Talk:Music of Maryland

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Music of Maryland is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
September 28, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
October 23, 2005	Good article nominee	Listed
November 11, 2005	Featured article candidate	Promoted
June 21, 2014	Featured article review	Demoted
Current status: Former featured article

Work needed

This article, which was promoted to FA in 2005, has not kept up with standards and needs significant work if it is not to be taken to WP:FAR. Overall, referencing is lacking, especially in the Popular music section, where numerous paragraphs are completely lacking references, and where there are numerous unsourced opinion statements ("popular", "thriving", etc.). Existing referencing also needs attention, with books lacking page numbers, some references lacking identifying information (What is Ref #19? It is just identified as "The Urbanite"?) and dead links (#21, for instance). I am concerned that one reference is used to source the entirety of the Early independence and Early 20th century sections, especially as the source gives no pointers as to why the authors of the "essay" should be considered experts (it says they "specialize", but gives no published works - books, journal articles, etc.). It appears that other possible sources have been overlooked; for instance, see:

This book on music in Colonial and Revolutionary America, with a section on Music in Maryland, which I found in just a quick Google books search.

Also, there seem to be numerous books on Maryland in general that mention music. At this point, as I said above, the article does not meet the featured article criteria and needs to be either improved or taken to FAR. Dana boomer (talk) 15:06, 5 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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