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Reviewer: Sindinero (talk · contribs) 19:15, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
I wonder whether this section shouldn't be renamed and/or split up into two sections. The first long paragraph concerns her dislike of repetition and her stage personae, but the second paragraph is just straight influences, which doesn't seem covered by either "musical style" or "image," exactly. Sindinero (talk) 09:13, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
This section is pretty long (and will, presumably/hopefully, only continue to get longer as the years go by). Would there be a logical way to break it up at all, somewhere around 2000 or so? Before I pass this article for the MOS/layout criterion, I'd like to hear what people think about this issue and the issue above, on "musical style and image". Sindinero (talk) 09:16, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
If Kurt Cobain lists Dry as his 16th favorite album in his journals, then we need a citation to that source. Also, I've tagged the part of the sentence that says that Dry is "indirectly mentioned in Spin" - first of all the word "indirectly" suggests WP:OR, and secondly it may not even be correct. The source says that Cobain "loves the new PJ Harvey record." This issue is from October, 1993, so it's likely the record in question is "Rid of Me." Sindinero (talk) 08:19, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
The quote given: "we started playing and I suppose there was about fifty people there, and during the first song we cleared the hall. There was only about two people left. And a woman came up to us, came up to my drummer, it was only a three piece, while we were playing and shouted at him 'Don't you realize nobody likes you! We'll pay you, you can stop playing, we'll still pay you!'" is not in the source given. This needs to be sourced or removed. Sindinero (talk) 08:19, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
I have some reservations about this passage: " Around the time of To Bring You My Love, for example, Harvey began experimenting with her image and adopting an elaborate, theatrical, almost cabaret edge to her live shows. Where she once performed on stage in simple black leggings, turtleneck sweaters and Doc Martens, she now began performing in ballgowns, pink catsuits, wigs and garish, vampish make-up – including false eyelashes and fingernails – and using stage props like a broomstick and a Ziggy Stardust-style flashlight microphone." The wording here sounds a lot like music journalism, and I wonder if whoever wrote this might be sticking a little too closely to the source. Does anyone have access to where this came from (presumably the Spin article cited shortly afterwards)? It would probably be a good idea to reword this, if it is close to the original wording, to avoid inadvertent plagiarism. In any case, I've marked this sentence with a cn template since it's unclear that the Spin citation actually covers this material. Sindinero (talk) 11:55, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
In the sentence towards the end of the influences section: "...has also drawn inspiration from Russian folk music, Italian soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone, classical composers like Arvo Pärt, Samuel Barber and Henryk Górecki, and Neil Young," Neil Young is the only influence that's sourced, as far as I can tell, which is why I put the cn template where I did. Are there sources available for the others? Sindinero (talk) 12:11, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
I've gone through the whole article, and put the review on hold until the last few issues can be fixed. These are all detailed above, but in summary:
Sindinero (talk) 09:20, 27 February 2012 (UTC)