Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Luka Dončić/archive2

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 Laser brain via FACBot (talk) 13:50, 16 December 2018 [1].

Luka Dončić

Nominator(s): Runningibis (talk) 20:50, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about professional basketball player Luka Dončić of the Dallas Mavericks. In 2017 and 2018 with Real Madrid, he grew into one of the most promising international NBA draft prospects of his generation, being named most valuable player in both the EuroLeague and Liga ACB. The first featured article nomination of this article was mainly struck down because the nominator wasn't a primary contributor. However, I have made numerous more edits to bring this article to stronger FA consideration, enough to become one of this article's main contributors. Runningibis (talk) 20:50, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hoping to post comments today. ceranthor 19:43, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

What makes The Smoking Cuban a reliable source?
Same with Mavs Moneyball?
Same with Eurohopes.com?
Think it would be helpful to get someone familiar with FAC who can vouch for the Serbian and Slovenian language sources. Will try to run through the prose in the next day or two. ceranthor 23:57, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Ceranthor: I have removed the citations to The Smoking Cuban and Mavs Moneyball, which mostly referred to trivial information. Eurohopes is a reliable source in my opinion, with many of its former writers (including its founder) working for NBA, NCAA, and European teams. Runningibis (talk) 20:34, 1 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – I can't speak for the other commenters, but my concerns weren't only about the nominator not being the primary contributor. My other real concern, which no nominator can really address yet, is that Doncic has just began his NBA career and the article will require regular updates that threaten its stability. Are you planning to keep this page updated so any changes don't degrade the article after this review? Giants2008 (Talk) 23:06, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Giants2008: Yes. The fact that his season is starting won't require his page to be updated on a daily basis... only when he has a notable performance. Runningibis (talk) 23:35, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Concerned that the nominator is only a borderline primary contributor, starting on this article recently in July 2018 and inactive on this article—and Wikipedia in general—over the last month. Not a criticism of the editor, as Wikipedia is not compulsory, but neither are FA designations required either. We need some indication that the article is likely to be maintained, especially since Doncic has only started his career in the NBA, generally recognized as the highest level of basketball in the world. I'd have less doubts if he had played more years in the NBA. I would also suggest this article go through a peer review. The first nomination also suggested copy edits to bring the article up to FA quality. Just doing a quick read, I find that the lead is repetitive in mention of "Slovenia", and "Slovenian international" is ambiguous if it's referring to his nationlity or national team involvement. Not only the NBA prose, but his earlier career achievements seems to be predominantly random individual game stats, many without context as to their significance (WP:NOTDIARY). I would expect an FA to have a wider scope than individual games with some analysis of his play over a wider stretch of time (months or even years).—Bagumba (talk) 10:11, 10 December 2018 (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. --Laser brain (talk) 13:50, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.