Talk:Trent Alexander-Arnold/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Kosack (talk · contribs) 08:17, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take a look at this one, will post review soon. Kosack (talk) 08:17, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Initial review

Early life and career

Ref 8 doesn't seem to be adding anything to the sentence it's placed after and we already have four other refs for a relatively small and uncontroversial sentence.

Ref 8 removed accordingly.

2016–17 season

In the picture caption, his name needs the hyphen between Alexander and Arnold and change u-18 to U18.
Also in the caption, should Arsenal have U18 as well to differentiate between the first and youth team?

I've hyphenated his name and differentiated between senior and 18. I've also linked the teams to their respective reserve & academy pages in the image caption.

"in the fourth round of a 2–1 EFL Cup victory over Tottenham Hotspur.", reads a little oddly. Seems to suggest it was the fourth round of the actual match rather than the competition.

Tweaked wording to read: "... in a 2–1 victory over Tottenham Hotspur in the fourth round of the EFL Cup."

Senior England national team

Unlink friendly, already linked previously in the article.

Done

Personal life

"His maternal grandmother, Dooreen Carling, was once also a girlfriend of former United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, before moving to New York City", is this relevant? I'd say we try to avoid listing who dated who generally for the subject, so his grandmother dating someone who has no real connection to him seems a bit of an odd inclusion.

Relationship flows from soft links to Man United in the previous sentence. I've reworded to read "in a relationship with" rather than "girlfriend of" to make it seem less teenage-y but if you still feel it is irrelevant I don't mind removing it.

The following sentence states he is eligible for the United States by descent but doesn't explain why (grandmother's marriage). I'd include the reason why.

Added that she married in New York, as per the NY Times ref.

References

Ref 12 doesn't seem to mention the Swindon match.

Added ref from Liverpool ECHO

Two of the ESPN refs (13, 20) use ESPN FC as the publisher, while the other (15) uses just ESPN. I can't see any obvious difference between the sites. If they're all the same site, use one style for consistency.

ESPN refs are now consistent.

Is there an alternative ref for 16? Not a deal breaker but the use of the Daily Star as a reliable source makes me slightly uncomfortable.

Removed and replaced with a ref from the official EFL website.

I notice you use the newspaper template for the Guardian, Liverpool Echo, Irish Independent etc but not the Telegraph or Independent. Is there a reason for that?

I think this was just a difference of style from the different users who have edited the page, I have included the template in refs for the Telegraph and Independent.

Most Liverpool website refs use Liverpool F.C. as the publisher but ref 37 uses FC instead, stick to one style for consistency.

Ref 37 amended accordingly.

For Goal.com you use both Goal and Goal.com for the publisher, stick to one style for consistency.

Goal references have been made consistent.

Ref 50 seems to have expired, any chance of retrieving it or finding an alternative?

I've removed ref 50 altogether. The information is suitably contained in ref 49.

Overall, very little to complain about. A highly polished article, mainly just some consistency with ref formatting. Placed on hold for now. Kosack (talk) 19:11, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kosack, thanks very much for the review. I've made a few changes as per your review above and left a point below each recommendation you've made. Give it another read through and let me know if there is anything else which needs tweaking. Thanks, Liam E. Bekker (talk) 07:34, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Liam E. Bekker: Nice work. I have no further concerns over this one, promoting. Kosack (talk) 09:19, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]