Talk:Hobie Landrith/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Globalwheels (talk · contribs) 14:48, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

Small format issue, external links should be in a bullet point list. Also does career stats need to be under a section 2 heading considering it's just one line with a box and no key. Surely a level three header under playing career would do?

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
Fails MOS as for an article this size lead needs to be 3 paragraphs. Plus what was written in the second para imo is somewhat redundant.
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
Assume good faith for all offline sources.
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, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
On hold for now

OK. I'll give it a shot later this week. I think in expanding the article I actually left the lead almost entirely alone. I won't be able to fix these few issues until Thursday night or Friday, but anyone else is more than welcome to have a go at it. Thanks. Agent Vodello^{OK, Let's Party, Darling!} 03:25, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just seen baseball-reference.com is a dead link, minor point but worth fixing if you want to go to FA.

Sorry for being late on this. Illness and all that. Wish I had longer than a day to fix this, but I'll see what I can do later today. Thanks-- Agent Vodello^{OK, Let's Party, Darling!} 15:57, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No rush, no worries take your time :) Globalwheels (talk) 16:31, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note – The nominator of this GAN has been indefinitely blocked as a sock puppet of banned user KnowIG (talk · contribs). ~~I recommend that this GAN be quick-failed as a result.~~ –MuZemike 23:53, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ugh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that the banned user was the reviewer. However, I still think that a new GA review will need to be started by a non-banned user, as IMO it can be uncomfortable for someone else to pick up another's review (though that does happen from time to time). –MuZemike 23:58, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well that's a major pain in the ass. I feel like the banned user cheated me with this. I'm sure there are extra problems with the article, and I won't have time to get to it all. If the only concerns truly are the ones above by the banned user, I may be able to get to it sometime, but otherwise I'm just not even going to bother since I'm not that good of a writer and I'd much rather spend my time expanding stubs to B-class articles. Anyone at WP:BASEBALL is more than welcome to fix this article's issues since we have so few articles that have actually reached GA+ status, but if no one can help I'm content with this article never reaching GA status. It's already looking like a way too much trouble to be worth it, as I wasn't involved with the nomination to begin with. I need to work on the stub Al Worthington some more anyway. Oh well. Thanks for exposing this fraud user anyway. Agent Vodello^{OK, Let's Party, Darling!} 00:25, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If no one else will take up your review, I can do it. I'd probably basically start from scratch on it. Let me know. --LauraHale (talk) 01:28, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sucks that there's now a big notice on the talk page that says, "Hobie Landrith was nominated as a Everyday life good article but did not meet the good article criteria at the time." which makes it look like this is a crap article. I asked WP:BASEBALL for assistance, but they didn't respond. This GAN has been marked as failed, and I guess it's just going to stay that way unless someone else comes along and fixes the prose, which I doubt will happen at this rate. Thanks for the offer, but GAN looks like far more trouble than it's worth now. Agent Vodello^{OK, Let's Party, Darling!} 17:06, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]