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Gruger, William (August 22, 2013). "Kendrick Lamar's 'Control' Feature Yields Huge Twitter Followers Jump". Billboard. [...] Lamar got people talking after he claimed to be the "king of New York," while also calling out nearly every big act in the game right now. [...] The heavy news item also generated 200,000 page views to his Wikipedia page (a 277% increase) for the week.
Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Cannolis (talk) 01:32, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Change "In accordance to the ***policy, the streaming platform removed XXXTentacion and R. Kelly's music their editorial and algorithmic playlists due to their publicized acts of violence against women." to "In accordance with the policy, the streaming platform removed XXXTentacion and R. Kelly's music from their editorial and algorithmic playlists due to their publicized acts of violence against women." AyrtonNorris (talk) 18:29, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Please change all instances of “Duckworth” to “Lamar” (except when referring to his full name) Eaglefang1 (talk) 04:23, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Not done: Duckworth is his legal surname, so that is how he is referred to. Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 06:43, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Are you sure about that? Other people get referred to by their pseudonymous surname, and when looking for policy I found at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography#Subsequent use that “When a majority of reliable secondary sourcesrefer to persons by a pseudonym, they should be subsequently referred to by their pseudonymous surnames”Eaglefang1 (talk) 13:58, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Done Yes, that policy is correct Dantus21 (talk) 21:18, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi DiaMali, I will be reviewing. I see you're the main contributor of the page, contributing to over 75 per cent of it. I'll be starting soon. 750h+ (talk) 02:46, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is a nice article, just some prose concerns just need to be adressed;
In the Early life section, it says "Both of his parents are African Americans from the South Side of Chicago;[3] they relocated to Compton in 1984, when they were teenagers, due to his father's affiliation with the Gangster Disciples." Consider splitting into two sentence, like "Both of his parents are African Americans from the South Side of Chicago.[3] When they were teenagers, they relocated to Compton in 1984, due to his father's affiliation with the Gangster Disciples." 750h+ (talk) 02:56, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Minor grammatical error in the Early life section: "Lamar and his family lived in Section 8 housing, was reliant on welfare and food stamps, and experienced homelessness." was should be changed to were. 750h+ (talk) 02:59, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Where it says "It done something to me right then and there", change that to "It done [sic] something to me right then and there", since that is what he quoted, but it is grammatically incorrect. 750h+ (talk) 03:05, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"Inge played a vital role in his intellectual growth, often critiquing his lexicon and suggesting prompts to strengthen his prose." What is Inge? 750h+ (talk) 03:08, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Reference number 2, (Young, David (2018). Kendrick Lamar: A Biography. CreateSpace. ISBN 978-1985760677.) which page? you can replace the source if you can't access it. 750h+ (talk) 03:29, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What makes DJBooth, Lakers Nation and HipHopDX reliable sources? 750h+ (talk) 03:29, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Source spotcheck completed on three sources--done 750h+ (talk) 03:34, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I removed the first reference because it felt fan-made and not from a reliable source. DJBooth and HipHopDX are both publications that focus on hip hop music and culture. HipHopDX is actually a subsidiary outlet of Warner Music Group. I used a DJBooth article to support the "spiritually unsatisfied" remark in the Early life section because the source is a letter the subject wrote to the publication in response to a previous article where they examined how he infuses his religion in his works. I can remove the Lakers Nation reference, though. DiaMali (talk) 13:22, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
So the sources for now are fine. Further work may be needed if you do consider taking this to featured article candidacy. Passing sources 750h+ | Talk 14:19, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Address my above concerns and I'll be happy to pass the article as good.
Article is good and exemplifies the basic needs of a good article on Wikipedia. Passing.
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Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Cannolis (talk) 01:32, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
