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4Minute

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I've listed this article for peer review because I wanted to see how the article can be improved. I have added sources to support every statement made in the article, but I was wondering what should be added to the article to bring it up to GA or even FA status. Since this article is about a K-pop group, it's difficult to see what should be added to the article to improve it

Thanks, KJ ^{click here} 08:44, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Prosperosity comments

Hi, I'm having a couple of issues with the prose and the style it's been written in. If you look at featured level articles, such as Kate Bush (actually, the Chinese musicians with featured articles like Jay Chou and S.H.E might be very helpful), there are different sections detailing their impact, musical style (and who generally creates their music), who were they influenced by and if they influenced anyone, why they became popular, their impact in the musical industry, how critics received their music, etc. At the moment, a lot of the prose in the article is written like this:

On May 23rd, 4minute released this.

On June 23rd, 4minute performed here.

The 2013 and 2014 sections especially have this issue, since they're just sentences and not paragraphs. As I understand it, 4minute members have done some acting roles and presented TV shows, so a section detailing this and how their acting was received would be good for the article. The endorsement section should probably be written in prose as well, especially if 4minute are widely associated with a specific product they've promoted (e.g. Mika Nakashima and Kate cosmetics, Britney Spears with her perfume line, etc). I would recommend merging some sections together (like how Hit Your Heart and Diamond have been). Volume Up and Name Is 4minute are similar enough releases that they probably should have a merged section.

4minute's music is also popular in other countries like Taiwan, so adding more information about their impact outside of Korea would be beneficial. There's a lot about their activities in Japan, but not about how they were received (once again it's just 'released this, released that'). 4minute debuted quite in the recent Korean wave in Japan, which is pretty notable, but the article doesn't mention this at all. Mentioning how they dealt with the Japanese language should also be in here (I can't remember how well they can speak it, but I know some members of Girls Generation, Big Bang, 2NE1, etc are much more fluent in Japanese (or English) than their bandmates.) A lot of their Japanese music was produced by Korean producers (like First, Ready Go and Love Tension), which is pretty rare unless it's a translated Korean song, so I'd like to see something about that in their musical style section.

I'd also like to see some more information on their training period. How did the band come into existence? Since it seems to be based around Hyuna after she left the Wonder Girls, it would be quite unorthodox compared with other groups. Interviews that flesh out that period (and the members' own opinions of 4minute) might be good for finding out information like that.

I would also recommend any sources that might disappear to be archived at webcitation.org or web.archive.org.

Good luck! --Prosperosity (talk) 01:28, 12 February 2014 (UTC)