Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/James Southerton/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 5 January 2025 [1].

James Southerton

Nominator(s): AA (talk) 11:27, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about James Southerton, a 19th–century English cricketer. Southerton began his career as a batsman, but it was as one of the greatest roundarm slow bowlers of the 1870s that he gained his cricketing fame. He would take nearly 1,700 wickets in his first-class career, and played for multiple counties, earning him the nickname the "Man of Many Counties". He would tour Australia with James Lillywhite's team in 1876–77, and played in the very first Test match for England against Australia. At 49 years and 119 days, he remains the oldest Test debutant of all time, a record that is realistically never going to be broken. He was also the first Test cricketer to die, when he died from pleurisy on 16 June 1880. AA (talk) 11:27, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

At the moment I would have to oppose this, as there are unsupported statements (there is some odd phrasing that needs working on). It may be fixable within the FCA, but these are problems that should have been sorted before FAC was opened. - SchroCat (talk) 11:38, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

History6042 comments

There are two CN tags, unfortunately this article will not be able to pass unless these are fixed. History6042😊 (Contact me) 12:50, 5 January 2025 (UTC) "born in Petworth in Sussex" -> "born in Petworth, Sussex" History6042😊 (Contact me) 12:50, 5 January 2025 (UTC) "By occupation a barber, he made his debut" I just don't understand this sentence. If it means he made his debut while employed as a barber, it should be something like "During his employment as a barber, he made his debut". History6042😊 (Contact me) 12:50, 5 January 2025 (UTC) Sorry, but I am going to have to oppose, there are just too many issues that were brought up by SchroCat.[reply]

Withdrawn. Would have hoped for more detailed feedback. AA (talk) 13:05, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Coord note: I'd consider Peer Review to seek more feedback before another run a FAC. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 13:08, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose (talk) 13:09, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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