Talk:The Makings of Me

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Low Sales[edit]

I wonder whats next for her after these really low-sales. The first single was decent. I wonder what caused low-sales. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.162.74.108 (talk) on December 11, 2006 at 05:08 UTC.

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Novice7 Talk 04:23, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article needs some major fix. Here are some issues.

Lead

The lead should summarize the body of the article, there should be nothing in the lead that isn't in the rest of the article, and everything that is in the article should be summarized in the lead.
There are minor grammar error in the lead too like The album garnered a mostly positive reception, where "a" is not needed.

Background

In addition, however, Monica also recorded with Dre & Vidal — did she record duets or did she just "work" with them?

Music

Wouldn't it be easy to merge the Lyrical themes and Content into one section like 'Composition' or 'Music and lyrics'?
A quote must be succeeded by a reference.
Why do you mention about singles and chart performance in the section?

Released and promotion

The section is too short and needs citation(s) for a sentence.
Why don't you add the singles into this section?

Reception

Outside the States, it opened at number 23 on the R&B Top 50 Albums Chart in Canada — source?
Again you mention singles in the Commercial performance section.
The Makings of Me received generally positive to mixed reviews from most professional music critics. — Earlier you mentioned positive reviews, now mixed to positive? Be consistent.

Track listing

Source?

Leftover Tracks

Is such a section required?

Chart

No source for Canadian and Japanese charts.
The table looks a little confusing, why don't you remove the Provider column?

Release history

US and Canada needs sources to verify dates.

Credits and personnel

The section is not sourced, there is a refimprove tag and why is the musicians section put on a drop down box?

References

Four dead links Check
Coding error on Ref 29. Ref 23 is a blog which cannot be considered a reliable source. Ref 24 needs Cite web.

Links

Okay. Just one Dab link Check.

Media

Reduce cover size per WP:NFCC.
There is no source for the album cover.
Reduce the bitrate of Monica_A_Dozen_Roses.ogg.

- I'm putting this on hold for the moment. Hope you'll fix it. Novice7 Talk 11:11, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - No response from nominator. Seems like he/she is inactive. Failing the article. Novice7 | Talk 15:29, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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