Talk:Louis Tomlinson

Featured list nomination for List of songs written by Louis Tomlinson

An article related to Louis Tomlinson, List of songs written by Louis Tomlinson, has been nominated for featured list candidacy. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the nomination page. Thanks. jolielover♥talk 06:50, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by TarnishedPath (talk) 11:30, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that when he was a member of one of the best-selling boy bands of all time, Louis Tomlinson was also a part of the football club Doncaster Rovers?

• Source: Best selling: NYT, Variety

Rovers: The Guardian

• • ALT1: ... that Louis Tomlinson, who was kicked out of his school band, later became a member of one of the best-selling boy bands of all time? Source: Kicked out: The Guardian
    Best selling: NYT, Variety
  • ALT2: ... that the English singer Louis Tomlinson almost bought a football club? Source: The Guardian
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kato Serwanga

Improved to Good Article status by Jolielover (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 29 past nominations.

jolielover♥talk 13:08, 11 October 2025 (UTC).

• I'll review this. Thriley (talk) 19:37, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Article has achieved Good Article status. No issues of copyvio or plagiarism. All sources appear reliable. All hooks are interesting and sourced. QPQ is done. Looks good. Thriley (talk) 18:01, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

• @Jolielover and Thriley: was Tomlinson actually kicked out, or effectively kicked out when the other members formed a new band? The sourcing's a bit contradictory... theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 04:03, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
  • @Theleekycauldron: I guess the latter is the truer one. jolielover♥talk 03:26, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

    @Theleekycauldron and Jolielover: What else needs doing?--Launchballer 10:34, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

    @Launchballer: ALTs 0 and 2 are still available if you want 'em, actually, but i think we'd need more sources to resolve the contradictions in ALT1. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 16:51, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

No-one's questioned the approval of ALT0 or ALT2, so marking this accordingly. (I might hide his name under 'a member of one of the best-selling boy bands of all time', but I'll let a promoter make that choice.)--Launchballer 14:32, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

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Add mention of Palaces

In the section of career, 2023-now, it would be good to add a mention of the second single leading up to the release of Tomlinson’s new album (How did I get here?), Palaces. ~2026-10561-4 (talk) 02:52, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done jolielover♥talk 12:54, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

Peer review

Louis Tomlinson

I've listed this article for peer review because I hope to bring it to Featured Article status. It is currently a GA. Anything is welcome! From my GA, I thought I had addressed everything, but let me know if some things are lacking in terms of an FA. For specific sections to look at: I'd appreciate looking at the Football section, I don't know much about football so I only hope it's accurate and comprehensive per the sources and in relation to his professional football stint. I also hope the tone is not too positive, or too biased for him.

Thanks, jolielover♥talk 12:47, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

sallam alaikum. i do know a bit about football (or soccer, i prefer calling it football), and i think the football section is pretty good, and quite comprehensive for what is a relative blip on this article. the tone's not too bad, the sources are good, too. unfortunately i don't have much else to add here, sorry =( but i hoped this helped =) BedsAreBurning aka Sound🇵🇸 21:39, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

It's fine, thanks for reviewing :) yes football is not the reason he's famous at all lol but considering he joined a team and almost bought a club, I guess it's a pretty big deal, so wanted to make sure it was alright. jolielover♥talk 04:21, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

@Jolielover This has been around for a couple of months and has pretty much stalled. Do you have any objection to my closing it per WP:CLOSEPR? RoySmith (talk) 16:49, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Drive-by comment

I notice that this article cites BroadwayWorld. What makes this a reliable source, especially how WP:BROADWAYWORLD says "this website should generally not be used for facts about living persons"? Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 09:58, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

• Thanks, I've removed this. jolielover♥talk 05:58, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Octave

Hi jolie, a few notes on sourcing at an FAC standard:

• What makes the Evening Standard, Spectrum Culture, Euphoria, Talent Recap, Culted, TBHonest, Hypebeast, United By Pop, Access All Areas, Endole, and Vice high-quality reliable sources (WP:HQRS and WP:FA?)?
• Consistent reference title casing and linking of parameters will need to be sorted (WP:CITESTYLE).
• Album titles and other major works should be placed in italics in reference titles, just like with normal text (MOS:MAJORWORK and MOS:CONFORMTITLE).
• Simmilarly, songs and other minor works should be placed in quotes – single or double, alternating with other quotes (MOS:MINORWORK and MOS:CONFORMTITLE)
• 178 is 404-ing, so url-status should be set to dead.

My overall impression is that this is might not be a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature (WP:FA?). While there are a lot of quality newspapers and entertainment publications cited, I see a lot of zines and websites of questionable reliability and quality. I know that entertainment (especially teen entertainment) sourcing can be hard to come by, but is this the best sourcing available for this subject? Thanks, UpTheOctave! • 8^va? 18:23, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Jolielover, I was wondering if you'd seen this? Here's a ping if not. UpTheOctave! • 8^va? 21:14, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm busy right now though but when everything is back to normal I'll have a look jolielover♥talk 09:31, 4 March 2026 (UTC)