Talk:Charles Faroux

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 13:25, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

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Charles Faroux at the 1922 French Grand Prix

• ... that Charles Faroux (pictured) helped to initiate the 24 Hours of Le Mans? Source: http://www.historicracing.com/driver_detail.cfm?driverID=1682
  • ALT1 ... that Motorsport journalist Charles Faroux (pictured) was also a three time balkline billiards world champion? Enzyklopädie des Billardsports. Vol. 1 (1. ed.). Heinrich Weingartner. 2009. p. 156. ISBN 978-3-200-01489-3.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Miramare di Rimini
• Comment: Not a big Motorsport guy, but he's super notable for that. Let me know if there's any issues.

Created by Lee Vilenski (talk). Self-nominated at 21:57, 10 August 2019 (UTC).

• @Lee Vilenski: I'll review this one. epicgenius (talk) 15:07, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - There's one "citation needed" tag, but according to DYK rules, it's not that major compared to if the article was mostly unsourced. However, this should be rectified anyway.
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - Either hook is fine but the original is better.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: epicgenius (talk) 15:07, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Epicgenius - Is this a pass? Could I get the {{DYKtick}}? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 07:25, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

• @Lee Vilenski: No major problems with the article, however, you may want to get the citation-needed tag fixed before this appears on DYK. epicgenius (talk) 12:34, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

• Hi, I came by to promote this. Could you please tidy up the grammar in this sentence: In 1905 he took what? place in his first world carrom championships, at the and by 1907 huh? reached second place, which he accomplished again in 1910. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 00:27, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

• Reworded Yoninah Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 07:44, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you. I cleaned up other language in the article; it read like a bad translation. Restoring tick per Epicgenius' review. Yoninah (talk) 13:25, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Charles Faroux/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: An anonymous username, not my real name (talk · contribs) 16:50, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

I will gladly review this. The review should be ready shortly. An anonymous username, not my real name (talk) 16:50, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

I'm afraid there are too many serious errors for such a short article. I've compiled them and some more minor things as well.

• Infobox should have more information added.
  • Just a note, infoboxes aren't even manditory, so I'd rather just delete it.Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:59, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
• The citation in the lead shouldn't be necessary because the information can be found in the body.
  • Moved Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:10, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
• His birthday is never mentioned in the article.
  • Cited Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:10, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
• Rename the career section to something like "Early life and career".
  • Done Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:10, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
• He visited the United States and spent several months in Alaska. [...] He saw the end of the war as a technician for Hispano-Suiza, where he was responsible for the supply of aircraft engines. The citation for these lines does and everything between them does not verify them.
• Earwig has found copyright issues with the carom billiards section, which seems to have been copied verbatim from here.
  • Considering this is a translation of our French article, it seems high likely this was copied from our article on Faroux.Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:59, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
• Faroux died in February 1957 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. The citation here is for an article before his stated death, so naturally it doesn't support this claim.
  • Good catch, it was in the wrong place, I've done a shuffle. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:10, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
• The last section should probably be a table.
  • I disagree with this - they generally aren't in table form for won titles.Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:10, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I must fail this. My condolences. An anonymous username, not my real name (talk) 17:17, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for taking a look, I've left some comments for a later future nom. Hope you don't mind Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:10, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

My apologies if I was a little overly strict with the review. I hope your future nomination is successful. An anonymous username, not my real name (talk) 18:19, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Not at all, there's clearly a few things to work on. Thanks for the review. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:23, 5 November 2022 (UTC)