Talk:Sam Matlock/GA1

GA review

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Nominator: Launchballer (talk · contribs) 04:37, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: RandFreeman (talk · contribs) 03:44, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

First impressions

The incident in which Matlock was physically assaulted by security guards does not belong in the personal life section. It should be either its own section or a subsection of the life & career section, and, if you can find reliable sources for this information, you should create a new Personal life section that instead contains information about Matlock's actual personal life (whether he's married/partnered and to whom, if he has any children, if he has disclosed any medical conditions and other personal aspects of him).

Prose quality

Clear, concise and understandable to an appropriately broad audience

Passed. No sentences or phrases that are unclear, poorly worded or grammatically incorrect.

Complies with the Manual of Style

Passed. No issues, barring the one I mentioned in my first impressions.

Verifiability

List of references correctly formatted

Failed; several citations from Dork, Kerrang!, the Belfast Telegraph, Alternative Press et cetera are missing author names despite the sources having listed authors.

Reliable sources cited inline

Passed.

No original research

Passed.

No copyvios

Passed.

Thoroughness

Addresses main aspects

Failed. There is no information on his musical style, any musical artists who influenced his music (barring one sentence about Nirvana), his artistry/creative process or, as I mentioned, his personal life.

No tangents

Passed.

NPOV

Passed.

Stable

Passed.

Illustrated

Media copyright is properly disclosed

Passed. Both pictures of Matlock were taken by Commons users.

Relevant media with suitable captions

Passed.

Outcome and closing remarks

I will put this article On hold, giving you seven days, till December 5, to make the following changes:

• rename the current "Personal life" section to something like "2021 Scala assault",
• fix the citations by adding missing author names,
• create a new "Personal life" section with information about Matlock's personal life, if available and
• create new sections with information about his musical style, influences and creative process.

The current description of his life and career is solid, and with these changes it could easily make GA status. RandFreeman 03:44, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Added all the author names I could find; couldn't find any coverage of his Personal life, am happy to add if I've missed anything. I removed both the Personal life and Early life section headers per MOS:OVERSECTION; while it was borderline for a very large paragraph such as the assault, two sentences absolutely doesn't need a separate header. I also reject the idea that this doesn't discuss his musical style; both bands charting on the UK Rock & Metal Charts is a bit of a clue.--Launchballer 11:17, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

The citations are better, and so is the layout. Given the limited coverage of Sam Matlock by reliable sources this article looks about as good as it can be. The prose is understandable, the citations are properly formatted now, there are no copyright violations and all the media on the page have Creative Commons licenses. Passed. RandFreeman 09:31, 30 November 2025 (UTC)