Talk:The Age of Pleasure

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missing critical voices in album pages[edit]

Hello,

I've noticed that on music pages, reviews that do not include scores are not included in the critical reception section. I believe this ends up excluding some of the most influential reviews published by leading critics in places like Vulture, the NYTimes, NPR, Complex, 4 Columns, The Ringer, The Nation, The Fader, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere, none of which rate their reviews. I suggest that when music pages are created, such reviews be consciously searched for and included. Otherwise, the critical roundups won't reflect the true range of ideas and assessments that defined the discourse surrounding an album. To be quite frank, I think scored reviews are actually inflated in terms of their visibility. For instance, I regularly see Paste and Clash reviews on Wiki pages, despite those publications having tiny footprints and their reviews being written by amateurs.

For instance, this review of The Age of Pleasure, written by Craig Jenkins, was widely discussed online, from what I saw: https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/janelle-monae-the-age-of-pleasure.html

I am a critic, so I have a personal stake in this oversight, but I raise this point in service of accuracy for readers and wikiusers. 141.156.94.144 (talk) 17:41, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]