Talk:Pinmonkey

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Review: June 4, 2025. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Pinmonkey appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 July 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the band Pinmonkey got their name from an episode of The Simpsons?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pinmonkey.

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GA Review

Passed. -- Recon rabbit 16:06, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Nominator: TenPoundHammer (talk · contribs) 20:04, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Reconrabbit (talk · contribs) 15:19, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This nomination has been gathering dust for some time so I'll take on the review. -- Recon rabbit 15:19, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Reconrabbit: Fixed the one broken source. I couldn't find anything much on Paul Alter beyond his having worked as a manager; no sources seemed to say who else he managed. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 17:17, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense then. I couldn't find anything either. -- Recon rabbit 16:05, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Prose

Leading paragraph summarizes the main points of the article without obvious omissions or excessive detail.
History section provides the necessary background to the group, given none of the individual members of the band have enough material to write a full article right now. Interesting that Natural Bridge came up - Dinosaur Kingdom II is there.
Musical career:
- Any info on Rick Alter besides the fact that he is (presumably) a music manager?
No other notes here or on Musical style, Discography

References

Layout: 30 (gratefulweb) needs a full citation, currently just a title and URL. Otherwise fine

Spot checking

Checking 12 sources here, selected randomly (and "Pinmonkey drives on" since it's used so often). Skipping any that point to Whitburn 2017 / Country Weekly since I can't read them myself. Numbering based on this revision:

[2] Y Interesting note that their tour bus caught fire in 2002 but I don't know where you could fit that in here.
[4] Y
[7] Y
[10] Y
[16] Y
[18] Y
[22] Y
[23] Y
[27] Y
[28] Y but I would find an archive link for this because the website is falling apart
[30] ~~Needs full citation~~ Y
[33] Y

So far passages that have been checked are markedly different from the prose here, and no online copyright violations have been found so far.

Scope

Broad: Any notes I can make here are covered in my remarks in the Prose section, which has little to complain about.
Narrow: Details about any part of their career and history are described when relevant, clear effort has been made to include interesting or noteworthy parts of the band's history without getting off-track.

Stability

Neutrality: Presented without bias, quotes are clearly attributed.
Edit warring: Very low levels of activity in the edit history.

Images

Free/Fair use: Only image of the band used is of decent quality and has complete fair use rationale.
Relevance: Infobox image obviously good, secondary images of covered musician appropriately placed.

Good Article review progress box

Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()

3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 12:11, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that country music band Pinmonkey got their name from an episode of The Simpsons?

Source: https://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/print_article.asp?xid=690

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-star/173814153/

- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Dukaisms

Improved to Good Article status by TenPoundHammer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 17 past nominations.

Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 16:40, 4 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Everything is in good condition and passes standards. Next time, provide the quote for the hook. I believe the relevant quote for the hook, based on the source, is: "As for the name, a few years before, a friend who did booking at a Nashville club said they needed to pick a name to get on an advertisement. At the time, Reynolds was watching The Simpsons. Homer's big ambition was to get a job at bowling alley setting the pins. Thus, the name Pinmonkey." Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 05:02, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback on links

Hi, I have been recently lurking around this article (wanted pick up the GA nomination). Anyway, there some links that don't seem to work, and IABot (archival bot) is exhausted at the moment. So I'm dropping the link-dispenser analysis to not forget. —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 17:29, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]