Talk:Franck Ribéry/GA1

GA Review

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I'll get on this soon. Reviewer: Lampman (talk) 07:02, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A really exciting player, I was happy to do this review. The article needs some work before it can pass as a GA.

The lead is too short, his career should be summarised in more detail. An article this size needs at least two paragraphs, see Wikipedia:Lead_section#Length.
Is it really necessary to give the names of his daughters? They have no independent notability, and WP:BLP should be given extra weight when dealing with minors. I think it's enough to say that he has two daughters.
"Early career" and "Move to Marseille and CAS ruling" have only one ref each. This is not enough when dealing with the biography of a living person, even if the information is not particularly controversial. The first paragraph needs some sourcing, the information on his nickname in Turkey and particularly the controversy with Galatasaray needs to be sourced better.
The article is full of peacock terms, expressions that give the impression of original research, and just plain unencyclopaedic language. I'll list the worst cases, and you should be able to find them and replace or remove them: giants, admirably, methodical, shocking, legend, hammering, unbelievable, destruction, nice, easily, great service. Likewise: "important World Cup playoff", that is redundant, those are inherently important.
Images: "speaking" seems like a bit of a euphemism; I don't think it's reading too much into the picture to say "arguing". "with Bayern Munich" this picture clearly seems to be taken during practice, which should be mentioned. Finally, not a big deal, but the last image confuses me. The photo information says it's the Colombia match and gives the date as April 2008, though that game was actually in June?

I will give the article a week for these things to be fixed. The sourcing is the main obstacle: the other things should be easily fixed. Lampman (talk) 08:50, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see some work has been done. Let me know when you feel you're done, and I'll give it another look. Lampman (talk) 05:06, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You can check it out now anytime. Joao10Siamun (talk) 08:40, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Great, I'll promote it. Good job! Lampman (talk) 14:24, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]