Talk:Nathan Smith (footballer, born 1996)

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Did you know... that Nathan Smith made 110 consecutive appearances for Port Vale after his 2016 English Football League debut?

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GA Review

Passed. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 23:52, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Nathan Smith (footballer, born 1996)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs) 21:55, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I am planning on reviewing this article for GA Status, over the next couple of days. Thank you for nominating the article for GA status. I hope I will learn some new information, and that my feedback is helpful.

If nominators or editors could refrain from updating the particular section that I am updating until it is complete, I would appreciate it to remove a edit conflict. Please address concerns in the section that has been completed above (If I've raised concerns up to references, feel free to comment on things like the lede.)

I generally provide an overview of things I read through the article on a first glance. Then do a thorough sweep of the article after the feedback is addressed. After this, I will present the pass/failure. I may use strikethrough tags when concerns are met. Even if something is obvious why my concern is met, please leave a message as courtesy.

Best of luck! you can also use the {{done}} tag to state when something is addressed. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)}

Please let me know after the review is done, if you were happy with the review! Obviously this is regarding the article's quality, however, I want to be happy and civil to all, so let me know if I have done a good job, regardless of the article's outcome.

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Prose

Lede

No need to link "English". Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:52, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done

I feel like the opening paragraph would benefit from stating when the player has been professional (is, 2014-present). Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:52, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done

We have a section on "style of play" but nothing in the lede about it Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 13:52, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done

General

Can we cite the infobox items to the body? WP:INFOBOXCITE. Things like date of birth can be naturally added. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:00, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done

He signed a one-year professional contract with Port Vale in June 2014 - this is a bit odd... He signed a one year contract but continued to be on the team for years. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:00, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done Some later contract/s weren't reported so I've changed the wording on that to avoid confusion.

Considering we have the stats for his first loan move, perhaps we could add how many games he played on each loan move. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:00, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done

Is there a suitable link for "loan". I'm sure some readers won't be familiar with how it works.Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:00, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done

"can improve with some of his decision making", but that he remained a "key player" who "has a lot of good attributes, but he can get better" - we can probably rewrite these quotes into prose to make them more readable. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:00, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done

The article seems to skip over the team being relegated to League two, making it a bit hard to tell when it happens. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:00, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done

caused opposition goalscorer James Collins to be sent off after he elbowed Smith during a scuffle on the ground - this makes it sound like he's got the credit for getting the other player sent off. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:00, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeah, he pinches and does irritating things like that to wind up opposition players, hence the quote of him being "a nightmare and will annoy you for 90 minutes". So really he did cause Collins to lose his temper and get sent off.--Echetus Xe 22:48, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Review meta comments

I'll begin the review as soon as I can! If you fancy returning the favour, I have a list of nominations for review at WP:GAN and WP:FAC, respectively. I'd be very grateful if you were to complete one of these if you get time. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 21:55, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 11:03, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Nathan Smith as Port Vale captain

... that Nathan Smith (pictured) made 110 consecutive appearances for Port Vale after making his English Football League debut on 6 August 2016? Source: no place for Nathan Smith, the first time in more than two years the 22 year old had missed a game, a run of 110 appearances Appearance data
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ausma Malik

Improved to Good Article status by EchetusXe (talk). Self-nominated at 01:09, 1 November 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Hi EchetusXe, review follows: article promoted to GA on 31 October; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources (AGF on the football databases which I am not familiar with); I didn't pick up any issues with overly close paraphrasing; hook is interesting, mentioned in the article and number of appearances checks out to source cited, AGF on date of debut as the source linked in the article is broken and also that the unbroken run started with the debut as I don't have the knowhow to verify from the databases; image is authors own and appropriately licensed; a QPQ has been carried out. Looks fine to me - Dumelow (talk) 09:54, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]