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I've listed this article for peer review because there is definite room for improvement before it can be nominated at GAN and beyond. The style and public image sections probably need the most looking at. Thanks, Kaguya-chan (talk) 15:46, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Finetooth comments: What an interesting musician. This article is broad in coverage, generally well-written, well-organized, and nicely illustrated. I have a few suggestions for further improvement, mostly related to prose and the Manual of Style.

Infobox

• "1997–present" - Since "present" is non-specific, I think the date range is more meaningful as 1997–, with just a blank after the en dash.

Heads and subheads

• It's usually good to make these telegraphic rather than extended. For example, "1979–2001: Early life and beginnings" could become "1979–2001: Beginnings" without losing its essential meaning. "2010–present: Fight Like A Girl" could become "2010– : Fight Like A Girl

Lead

• "Currently she is working on an upcoming album entitled Fight Like a Girl." - Words like "currently", "now", and "today" quickly age and become inaccurate. It's generally better to be specific; i.e., "In 2011, she is working on an album entitled Fight Like a Girl." (I'd just delete "upcoming" since that's implied by the rest of the sentence.)

• "Autumn draws influence for her music—the style of which she has alternatively labeled as "Victoriandustrial" and glam rock—from plays, novels, and history, particularly the Victorian era, with her only musical influence being the English violinist Nigel Kennedy." - This doesn't make sense. How can Nigel Kennedy be her only musical influence? Does she perhaps make the claim that Kennedy is her main musical influence or her most recent musical influence, or something like that?

1979–2001: Early life and beginnings

• "At the age of nine,[note 1][9][7]" - Anywhere in the article where a string of ref numbers appear in a series, the custom is to arrange them in ascending order; i.e., [note 1][7][9].

• "She began writing her own music and poetry at age thirteen/fourteen," - Instead of the often-ambiguous front slash, it's better to use a specific word; i.e., "age thirteen or fourteen".

• "After two years at the university, she left because she disagreed with their views on individuality and classical music." - "University" is singular, but "their" is plural. You could use "it", but a thing doesn't have views. Maybe "the faculty's views"? Or "her professors' views"? Or "the prevailing views"?

2002–2005

• "Convent, for which she recorded all four voices" - Is Convent the name of a song that should appear in quotation marks?

• "sushi-styled soap" - Link sushi?

Influences and musical style

• "While a young Autumn cited Itzhak Perlman as an influence because of the happiness she believed he felt when he played, her only musical influence is Nigel Kennedy." - This seems internally contradictory as well as unlikely in other ways. Could this be rephrased somehow? Maybe "she claims Nigel Kennedy as her primary musical influence"? Or something like that?

• "2002's Enchant drew... " - This should be recast to avoid starting the sentence with digits.

Institutionalization...

• "The release was delayed because some did not want it published." - Would it be possible to be more specific? Who did not want it published?

EPs and singles

• 4 O'Clock appears with a big O here but a little o in the 2006–2009 section.

Bibliography

• Should the publisher, place of publication, and ISBN be included for each entry?

References

• Should Shred News be in italics in citation 9?

• Rather than "official site", I think the publisher should be "Emilie Autumn Ent. LLC". Ditto for some of the other refs to this site.

Images

• File:Alexandre Cabanel, Ophelia.JPG is tagged with a "source" question. If you know the source, it would be good to add it to the image's license page. It may be OK without this bit of data, but it's best to flesh out the data if you possibly can.

I hope these suggestions prove helpful. If so, please consider reviewing another article, especially one from the PR backlog at WP:PR; that is where I found this one. I don't usually watch the PR archives or check corrections or changes. If my comments are unclear, please ping me on my talk page. Finetooth (talk) 20:14, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]