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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on September 4, 2019.

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Date	Process	Result
July 14, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
August 30, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 15, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
November 21, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
January 9, 2007	Featured article candidate	Promoted
December 18, 2021	Featured article review	Demoted
Current status: Former featured article

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This older FA on a living person has not been reviewed since its promotion in 2007.

The article does not comprehensively cover the artist's work that came out after the article's promotion (there are only single-mentions of Invol2ver, Involv3r and Scene Delete in the article. There is coverage out there of these works).
The article is also very dated for a BLP-FA:

now regularly receives - 2006 source;
These tracks...are edited by Sasha - 2006 source;
Sasha runs a music studio and lives in New York City, and maintains a house in London. - 2004 source
Sasha attributes his success to his technical skill and ability to "connect with his dancers". - 2000 source. --> In a 2000 interview, Sasha attributed...

There are so few links dated after 2008 in the article, you'd think the artist retired a decade ago. From a Google search:

The Guardian, 2016;
Iconic Underground Magazine, 2019;
DJ Mag, 2018;
TimeOut, 2016;
Channel4, 2018;
Billboard, 2016;
Billboard, 2017;
Billboard, 2016;
Mixmag, 2016;
DJ Mag, 2017;
Mixmag, 2017 - apparently he is so big he has recent coverage such as "10 iconic Sasha moments", where is named as "The original superstar DJ";
Hero, 2017
Superstar DJs here we go!, D Phillips, 2009
Life After Dark: A History of British Nightclubs & Music Venues, D Haslam, 2015

... The article needs an update to reflect ongoing coverage of the artist. RetiredDuke (talk) 14:57, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

The date of birth needs a proper reference. Allmusic, Discogs, etc, aren't generally considered reliable sources. Deb (talk) 10:12, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hatfield College

"Sasha passed the entrance exam for Hatfield College at age 17. However, he did not like Epsom and left before completing his A-Level examinations."

Problems: The source doesn't mention Hatfield College or Epsom: it says he moved to Maidenhead age 11 and back to Wales age 17. There is no Hatfield College in Epsom. There was a "Hatfield Technical College"/"Hatfield College of Technology" until 1969 at Hatfield in Hertfordshire, a long way from either Epsom or Maidenhead, and Hatfield College, Durham is part of the university.

So this couple of sentences doesn't really make any sense as far as I can see. PamD 15:15, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]