Talk:Nickel Creek

This article used to be a very good article. It was promoted on 30 November 2007 and demoted on 22 June 2011. This means the community feels this article was written very well, but is not now. You may see the vote that promoted the article here. You may see the vote that demoted the article here.

PropVGA

• I just proposed for the article to be a VGA. Please review. Thamusemeantfan 02:32, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

  The article received 100% support.

PAD comments

• 5 dead links per this, I'd suggest doing these first, other comments may not apply.

• "Preservation" is a DAB page
  • It is, but the main definition at the top of the page covers it. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:23, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

• Delink dates in refs
  • Done. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:23, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

• Three photos could go for alt text

• Why are we linking to Myspace in the external links?
  • We shouldn't be. Gone. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:23, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

• Ref 10 appears to be from the Wayback machine... needs original source, use the original source for the |url= parameter, and the web archive for the |archive= parameter.
  • Using the archiveurl and archivedate links now. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:25, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

• The remaining external links should be in {{citeweb}} format.

• Ref 7 CMT should be the work, not the publisher
  • Made consistent. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:25, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

• The lead rambles on about who plays the bass instrument for the band... doesn't say much else, should be rewritten to comply with WP:LEAD.

• The Awards and nominations section is completely unreferenced.

• It was made gold in 2002 by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and has now sold one million copies. 1. Does the RIAA make the album gold, or is it certified gold? 2. Needs reference.
  • Fixed. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:27, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

• Maybe someone could upload en:File:Nickel Creek in Oct 2007.jpg to the Commons and replace it with the current photo in the infobox?

• The early history section could be expanded by a few paragraphs

• The article uses quotes in abundance... maybe remove a few? Need some suggestions on this.

• If the quote that reference 14 covers is kept, another source should be found; can't find the referenced material

Comments for PAD. Albacore (talk · changes) 17:09, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Maintenance of GA and VGA lists

As part of maintenance efforts for the list of VGAs and GAs, the article's promotion and demotion details were updated and the following noted for general information:

• At the time of this article's demotion, there was no process for the demotion of VGAs to GAs. As such, this article was demoted directly from a VGA to a regular article. Chenzw  Talk  06:51, 15 June 2020 (UTC)