;Initial comments
- No reason for a capital on Extended
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 09:28, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- No reason for a capital on Remix
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 09:28, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "According to Recording Industry Association of America" => "According to the Recording Industry Association of America"
- Done.— TheWikiholic (talk) 09:28, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "The album peaked at 14 on the Billboard 200 album chart" - the chart wasn't called that in 1972
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 09:28, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "It peaked at five on the Billboard 200 album chart" - same again
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 09:28, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- No reason for capital on Silver
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 09:28, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "Epic Records, then known as CBS Records" - that's not true
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 09:28, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "spawned two number-one singles on the billboard hot 100" - needs a capital B
- Done.— TheWikiholic (talk) 09:28, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "Off The Wall made Jackson the first solo artist to have four singles from the same album to peak" => "Off The Wall made Jackson the first solo artist to have four singles from the same album peak"
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 09:28, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "At the 1980 Grammy Awards, it was nominated for two Grammy Awards" - any way to avoid repeating those two words in the same sentence?
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 09:31, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- The source does not support the above claim
Added.— TheWikiholic (talk) 09:28, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "Jackson winning Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male for "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"" - not relevant, this article is about his albums, not his singles
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 13:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- That's what I got on the first two paragraphs of the lead, will look at more later..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:05, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- More comments
- "the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart, which spent a record 37 weeks at number one" - the chart did not spend 37 weeks at number one
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 13:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "Seven singles were released. They all reached the top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart." - these two very short sentences could be combined into one
- Done.— TheWikiholic (talk) 13:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "eight Grammy Awards at the 1984 Grammy Awards" - again, try to avoid repetitive language
- Done.— TheWikiholic (talk) 13:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "while "Beat It" won Record of the Year" - again, not really relevant in this article
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 13:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "eight American Music Awards at the 1984 American Music Awards" - as above
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 13:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "The single "You Are Not Alone" was the first song in history to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100" - again, not really relevant in this article
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 13:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "and is the best selling multiple-disc release, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time" - this badly formatted sentence fragment repeats the sentence before so should be removed
- Done.— TheWikiholic (talk) 14:33, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Title of Blood on the Dance Floor should be in italics
- Done.— TheWikiholic (talk) 13:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Not sure "skyrocketed" is really an encyclopedic choice of word
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 14:33, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Essential Michael Jackson should be in italics
- Done.— TheWikiholic (talk) 13:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- And so should the two albums in the last sentence of the lead -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:29, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Done.— TheWikiholic (talk) 13:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- More comments
- The table heading "Compilation" should be "Compilations", as there is more than one
- Done.— TheWikiholic (talk) 14:12, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "albums at least 18 months old, have fallen below" => "albums at least 18 months old which have fallen below"
- Done.— TheWikiholic (talk) 14:12, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "Here, a list of his albums reached a major position in this chart while not eligible for the Billboard 200:" - this is very mangled English. I would suggest "The following albums appeared on this chart while not eligible for the Billboard 200:"
- Done.— TheWikiholic (talk) 14:12, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- I would also join that list to the one in the next sentence. It makes no sense at all to separate out those which reached a "major" position and those which reached a "minor" position, especially when some of the minor positions are higher than one of the major positions!!
- Done.— TheWikiholic (talk) 14:12, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "List of officially released compilations and other albums not charted in the table" is a terrible title and I can't even tell what it's trying to say. Is it just "albums which don't appear in any of the tables above"? If so, why not? Albums which did not chart should still be listed in the same table as equivalent albums which did, so for example all the Remix Suites should be in the same table as all the other remix albums...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:29, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Done.— TheWikiholic (talk) 14:26, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Comments on refs
- Ref 2 lists no publisher/work
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 9 is some random guy's self-published/print-on-demand book. There must be dozens of better refs for that statement.
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 10 does not list the author of the book
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 13 - what's "George"?
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 15 shows the name of the RIAA in full, whereas an earlier ref shows the initials
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- The title of ref 28 is not "archived copy", it also lists no publisher/work
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 42 lists nothing but the title
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 43 lists no publisher for the book
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 44 is also self-published, so not an acceptable source
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- The chart history portion of ref 55 does not exist
- Done.— TheWikiholic (talk) 14:26, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 65 lists nothing but the title
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 72 has the same issue as ref 9
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 82 uses different date format to the rest (as do some others)
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 83 has two different date formats within the same ref!
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 101 - Nielsen Business Media Inc. is not the author's name
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 102 - author's names are the wrong way round
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 109 - why is Parool.nl wikilinked, when it doesn't have an article?
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Refs 120, 121, 129, 144 are just bare URLs
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 01:46, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 122 has "via allmusic.com", different to all the other AllMusic refs
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 125 is missing almost all fields
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 138 lists no publisher/work
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref 143 is another self-published book
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Refs 146 and 148 (and some others) show the author's name with forename first, unlike the rest
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Quite a lot of formatting work to do on the refs, I fear...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:37, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- ChrisTheDude take a look now, please.— TheWikiholic (talk) 01:49, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Quick comment - ref 11: Condé Nast is a company, not a person, so shouldn't be listed as the author -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:10, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Fixed.— TheWikiholic (talk) 13:48, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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