Talk:Labi Siffre

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 Labi Siffre was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are 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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"His song, "Something Inside So Strong" (which failed to be selected as the UK entry for the Eurovision Song Contest) has since become popular, and is used in a television advertisement."

Don't know if I've gone about it the right way, but since "Something Inside" wasn't his Song For Europe entry, I've amended the article accordingly.

Funny, Because According to this CD I have, the song is called "Something Inside So Strong" --Skully Collins 16:50, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Can someone put up a picture?


[edit] GA

With no references at all, this article doesn't stand a chance of passing. Sorry. --andreasegde 15:06, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA fail

  • The lead is one sentence and only mentions his professions with no mention of any recordings(when was his break? what song made him famous? there is also no mention of career/ life in the lead. Try expand it to at least one paragraph.
  • The image is missing a detailed fair use rationale as to why it qualifies as 'fair use'. See Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline for more information.
  • years alone, such as 1977 are not wikilinked unless they provide context. which these don't.
  • 'Siffre's first six albums of songs were released between 1970 and 1975, and a further three albums between 1988 and 1998.' first six albums of songs? an album is a collection of songs, worded confusing. Also, this covers eight albums in once sentence, try expand to add chart positions, reviews, other things happening in his life
  • Lots of one sentence paragraphs make the article not 'well written', expand/merge etc.
  • His poetry is direct, satirical, robust, multi-layered, insightful, savage, passionate and compassionate, addressing "wide ranging themes of theology, childhood, supposed adulthood, sociology, love, hate, language, critical thinking and the lack of it, communication, various "isms" and the methods by which the mainstream dismisses the marginalised and the dispossessed". This is WP:POV who says his poetry is all these things? where is the context in this quote?, things like this need references.
  • References, where are they? as mentioned above you need to reference quotes, statistics such as chart positions, where did you get this information? is the source reliable? Please find references to support the content of the article. M3tal H3ad 09:53, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm new and I've never posted before. Having researched 'something inside so strong', I was under the impression it was written as a gay anthem/gay rights song, but was hi-jacked as an anti-apartheid anthem because the real subject matter wasn't ready to be confronted - namely prejudice agianst homosexuals. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.110.160.73 (talk) 00:36, 12 November 2007 (UTC)