right side of this article. The images check out, as so the sources once their formatting is polished. Imzadi 1979 → 08:00, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Imzadi1979, Thank you for the extensive source review. I have attempted to move this to Title case throughout.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:29, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • To answer a couple of questions above:
      • I have always been told to only link a publication name on the first usage in a footnote based on the same principles at WP:OVERLINK. You'd generally only link The New York Times the first time it was presented in the body of an article, re-linking in a new section much farther down the page if appropriate. Linking in every footnote is overkill, and as Tony1 used to say, we should be judicious in driving our readers to links that deliver the most value, which in footnotes is the external link to the cited source. Adding wikilinks to the names of newspapers does add some value by allowing readers unfamiliar with those papers the option to read the article on the paper for information about it to judge the quality of the source.
        • Basically, the thinking behind redundant links throughout the footnotes is that the purpose of delinking redundant links is that we assume that the reader reads the link on first use. However, we are not suppose to assume that the reader reads all footnotes and thus, link each as if it is the first use.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:36, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • OK, our MOS, to the best of my knowledge, is totally silent on the subject of how to format titles within titles. So I just double checked what CMOS16 says. It handles the concept twice (§14.102 and §14.177). The first is for italicized titles that contain other titles, such as the name of a book that mentions another book. In that case, they give the rule I know, render the other title is quotation marks (§14.102). For quoted titles that contain other titles, then the rule depends on whether or not the included title would be italicized or not. If it is, such as a book title contained within a newspaper article title, then the book's title is left italics, but if it's an article title within an other article title, it's quoted using single quotes, which is also the rule I know (§14.177). (You must nest single quotes within double quotes, a rule our MOS enforces as well.) So it appears that as a long-form work rendered in italics, Kinky Boots would be quoted in a book title and italics in an article title.

        In short though, if following CMOS16's rule, you still have cases where the title within the title is quoted and should be italicized. MLA7 appears to use the same rule, but never explicitly states it.

      • Let me answer your question about domain names with some examples. Take http://www.michiganhighways.org. Let's say I were going to cite that. The masthead (large title) at the top of the home page gives "Michigan Highways" as the name of the site. (The HTML title attribute gives "Michigan Highways: The Great Routes of the Great Lakes State".) Then when citing the website, I'd use either form, preferably the former, as the italicized title, Michigan Highways. For http://www.broadway.com, the masthead gives "BROADWAY.COM". So to cite that website, that's what I'd use as its name because that's what it calls itself. Because we're not allowed to use all caps, that would be rendered as Broadway.com. http://www.sfgate.com lists "SFGATE" at the top, and uses "About SFGate" for the non-all caps form so it would be cited as SFGate. (Hearst Communications is the publisher, btw, and I wouldn't mention the San Francisco Chronicle unless using sfgate.com as a courtesy link for an online version of an article published in the Chronicle where I was also citing the page and date information for the print version.)
    • Hopefully these answers are helpful. Imzadi 1979 → 20:35, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • The article needs a wee bit more balance. The West End production is just three lines. I appreciate it has only just begun previews, however there is definitely more to say. For instance the changes that were made to remove some Americanisms from the text.Blethering Scot 20:01, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • Blethering Scot, I did not find much about this Americanism removal, but added what I found. However, in terms fo the rest of the West End production, keep in mind that it does not open until next month.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:03, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • Regardless Tony there are other productions that have run and it just needs a wee bit more balance. There were several good articles written, featuring quotes from Fienstein regarding it and why he wanted an all British cast. i will try and find them for you when I get a chance.Blethering Scot 20:55, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinator note: Unfortunately this has failed to attract any support for promotion after being open for over three weeks—it will be archived shortly. You may renominate after the standard two-week waiting period. --Laser brain (talk) 11:26, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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