Talk:WWE Championship/GA2

GA Review

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Reviewer: SNUGGUMS (talk · contribs) 06:51, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

1. Is it well written?:

Prose quality: Almost. Here are my suggestions:

• "Following his win, Jericho would face Austin and won, thus unifying the WWF and WCW Championships"..... I'd use "following his victory", and the rest needs to be in a consistent tense (i.e. faced and won, unified; face and win; unifying)
• "With that the WWE Championship was renamed" → "The WWE Championship was subsequently renamed"
• "Since August 29, 2011, WWE indirectly ended the brand extension"..... reads awkwardly

Manual of Style compliance: The WP:LEAD is currently too short and doesn't adequately summarize the article. One thing that would help adding some detail on records held. I will look it over again once expanded.

• Update: Looks better, but still could use detail on those who held championship title. Sorry for the delay. Snuggums (talk / edits) 07:19, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

2. Is it verifiable?:

References layout: Nothing of concern

Citations to reliable sources: 411mania is not officially known to be reliable per WP:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Style guide, so I'd try to replace it.

No original research: Add inline citations for the following:

• The entire "Origin" section Now only "Affiliated with the NWA once again, the WWWF was renamed to World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1979, and after conclusively ending its affiliation with the NWA in 1983, the championship became known as the WWF World Heavyweight Championship and later simply as the WWF Championship by the 1990s." is unsourced
• "On September 2, after disputing the brand designation of the Undisputed title, Eric Bischoff announced the creation of the World Heavyweight Championship, spun off from the Undisputed title. Immediately afterward, the Undisputed Championship became known as the WWE Championship."
• "The following year, the title returned to Raw after Triple H was drafted back to the brand during the 2009 WWE Draft, and remained exclusive to the Raw brand since. When Batista won the title from John Cena at Elimination Chamber, it remained exclusive to Raw while Batista was transferred to the Raw roster."
• "At the subsequent SummerSlam pay-per-view, Punk defeated Cena to solidify his claim on the title."
• "Since August 29, 2011, WWE indirectly ended the brand extension as the Raw and SmackDown wrestlers (including the WWE Champion) were allowed to appear on both shows; since then the title was no longer exclusive to any show."
• "The championship featured a large cut-out of the scratch WWE logo (encrusted with diamonds) inside a large irregular heptagonal plate. The word "CHAMPION" appeared underneath the logo in large letters. On each side was a divider bar and a large plate. By default (mainly when the title was vacant), the side plates consisted of a red globe with a WWE logo underneath a crown. The reigning champions all had their logos onto the side plates as a similarity of the name plate feature."
• "The longest reigning champion was Bruno Sammartino who held the title from May 17, 1963, to January 18, 1971, for a total of 2,803 days (7 years, 8 months, and 1 day). Bruno Sammartino also holds the record for longest combined reign at 4,040 days. The shortest reigning champion was André the Giant who officially held the title for 30 seconds. The youngest champion is Brock Lesnar, who won the title at the age of 25. The oldest champion is Vince McMahon, who won it at the age of 54. John Cena holds the record for most reigns with 12. There have been 10 vacancies throughout the title's history."
• "Brock Lesnar is the current champion in his fourth reign. He defeated John Cena at SummerSlam on August 17, 2014 in Los Angeles, California."

3. Is it broad in coverage?:

Major aspects: "Title reunification" seems a bit short compared to the other sections, try to add some more to it.

Focused: Looks good

4. Is it neutral?:

Fair representation without bias: Seems OK

5. Is it stable?

No edit wars, content disputes, etc. There has been lots of vandalism lately, but this does not make articles unstable. I have requested page protection to help stop article disruption.

6. Is it illustrated, by images, if possible and appropriate?:

Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales: I would try to at least find date ranges for File:John Cena 2010.jpeg and File:Buddy Rogers (wrestler).jpg. Try to also fill out the fields reading "n.a." in the FUR's for Buddy Rogers image and File:WWE World Heavyweight Championship.jpg.

Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions: All good

Overall:

Pass or Fail: I'm going to put this on hold for seven days. If the issues are resolved by then, I shall pass the nomination. The seven days have expired and too little progress has been made, so I'm going to fail this nomination. Snuggums (talk / edits) 02:10, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Snuggums I hope you don't mind me intruding on this review, but I'm concerned about this one. Vj, what work was done on this article to prepare it for a GA nomination? Looking through the history I don't see any substantial clean up efforts going back a few months. The article doesn't seem to be up to GA standards, starting with the lead that seems to not cover the entire article. Gloss 01:08, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

I do agree about the lead, Gloss. With regard to recent months, one must remember that this was nominated for GA back in May. I haven't checked the article history that far back, but things very well could have changed between then and January (when the first GAN failed). Feel free to try and work on this article if you'd like. Snuggums (talk / edits) 01:15, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

In the back of my memory, I remember this nominator doing a handful of drive by GA nominations, and most of them were quick failed, but if this was part of that group, it likely slipped by. I'm also not sure why you're suggesting I work on the article when I'm simply expressing my concerns about this nomination. Gloss 01:20, 10 November 2014 (UTC)