Talk:Music of the Lesser Antilles

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Former featured articleMusic of the Lesser Antilles is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.
Main Page trophyThis article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on January 21, 2007.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
February 8, 2006Good article nomineeNot listed
April 8, 2006Featured topic candidateNot promoted
April 13, 2006Good article nomineeListed
April 16, 2006Peer reviewReviewed
November 22, 2006Featured article candidatePromoted
December 26, 2006Featured topic candidateNot promoted
December 27, 2020Featured article reviewDemoted
Current status: Former featured article

FA in need of review[edit]

This Featured article was promoted in November 2006 and has never been reviewed since. The article's main contributor has not edited on Wikipedia since 2009, and it's obvious that nobody has been checking what's been added to the article. Problems:

  • There are several unsourced paragraphs in the article; I've flagged a few but there are many more;
  • Poor prose throughout:
  • "Nevertheless, Antillean music can be characterized by the prominence of the Carnival celebration (prominently from Trinidad and Tobago), and the importance of calypso-like song traditions." - Nevertheless is not needed; prominence, prominently;
  • "Brooklyn's Labor Day Carnival features music and parades, mas and steel bands" - I don't know what a "mas" is, is this a typo?;
  • The "Kadans/Compas" subsection is poorly written as a whole: "In the 1970s, a wave of Haitian, mostly musicians, to Dominica and the French Antilles (Guadeloupe and Martinique) brought with them the kadans, a sophisticated form of music that quickly swept the island and helped unite all the former French colonies of the Caribbean by combining their cultural influences." - this is fluff;
  • I left the Kadans subsection without knowing what a kadan is;
  • There is an undue focus on the band Exile One, and it looks like the article was edited by a fan of the group:
  • "Exile One was the most promoted creole band of the Caribbean. The first to sign a production contract with major label Barclay Records. The first to export kadans music to the four corners of the globe: Japan, the Indian Ocean, Africa, North America, Europe, The Cape Verde islands."
  • "Gordon Henderson's Exile One innovated this style"
  • "Exile One led by Gordon Henderson was the first to introduce"
  • There are several random "popular" artists in the article, without any citations to back these additions;
  • The article is all over the place; there's 1 section on zouk, but zouk has already been mentioned before;
  • More uncited fluff:
  • "A major zouk hit by Kassav'";
  • "the supergroup Kassav' invented zouk and popularized it with hit songs like "Zouk-La-Se Sel Medikaman Nou Ni"".

This article needs a lot of work to rise to current FA standards. RetiredDuke (talk) 00:22, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]