Talk:AFL siren controversy/GA1

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Steelkamp (talk · contribs) 15:06, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Review to come soon. Steelkamp (talk) 15:06, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to quickfail this review due to many sections not having citations, thus meaning the article falls significantly short of criterion 2. I recommend against nominating articles that you didn't do much of the writing for. Next time, it you want to nominate an article that was mostly written by others, ask the other authors on the talk page first. They might have ideas of where the article needs improvement. It is very rare that a GA quality article is just sitting around waiting to be nominated and most articles require significant effort from the nominator to bring them up to snuff. Other, more minor issues I noticed were that:

Some of the external links are questionable. Such as http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/sectionindex/0,8031,aflFremantle,00.html, which just leads back to the Herald Sun homepage, and https://web.archive.org/web/20060523010822/http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200605/s1629209.htm, which is just a news article that doesn't really need to be in the external links section.
"The match was played between St Kilda and Fremantle at Aurora Stadium in Launceston, Tasmania." Several parts of this sentence could be linked. Links can be repeated in the body if they appear in the lead.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060302182616/http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2005/04/03/1112489346238.html doesn't back up the preceding paragraph, particularly "The two teams had developed an intense rivalry in recent seasons, with a number of controversial games between the two teams ending in very close margins."
More detail could be given about the match. Why does the match section start midway through the third quarter.
The relevant rules section has no citations at all.
The newspaper references in the similar incidents section could have links to Trove added.

I notice you have not yet had a successful good article nomination. My tip to you is to make sure all the references work (that there are no dead links or links that go to the wrong place) and that all paragraphs have citations.

Steelkamp (talk) 15:28, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks for the suggestions. Hopefully future editors can take on your useful feedback for future tweaking. Electricmaster (talk) 19:38, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]