Talk:Darrell Clarke

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Darrell Clarke/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: BigDom (talk · contribs) 11:12, 11 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I'll review this. BigDom (talk) 11:12, 11 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

   (1a) Prose is fine as I suspected it would be when I saw who the author was. A couple of very minor points, I think 'Pool should just be written out as Hartlepool, and club nicknames have sometimes been given single quotes, other times double (I don't mind which is used). Also I think "5–0 demolition" is a little too colloquial and "organization" should use British spelling as in the rest of the article.
   (1b) In the second paragraph of the Hartlepool United section, I would consider adding non-breaking spaces before the en-dashes where they are used as punctuation (see WP:MOSDASH) or replacing them with an easier-to-read punctuation.
   All done now, I was bold and fixed the last couple of remaining issues myself.

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):

   (2a) Italicising of publisher names is inconsistently applied. Ref 91 (Training Ground Guru) is showing a template error.
   (2b) Some sentences don't have citations at the end; the claims about Salisbury's severe financial problems, being popular at Mansfield because he was home-grown, attracting interest from different clubs before joining Hartlepool, and being named captain at Salisbury all definitely need one. What makes the following reliable sources: port-vale.buzzsprout.com, sportnetwork.net, nonleaguebets.co.uk (this appears to be dead anyway), trainingground.guru, inbedwithmaradona.com? There are also a couple of references tagged as permanently dead, can these be replaced?
   Excellent job finding new sources, thanks.
   (2d) Copyvio looks fine, I ran it through the tool and the only things that showed up were the direct quotes, which are suitably referenced.

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

   Maybe a touch recent-heavy but overall good. His management section is considerably more detailed than the 18 years of his playing career, which is OK as I think he is more notable as a manager, but sometimes the detail strays into the excessive. For example, I don't think complete lists of recruited players for the 21–22 transfer windows are necessary when this info isn't given for previous seasons - maybe just pick one or two of the key signings. The one-sentence style of play section can probably also be worked into his playing career.
   Looks much better now.

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have non-free use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

   Images seem to have correct licensing and both are captioned. The second photo is quite blurry but I think just about OK for GA, don't think it would make it past an FA reviewer though if you wanted to take the article further in future.

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

   This isn't too far away but there are just a few points above to be addressed. I don't think there's anything too serious though so happy to leave this one open for a while so fixes can be made. Cheers, BigDom (talk) 13:11, 11 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Brilliant, thank you. I believe I have address all of those concerns.--EchetusXe 19:56, 11 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

No problem. Thanks for looking at those so quickly - I'll have another read through in the morning to check I've not missed anything but it looks better already. BigDom (talk) 20:54, 11 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

I had a last read through just now and fixed a couple of things myself that caught my eye (was quicker to just do it than to write them here). I'll promote this now. Congrats, BigDom (talk) 05:33, 12 May 2022 (UTC)Reply