Talk:James Taylor (cricketer, born 1990)

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Former good article nomineeJames Taylor (cricketer, born 1990) was a Sports and recreation good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
October 2, 2011Good article nomineeNot listed

Note to GA reviewers[edit]

Joesayers (talk · contribs) was the editor who nominated this article and put in the effort of expanding it to its current state, but due to other commitments is retiring from Wikipedia. He has asked me to deal with the review in his place and I've agreed to do so. Nev1 (talk) 01:09, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Harrias (talk · contribs · count) 16:52, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

1. Well written? Fail Fail: although the prose is reasonable in places, it is of a repititious nature: the first five sentences all begin "Taylor..", as do the first three in the 2009 section. The article has one example of a contraction "Taylor wasn't..", and is simplistic in places, and nonsensical in others.

2. Factually accurate? Pass Pass: The article is well written, using a number of different sources, and references are consistently formatted.

3. Broad in coverage? Unsure Unsure: Excessive detail seems to be given on some of his innings, although given his short career, this is understandable.

4. Neutral point of view? Pass Pass: In general the article manages to maintain a neutral point of view.

5. Article stability? Pass Pass: Though if he starts playing for England regularly, then this could be expected to change.

6. Images?: Pass Pass

Overall On Hold Fail: At the moment the article is not up to Good article quality, but I'll place it on hold for a week and see if anyone is willing to work on it. The content is there, but a fair bit of work will be needed to bring the prose up to standard. Harrias talk 16:52, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review, I'll see what I can do. Nev1 (talk) 16:55, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I've given the article a once over, what do you reckon? I've trimmed some of the detail, so it's now about 350 words shorter, and tried to add a bit of variety to the prose. I can remove more, but I am cautious as this isn't my article, I'm just looking after it. I would imagine that in the long run this level of detail is unsustainable; Taylor will no doubt play more for England and as his career continues it would be preferable to adopt a summary style, highlighting peaks and troughs in performance and generalising. But I'm not sure it's a concern just yet. Nev1 (talk) 22:04, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your work on the article, but looking through it in more detail, I think there is still too much that needs doing: the language remains poor throughout, and a little dry. I'm going to fail it now, but with some work, and I think a peer review, it isn't too far off being renominated. Harrias talk 17:29, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Height[edit]

There are two different heights listed. Which one is correct?


I noticed the differing heights too, the 5'4" figure is apparently from a Sunday Times article which is paywalled, the title of the article "little and large" would suggest it might be biased toward a low figure.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-2320938/James-Taylor-I-loved-taste-big-time--Im-ready-more.html gives 5'6" but says: "officially given height of 5ft 6in seems exaggerated by an inch or two", I saw 5'6" elswhere on the net too. Walworth (talk) 16:36, 25 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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