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GA Review

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GA review (see here for criteria)
  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (MoS):
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects): b (focused):
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. It is stable.
    No edit wars, etc.:
  6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
    a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
  7. Overall:
    Pass/Fail:

Fail In my opinion there is a lot of work that needs doing here and as such I am failing this nomination. This is my first GA review, but I have experience as a viewer at FLC and have I have left comments and some rationales as to where I think this fails the criteria. This is a very rough overview of the problems and is by no means exhaustive.

1a

  • The whole thing needs a copyedit/peer review
  • A fair few one or two sentence paragraphs. This is a real structural problem in this article.
  • The lowest point of their season came at Goodison Park, where they were beaten 7-1 by Everton, which Keane described as "one of the lowest points" of his career - repetition of lowest point is awkward
  • Keane, however, was reluctant to join the post-tournament celebrations, later claiming that, as far as he was concerned, Ireland's World Cup was a disappointment - doesn't flow at all because it is full of, or could have less of, the little interjections, which in my opinion, are breaking up the flow. See what I mean.

1b

  • Lacking ndashes in number/year ranges
  • Inconsistent date formats DD Month YYYY & Month DD, YYYY
  • Dates linked in Personal Life section
  • Citation coming before punctuation instead of after.

2a

  • A citation needed tag in the Sunderland section
  • Should use citation templates.

2b

2c

  • Couldn't find anything citing "None of Keane's team-mates voiced support for him during the meeting, although some supported him in private afterwards."
  • a famous 1-0 victory , "famous" says who?
  • easy 3-0 victory over Leeds, "easy"?
  • Some argue that Sunderland's 2007-08 season in the Premier League was marred with bad luck - who is "some"

3b

  • This is a very long article that I feel could be summarised better. Ramblings like "at the height of an extreme period of bad blood between United and Arsenal" don't help the cause.

4.

  • Seems to be a slight bias towards Keane: e.g. "greatly assisted by a number of match-winning performances from Keane"

6

  • A few more images would be nice, but I realise that the availability of free images is the limitation here.

I hope my comments are of some help. Best of luck for the future, Rambo's Revenge (talk) 21:04, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]