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Buddy Holly was a Music good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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October 22, 2010	Good article nominee	Not listed
September 9, 2015	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former good article nominee

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Unnecessary level of detail

At Buddy Holly § Winter Dance Party tour and death (1959), this seems unnecessarily gory:

The bodies of the entertainers were all ejected from the plane on impact, while Peterson's body remained entangled in the wreckage. Holly had sustained fatal trauma to his head and chest and numerous lacerations and fractures of his arms and legs.

Is it really insufficient to know, from the previous sentence, that they were:

killed instantly when their plane crashed into a cornfield

? How about adding the AutopsyFiles.org ref to this sentence or External Links for those who really need to know? —[AlanM1(talk)]— 07:10, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

External links

The "External links" section is a link farm with eleven links and needs trimming. Otr500 (talk) 08:21, 1 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I burned six, was thinking about a seventh, but figured at least his fellow Texans would expect to see something from Texas there. InedibleHulk (talk) 04:34, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism by 1.43.142.179

@Sundayclose: I see you had to revert a lot of edits by non-registered users recently. In this reversion of your reversion (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buddy_Holly&type=revision&diff=993175413&oldid=993161326), the person infobox was lost, which means the field for spouse was lost as well. I just put in a request for the article to be semi-protected. -- GravityIsForSuckers (talk) 21:05, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I looked at the edit history. That was annoying. How do we put the spouse field back? I tried, but it just wouldn't show up. Givemedonuts (talk) 21:31, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Givemedonuts: When I originally added it a couple years ago, I made the main infobox a "person" infobox, then embedded the musical artist infobox with the "module" field name. Then the spouse field goes into the "person" infobox (note the diff link I posted above). -- GravityIsForSuckers (talk) 21:40, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Givemedonuts: I fixed the infobox -- GravityIsForSuckers (talk) 04:13, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, wow. I have nooooooo idea about these things. Cheers to you! Givemedonuts (talk) 09:50, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Removed commentary

I came across two parenthetical comments within the article that did not seem appropriate there, and I removed them both. The paragraph, as it existed prior to me removing the two comments (but with references removed to not mess up this Talk Page), is as follows:

In 1952 Holly and Jack Neal participated as a duo billed as Buddy and Jack in a talent contest on a local television show. After Neal left, he was replaced by Bob Montgomery, and they were billed as Buddy and Bob. They soon started performing on the Sunday Party show on KDAV in 1953 and performed live gigs in Lubbock. At that time, Holly was influenced by late-night radio stations that played blues and rhythm and blues (R&B). (no evidence of this, at all) He would sit in his car with Curtis and tune to distant radio stations that could only be received at night, when local transmissions ceased. Holly then modified his music by blending his earlier country and western influence with R&B. (there's no evidence of this being true and its reference isn't credible)

If this is to be debated, then I think that discussion is more appropriate here. synthfiend (talk) 22:24, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]