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Under "Background and composition", second paragraph - "Lyrically, "Who Is It" pertain to being in despair after being left by someone you love." - Is there a guideline as to whether or not something like this should be cited? On one hand, it's inherent to the song, so it may not be necessary to cite - on the other hand, it could be taken as an interpretation and therefore (potentially) controversial. I would imagine that it could be cited, as the section below mentions a critic (Gilham) who discusses this exact idea.
The second paragraph of the "Release and Reception" section uses "chart" and "charting" to the point of distraction - I know that in a lot of cases it's not possible to change, but that's not always the case. For example: "The song charted within the top twenty chart position's, peaking at number fourteen, on the BillboardHot 100 chart". This could be replaced with something like "The song peaked at number fourteen on the...." which not only removes two instances of the word "chart" but also gets rid of a bit of redundancy. Please go through this paragraph and see if you can't change some things around to make it flow better; I'll reread it after you've edited it a bit.
The third paragraph has the same problem ("the song charted on the country's chart for four weeks before charting out of the chart's top fifty positions") and also uses "debuted" and "peaked" in the same structure a lot.
Same paragraph- "The track debuted at it's peak position, number ten on the thirtieth week of 1992; the song charted at it's peak position for two weeks before falling off the chart." - This sentence doesn't mention what country it's talking about (presumably Norway, given the citation)
Under "Music video" - "Similar to other singles released from Dangerous, a music video was released to support the song." - The word "released" twice in the same sentence isn't going to work either. Easily replaced by something like "Similar to other singles from the Dangerous album..."
Same section - "The music video consists of clips of Jackson's career highlights, such as clips of his "Billie Jean" performance at the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever in 1983, and clips of Jackson in his music videos for songs from the 1980s and 1990s." - Other than the really poor use of plural vs. apostrophe that I had to fix, there are three "clips" in this one sentence.
To allow for these changes to be made I am placing the article on hold for a period of up to a week. I'm always open to discussion on any of the items, so if you think I'm wrong on something leave your thoughts here and we'll discuss. I'll be checking this page at least daily, unless something comes up, so you can be sure I'll notice any comments left here. CanadianPaul00:39, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Whew, okay... so I needed to go through the whole article again to make sure that I corrected all the improper apostrophe use... but I think that I caught them all now. One final problem: the lead should contain a mention of the the "music video" section, as the lead must summarize all major sections. Once you've done that, then this article should be ready for GA status. CanadianPaul01:36, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
its been confirmed that Michael Jackson had involvement in Sonic 3, and when you speed up "Who Is It," it sounds like Ice Cap Zone. This should be talked about. Numerous videos on YouTube with comparisons confirm this.Tallicfan20 (talk) 23:30, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Actually "Who Is It?" is one of the more tenuous links. The Jam link is more obvious and the Stranger in Moscow link is confirmed by someone who worked with MJ on both Sonic 3 and Stranger in Moscow. Point being, I don't know if this is the article to mention it. Also, there may be legal repercussions of attaching MJ's credit to something either he or Sega clearly didn't want him creditted on. 96.236.112.210 (talk) 22:46, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]