Talk:André Navarra

André Navarra was a Music good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
June 8, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed

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Citation Needed[edit]

The part about Navarra's father being a bassist I took from the French and German Wikipedia articles, but I've yet to find a source to cite. Any help would be appreciated. --CA387 00:21, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Verification needed[edit]

I wrote that Navarra collaborated with pianist Joseph Benvenuti, but I need verification on this. The Stevenson article said that it was a "G. Benvenuti". I was unable to find any pianists of this name, but from I did get a lot of hits for the former name. Since Joseph Benvenuti was active in Paris around the same time, I put him down. --CA387 21:57, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA failed[edit]

This article's GA nomination was actually failed by this guy, but he has yet to update this page to reflect it. On an emaxination, I can see that the article has some fact tags and seems rather short, verging on being a stub. There's a lot of work to be done —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lenin and McCarthy (talk • contribs) 14:10, 8 June 2007.

I was still working on it, and got interrupted; but my full critique below.--Esprit15d (talk ¤ contribs) 21:15, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Failed "good article" nomination[edit]

This article failed good article nomination. This is how the article, as of June 8, 2007, compares against the six good article criteria:

1. Well written?: The article is filled with good information. But the prose could really be improved. For example, the following is a run-on sentence:

His parents took steps to prepare him for music before setting him up with an instrument, teaching him scales and solfège before he began studying cello at age seven.

In the second paragraph, what does "first prize at age thirteen" mean? Does that mean he was the equivalent of valedictorian? This statement needs some clarification for those unfamiliar with the topic:

This included transcribing many of the violin technical methods to make up for a lack of decent cello études

. I also recommend a thorough copyediting.

2. Factually accurate?: Not bad, although there should not be any citation tags in the articles. Please reference any such statements.

3. Broad in coverage?: Still stubbish. Also, this biography ends in 1954, but he didn't die until 1988. Can more be added to fill out these years. I also recommend adding a musician infobox (see John Mayer)

4. Neutral point of view?: Good here. Good job.

5. Article stability? Very young article with two few edits to even really analyze this criteria. I would suggest time for other editors to help expand and refine this article.

6. Images?: The one image has no caption. Also, the image needs more source information to verify its claim of being in the GFDL. You might consider moving it to wikicommons.

When these issues are addressed, the article can be resubmitted for consideration. If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to take it to a GA review. Thank you for your work so far. — Esprit15d (talk ¤ contribs) 21:14, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]