Talk:Dick Rifenburg

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Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
November 30, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
December 18, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 2, 2007.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Dick Rifenburg was a Michigan high school state champion in basketball and track & field, but was drafted to play professional American football?

Current status: Good article

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Family query

I stumbled upon someone who may be his grandson at http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/highschool/story/162311.html?imw=Y . A subsquent google search for the term Doug Rifenburg football Buffalo yielded a link to http://www.ubathletics.buffalo.edu/football/stats/fbrecordbook.pdf, which may have another Rifenburg I have not yet found. That link had the following Google preview clip: Buffalo’s last season in “Big Time”football for over 20 years. ...... Doug Rifenburg. P.J. Riga ______ 1990. Leroy Riley_________1960-61 ...

Another Rifenburg approximately the same age as the one above played football for Santa Clara: http://www.letthemplay.com/roster-a92.htm .--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 15:58, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

More family info citation requests: born to Dorothy Marie Shannon-Rifenburg and Paul Almond Rifenburg, and Also surviving thier brother Dick is Gerald Thomas Rifenburg of Williamsville NY and Toni Sue Rifenburg-Walker of Flagler Beach Florida. Seem believable. Is this sourced or coming from a family member?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 00:57, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article Assessment

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GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
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.
a (fair representation): b (all significant views):
It is stable.
(No edit wars etc.)
It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.
a (tagged and captioned): b lack of images (does not in itself exclude GA): c (non-free images have fair use rationales):
Overall:
a Pass/Fail:

Further analysis:

Image used is appropriately captioned and has no copyright violation etc. outstanding on or in it's history. Y
References are various, well placed (i.e used appropriately and compliant with MOS) and are reliable. Y
Hardly any grammar, spelling mistakes.Y
Only one issue I can bring up:
- In the lead it mentions that WBEN is now known as WIVB, and then again in the professional career section. Is this necessary, the link used is already a redirect and it's already mentioned in the lead. So that might need to be removed. N
  - Y--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 05:15, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

But apart from that, I see nothing wrong with this article and am willing to pass this article. Well done to the editors involved. It's a very good article. — Rudget _{contributions} 20:25, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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