Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Steven Gerrard/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) 31 December 2020 [1].

Steven Gerrard

Nominator(s): REDMAN 2019 (talk) 17:49, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Steven Gerrard is a major footballer and quite possible the best Liverpool player of the 21st century. I have already brought this to GA status and feel that it could pass FA criteria to. I am open to suggestions of improvement to meet the criteria. REDMAN 2019 (talk) 17:49, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't own the books in refs 1 and 5, but apart from that I have access to all the sources. Hope that won't be a problem for any reviewers. Cheers! REDMAN 2019 (talk) 15:28, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

REDMAN, you have limited contributions to this article; please see the WP:FAC instructions. Did you seek clearance from @Saintandy7 and Mattythewhite: before initiating this FAC? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:32, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Drive-by-comments

After reading the lead section, I think it could do with some further refinement. Perhaps make it more neutral (for instance, there's four uses of the word "greatest").
The sentence, "In 2009, Zinedine Zidane and Pelé said that they considered Gerrard to be the best footballer in the world.", doesn't need to be in the lead either.
I couldn't find the source to support this in the article: "Chosen by The Daily Telegraph as Liverpool's greatest ever player"
You mention the The Gerrard Final in the lead, but it's not in the rest of the article
The sentence about retirement could be integrated, eg. "After retiring from from international football in 2014, Gerrard became a coach.."

Thanks, LM150 14:25, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done all of the above.

Image review

There is some sandwiching in the Style of play section

Done

Suggest adding alt text

Any specific images, or just all of them? REDMAN 2019 (talk) 19:06, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

All. Nikkimaria (talk) 21:15, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done. REDMAN 2019 (talk) 14:45, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Don't use fixed px size. Nikkimaria (talk) 20:59, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done, except for two instances where it is necessary. REDMAN 2019 (talk) 19:04, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It isn't necessary in those cases - you can use |upright= instead. Nikkimaria (talk) 21:15, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done. REDMAN 2019 (talk) 14:14, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@LM150 and Nikkimaria: Thanks for your comments. I have addressed them or replied. Any further comments or corrections would be welcome. (Sorry for my delay in answering, I have had a busy week.) REDMAN 2019 (talk) 19:08, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please read the FAC instructions and remove the “Done” templates; they cause a template limits problem that affects the entire page, as well as the FAC archives. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:51, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks for the tip. REDMAN 2019 (talk) 14:12, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Coord note

Hi, with little commentary after three weeks, and none in the past ten days, I don't think this nom is going anywhere fast so I'll be archiving it shortly. Given that lack of commentary I'm prepared to waive the usual two weeks before a re-nom if you so choose to do that but per FAC instructions I'd recommend trying Peer Review first. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 05:02, 31 December 2020 (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) 05:03, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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