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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Taylor Swift(pictured) is the first act to have three albums with opening week sales of one million copies in the US?
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Article lacks real artistic and social criticism. There are a couple paragraphs under songwriting, but the critics are dismissed as "rockists" or "sexists". To give an example, Swift is a central figure of "Poptimism", the critical belief that popularity is a sign of quality. This asserts that mass-market pop culture (like Taylor Swift or Marvel movies) deserves the same level of serious respect and analysis as "high art" or underground indie culture. In the book Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century, W. David Marx is quite critical of this. He argues that while poptimism started as a way to validate the enjoyment of relatively derivative music, it has morphed into a corporate-friendly (ie. financially lucrative) ideology that discourages risk-taking. He suggests it has helped create a "blank space" in culture where we endlessly recycle safe, popular hits instead of innovating. Swift is a prime example of poptimism, according to Marx. Poptimism has "bled into a broader belief that it was bad manners to criticize any cultural product that people liked, whether it be a pop song or a superhero movie or a romance novel", which in fact this article mirrors. -- GreenC00:35, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You just made this up. Marx does not say about Swift what you quoted from the book. Don't halluncinate information. Wikipedia sticks to sources about the article's subject that mentions her explicitly. This is a biography article, not a review of Swift's person. "Article lacks real artistic and social criticism", I think you should go write your own article and publish it. Wikipedia isn't a blog to express your personal opinions. But if you're really serious about actually including criticism and countercriticism of Swift's cultural impact, then this is the article to do that, not the biography. You're more than welcome to include criticism of Swift's fandom/music in the cultural lense there (there's even a subsection about Poptimism). Regards. ℛonherry☘07:15, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Not done The relatives parameter in the infobox is for notable relatives who have their own Wikipedia articles only. That's why there are only two relatives listed. These are the two who have Wikipedia pages of their own. If we didn't have that guideline, there would be a lot of people to include, and this list would be too long. Her parents are mentioned later in the article, and that's sufficient. Bowling is life (talk) 03:29, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Should the intro call her a philanthropist, or mention philanthropy somewhere?
I ask because I keep seeing headlines about her charity contributions, random GoFundMe donations, and generous bonuses given to team members. Many major publications talk about her donations, big and small. However, I don't know what an appropriate threshold for this would be.
level-4 vital article is rated FA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Not done The relatives parameter in the infobox is for notable relatives who have their own Wikipedia articles only. That's why there are only two relatives listed. These are the two who have Wikipedia pages of their own. If we didn't have that guideline, there would be a lot of people to include, and this list would be too long. Her parents are mentioned later in the article, and that's sufficient. Bowling is life (talk) 03:29, 14 December 2025 (UTC)