Talk:1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon

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Did you know... that during the women's marathon at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics, one runner fell out of medal contention when she stopped for a toilet break?

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 04:31, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that during the women's marathon at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics one runner fell out of medal contention when she stopped for a toilet break? Source: "Joyce surrenders 50 yards and possibly a chance of a medal with an unavoidable dash to one of the green convenient cubicles" (The Times)

Reviewed: Emma Lamb

5x expanded by Harrias (talk). Self-nominated at 16:25, 2 July 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

I've added an extra footnote to meet the hook citation requirement. feminist (talk) 03:32, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 19:39, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Taking this review. MWright96 (talk) 19:39, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): 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 and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

Lead

Think it would help to add the country Kaneko and May represented for consistency in the lead

Added. Harrias ^talk 08:22, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Background

"though there was significant opposition" - from whom?

A bit of everyone; I'm not sure how much detail to go into here, given that the opposition was to its inclusion in the Olympics, rather than the World Championships. Essentially, the organisers of the Olympics, the "Soviet bloc", and you know, men. Harrias ^talk 08:26, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"announced that it would be added to the program" - should the word in bold be programme instead?

Oops. Harrias ^talk 08:22, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Press in the United States rated Julie Brown" - How about amending the text in bold to The American press?

Changed as suggested. Harrias ^talk 08:22, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Amby Burfoot said that despite the fact Waitz had beaten Brown in their previous meetings" - how many previous meetings?

The source just says "several". Harrias ^talk 08:22, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikilink Amby Burfoot

Linked. Harrias ^talk 08:22, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Summary

Ireland should be wikilinked to the Republic of Ireland article, not to the article discussing the whole Island of Ireland

It shouldn't be linked at all. Removed. Harrias ^talk 08:22, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Two miles later," - what about changing his text to say Two miles (3.2 km) for consistency?

Yes, definitely. Harrias ^talk 08:22, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"as there weren't men" - were not; no contractions please per MOS:CONTRACTION

Eugh, it's been a while since I've made that mistake. Fixed. Harrias ^talk 08:22, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

Wikilink Amby Burfoot in Reference 7 and The Hartford Courant
Wikilink The Boston Globe in Reference 8
Wikilink Kenny Moore in Reference 9

Linked all three, plus "The Atlanta Constitution". Harrias ^talk 08:22, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Will put the review on hold to allow the nominator to respond/query the points raised above. MWright96 (talk) 06:53, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@MWright96: Thanks for the review. A few rookie errors in there; with the GA queue getting a bit longer again, I must admit to throwing this onto the nominations pile before completing my final read-through. Anyway, hopefully all resolved now. Harrias ^talk 08:22, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Harrias: Now promoting to GA class. MWright96 (talk) 08:53, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]