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2005

Age fabrication says she "has been rumored to actually be several years older. These claims are severe, as Gibson played in many juvenile tennis tournaments that she would have been unable to play in at an older age." I see no mention of this on her own article but the claim is not true. The 1930 census, taken in April, lists her as being 2 years, 8 months old. Questors 04:14, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Althea Gibson Death

Died On September 28, 20

sources

Please provide sources, either for an age debate and/or for the date of death. -- Mjquin_id (talk) 05:25, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

interesting?

http://www.sylvesterstein.com/about/about-4.html Snori (talk) 00:40, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA

My rewrite on this article is just about complete, and after a few more citation tweaks and other minor fixes, I'm going to submit it for promotion to Good Article status. If anyone has any further improvements to suggest, now would be the time. DoctorJoeE ^{review transgressions}/_{talk to me!} 01:50, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

And apropos the above -- I've never been a big fan of the "Grand Slam singles tournament timeline" box in any of the tennis articles, because they're confusing and don't improve the articles. The one is this article is especially confusing and useless. Would anyone object if I removed it? DoctorJoeE ^{review transgressions}/_{talk to me!} 14:02, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've got to agree, it isn't adding anything here whatsoever. Courcelles 04:41, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I find it useful in showing how a player's career with respect to the Grand Slam events progressed, but it needs a fuller legend. Tewapack (talk) 05:19, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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US State abbreviations

I feel the MoS should give some guidance on these. They are not widely understood outside the United States, so should be written in full the first time or omitted (we don't usually need to be told e.g. that Philadelphia is in PA). I was about to leave a note at the MoS: they are a special case of abbreviations. Rothorpe (talk) 02:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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GA Review

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Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 11:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comments - a good piece of work, mainly technical issues... (P.S. I was asked by Ritchie333 to help out with the Women in Green project to get to 25 GAs before the end of the year, so this is my first review of that project's material...)

"French Championship" is piped to a redirect.
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
As is Wimbledon, U.S. Nationals and US Open too.
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
And why "U.S." and then "US"? Consistency.
- Fixed. Standardized to US. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I would also avoid using two piped links to the same target article.
- Removed the second one. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I think it more relevant to link Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year than Associated Press.
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Robert Ryland is usually known as Bob, and has an article.
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Where is her height referenced?
- Added HOF ref there. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
And her handedness?
- Added ITF ref. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
And her highest ranking?
- Added HOF ref there. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"organized sports.[9][2] " numerical order for refs.
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You have "(FAMU)" but then never use it.
- I left it, because I think it is an alternate common name of the school. (It's not there to be an abbreviation.) Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - Understood. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:45, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
(While USTA rules officially prohibited racial or ethnic discrimination, players qualified for the Nationals by accumulating points at sanctioned tournaments, most of which were held at white-only clubs.)[21] This should either be a regular sentence or a footnote, not a parenthesised sentence mid-prose.
- Removed parentheses. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 22:01, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You haven't explained what USTA is before using it.
- Clarified that the USLTA is now just the USTA. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 22:01, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Lester Rodney has an article.
- Linked. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You don't link Wimbledon in the first para of the Amateur career section but you do link it in the second para...
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 22:01, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"Singles" and "Doubles" are piped to redirects and to the same article...
- Removed both. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 22:01, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Shirley Fry is piped to a redirect back to Shirley Fry.
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"1957 was, in her ..." avoid staring sentences with numbers.
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"Robert F. Wagner, Jr." these kinds of names no longer use a comma.
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
There's a season article for the Wightman Cup at 1957 Wightman Cup.
- Added a separate link for the tie. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"Althea Gibson is congratulated..." no need for "Althea".
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
" Queen Elizabeth II" is all linked but in the caption just the "Elizabeth II" of "Queen Elizabeth II " is linked, be consistent.
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
" Waldorf-Astoria Hotel" not hyphenated according to our article.
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
" nearly $1 million" not sure you really need to link this, and certainly not this far into the article when $ has already been used.
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"Newark, NJ, " spell out NJ.
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"Theodore Roosevelt Award, " is unnecessarily piped.
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"Althea Gibson's 1956 Wimbledon ..." again no need for the first name.
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
What is sourcing all the material (including set scores) in the Grand Slam finals section?
- Added ref columns. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 00:22, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
In sortable tables, all linked items should be linked every time.
- I'm not that against adding these links for this article, but it's pretty standard to link just once in all other tennis articles. (There isn't much reason for these tables to be sortable, but that's also standard use.) Sportsfan77777 (talk) 22:01, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - Well the problem comes with once the tables are re-sorted, the linked item doesn't necessarily appear first, so I'd suggest either all are linked, none are linked, or the tables are made unsortable. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:45, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    - Fair enough. I linked everything. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 16:29, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
There needs to be a key to explain what (2) means (for example).
- Added. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 22:01, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Page ranges need consistent approach, i.e. you have pp. 220–224 and pp. 167–8.
- Standardized to full page numbers. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ref 28 needs fixing.
- Fixed, but I don't know how to link the book like in the other ones. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Use a consistent date format for all publication dates and a consistent format for all accessdates. They don't have to be the same format, but it makes no sense to me at least why they would be different.
- Fixed. Standardized to US mdy format. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 23:13, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
No spaced hyphens in the ref titles, make sure they're spaced en-dashes.
- Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Are all those external links necessary? If they're so useful, could some of them not be incorporated into the main part of the article?
- Removed most of them. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 22:01, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That's all I have, so I'll put this on hold for now. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:50, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: Thanks for reviewing the article, and for helping out with the project! I addressed all of the comments above. Let me know if there is anything else. And @Ritchie333: thanks for finding a reviewer! Sportsfan77777 (talk) 00:22, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Couple of responses inline above. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:45, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: I added a reply. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 22:18, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm happy with this now, it easily passes the GA criteria and the work done above has made it even better. Good stuff. The Rambling Man (talk) 08:59, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not true

I wrote that very thing and you stole it from me 209.106.160.99 (talk) 15:28, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Althea Gibson (1927–2003) was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. On May 27, 1956, she became the first African American to win a Grand Slam title (the French Championships). The following year she won both Wimbledon and the US Nationals (precursor of the US Open), then won both again in 1958 and was voted Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press in both years. In all, she won 11 Grand Slam tournaments: five singles titles, five doubles titles, and one mixed doubles title. In the early 1960s she also became the first Black player to compete on the Women's Professional Golf Tour.

Photograph credit: Fred Palumbo (New York World-Telegram and The Sun); restored by Adam Cuerden

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I marked the line "resigned after one year due to lack of autonomy, budgetary oversight, and adequate funding" because "adequate" doesn't make sense. Presumably it should be "inadequate" but I was unable to find the source material online. I used the "verify spelling" tag, as I didn't find a better one. Paleolith (talk) 16:36, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting that I read the line as meaning a lack of all those things. So as written a... lack of autonomy, lack of budgetary oversight, lack of adequate funding. Fyunck(click) (talk) 18:06, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]