Talk:Tour de France during World War II

Tour de France during World War II was a Sports and recreation 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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Date	Process	Result
September 12, 2010	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 6, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the organisers of the Tour de France refused to hold the race during WWII, despite the German authorities' offer to open the borders between German-occupied France and Vichy France specially?

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Tour de France during the Second World War/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Jezhotwells (talk) 10:58, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I shall be reviewing this article against the Good Article criteria, following its nomination for Good Article status.

Disambiguations: none found

Linkrot: none found Jezhotwells (talk) 11:12, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Checking against GA criteria

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
The Tour de France was not held during the Second World War because the organisers refused German requests. Although a 1940 Tour de France had been announced earlier, the outbreak of the war made it impossible for it to be held. After that, some attempts were made by the Germans during the war to have a Tour de France to maintain the sense of normality, but l'Auto, the organising newspaper, refused. Some other races were run as a replacement. Repetitive, says the same thing twice. Rewrite for clarity.

After the Second World War, l'Auto was closed for collaborating with the Germans. The rights to organise the Tour went to the French government. When two newspapers were interested in these rights, they could both organise a small Tour of five stages, and the race run by L'Équipe was considered the most successful, therefore L'Équipe could organise the 1947 Tour de France. Extremely poor and ungrammatical.

Already before the war, the political situation in Europe had its influence on the Tour de France. For the 1939 Tour de France, political reasons caused Italy, Germany and Spain to refused to send teams to France for the 1939 Tour de France.[1] The 1938 Tour de France winner, Gino Bartali, was among those affected. Henri Desgrange, the original race organizer, and Jacques Goddet, his deputy and replacement,[Notes 1] announced plans for a Tour de France in August 1940 Ungrammatical, poorly phrased.

The plans for the Tour de France in 1940 were dropped after the German invasion.[3] The records and paperwork of the Tour were taken south to keep them safe but were never seen again.[4][5] Henri Desgrange died in August 1940, and his successor, Jacques Goddet, initially wanted to organise the Tour during the war, arguing that sport should remain neutral. Again, very badly written.

OK, I shall fail this now on the grounds that it is very badly written and the prose in nowhere near the GA standard of reasonably well written, see WP:WIAGA. Suggest that you get the article thoroughly copy-edited and then peer reviewed before renominating.
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
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):
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This article is very badly written. GA nomination is not a substitute for peer review. Please make sure that nominations are up to standard before nominating. Jezhotwells (talk) 11:20, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]