Talk:Mina (Italian singer)/GA1

GA Review

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I've placed the article on hold for up to seven days to address the following issues.

General

• A serious review of wikilinking is needed. In many places, you've added links without reviewing where they lead, and many times they lead to disambiguation pages.
• The prose is rough; it will need a once-over by someone with a strong command of English to remove what seem to be awkward phrases, possibly translated from another language or written without a professional-level proficiency in English. An example from the Lead is "caused her a ban" which is not a correct phrase in English; you want something like "caused her to be banned" (I made that change).
• The number of non-English sources make verification of sources very difficult. One site (the "Catalog of Cool") I could not access because my browser warned it was a security threat. You have several things cited to that source—is it reliable? What kind of site is it?
• Look for colloquialisms such as "rock'n'roll" which aren't common in formal English writing. In this case, use "rock and roll".

Lead

• Your wikilink to the term "rocker" goes to a disambiguation page and there is no clear choice for an article that define the term. Can we find a better term to use?
• Unclear what you mean when you say "the publicity" labeled her something.
• "Mina's chart-toppers in West Germany and Japan in 1962–1964 earned her titles of the best international artist in the countries." Is that an official title, or just something being written in the media of the time?

Please check the International success and Growing up paras for that.

• "banned from the public Italian channels in 1963" What channels? Television? Radio? Both?
• Pretty sure terms like "catholic" should be capitalized.
• "Italian top songwriters created material ..." Seems backward; why not "Top Italian songwriters"?

Baby Gate

• The first three sentences of the Baby Gate section don't flow at all. Why did the nightclub owner think she was "unruly"? You don't explain. The third sentence is a complete non sequitur.
• "It remained Mina's last performance with the Happy Boys, as her family refused to let her skip college to join the band's tour of Turkey." This confused me—you mention earlier that she joined this band, but the way you've written about her performances creates the impression that she was alone. Was she with Happy Boys for "her first single" and so on?
• "In December, her performance at the Sei giorni della canzone festival of Milan was greeted by La Notte newspaper as 'The birth of a star'." This is a potential MoS problem to watch out for. Does the source capitalize "The"? If not, should be lowercase.

Queen of Screamers

• "As the first hit with the band, Mina took Betty Curtis's swing song" You don't tell us which song.
• "The starlet signed with Elio Gigante, an experienced artist manager." As before, it's unclear when you are writing about Mina herself or her entire band.
• "In late 1959, the name Baby Gate was dropped." By whom, and in favor of what?
• "turning to the ballad genre" Ballads aren't a genre; they are just a type of song marked by certain rhythmic characteristics.
• "'È vero' was the first left outside the final seven." Unclear. What does this mean?
• "The young singer's eventual transformation from a rock'n'roll shrieker to a feminine inspiration for cantautori was Gino Paoli's song 'Il cielo in una stanza' ('The Sky in a Room')." Rather than writing that a transformation "was" a song, revise to explain that the song was part of or served as an instrument of that transformation.

Artistry

• I'm somewhat unclear about your meaning of the term "Artistry" in this context. From the lead of the section, it seems that you will talk about her singing style; however, the section contains a mixture of aesthetics, musical genres, and style. The opening of this section should be expanded to explain what you will talk about.

Personal life

• "At her age of 16 at the swimming pool" Ungrammatical.
• "In a year's time her affair with Corrado ended" Phrases like this can be simplified to "Within a year of her affair with Corrado ending"

--Andy Walsh (talk) 20:06, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

• Update: I've failed the article, as I don't feel sufficient progress was made. You addressed my individual examples, but not my general concerns at the top. As mentioned, this will need a good copyedit by someone with a strong command of English—there are too many grammatical deficiencies to list out. --Andy Walsh (talk) 17:11, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

• Excuse, I allow me to give you some small correction and some close examination: the intimate relationships whit Walter Chiari and Gian Maria Volonté, as others, have been never "admitted" by Mina, and they are only to consider news of gossip. Daniele Parolini, the fullback for the U.S. Cremonese football club, become then sporting reporter for "Corriere della Sera", was and is a great friend of Mina. So the first true boyfriend of the singer is Conrad Pani. Shortly after she has known Augusto Martelli, her composer, their relationship has lasted up approximately to the end of the years'60. The marriage was hypothesized by some gossip's newspapers, but it never happened. Her first husband was Virgilio Crocco. They got married later around two weeks to have known, a love at first sight. Virgilio was already particularly attracted by Mina before knowing her, he wrote in fact an article in which the emotional involvement for her was clear. Their daughter Benedetta was born November 11 th 71, not 72. Virgilio died October 8 th 73 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, while he was crossing the road to reenter in the hotel with a friend been instead unharmed. Dynamics of accident were never clarified. The hypotheses were that he had simply been a pirate of the road, or that the homicide was voluntary, because Virgilio, author of very important investigations, was investigating there, respect some "burning" facts. For a few years frequented Alfredo Cerruti, a record (=discografico). At the end of the 70 she began to frequent Eugenio Quaini instead, great cardiologist, more young than her. Besides, only in Switzerland the women later gotten married acquire the last name of their husband, not in Italy. "Mina Anna Quaini" is valid only for the Swiss law. Out of the Swiss nation she stays Mina Anna Mazzini. Her brother, Alfredo Mazzini, was born in '43. Also he encouraged by her sister had begun to work as singer in 62 as "Geronimo" (nickname chosen by Mina), but a part of public had some "prejudices" on him because brother of great Mina. Despite this he got a good success, 'cause had a beautiful voice. But just as Mina doesn't love to perform in front of a big public, so he chooses to work with his father in the firm of family while it is making records. For one year as all the boys of that epoch, he made the obligatory military service. The fatal accident has happened in 65 while Alfredo returned from a departed evening in a place in which he had sung. Some voices narrate that Mina, particularly tied up to her brother from deep love, wakes up suddenly that night, without succeeding more to fall asleep. This way when their uncle called her to tell than it happened, he already found her standing. --AlfaBetaGamma (talk) 02:37, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

This would be interesting to add indeed. Just back it up with solid sources. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 14:02, 14 October 2010 (UTC)