Talk:Scotiabank Saddledome/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Mephiston999 (talk) 01:07, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Comments

Lead

•  Done No comma needed in the first sentence.
•  Done A comma is needed before the last and of the second sentence.
• The facility was given its current name in 2000 .....explain why and to what name.
•  Done Ref 1 is dead.

Planning and construction

•  Done builders began construction on the arena ..... builders began construction of the arena
•  Done Time Magazine should be in italic.
•  Done +15 should be changed to Plus 15

History

•  Done Ref needed to prove the 80 million dollar cost in the first sentence.
•  Done with the governments policies ..... with the government's policies
•  Done The Flames insisted the upgrades were necessary for the team to remain viable in the arena and felt it was important that their landlord bring the arena up to the higher standards they felt was required. ..... long sentence with no punctuation.
•  Done The team lobbied city council in the hope it would agree to fund the majority of the $18 million renovation using federal infrastructure funds while rejecting a counter proposal for applying a ticket surcharge to pay the cost ..... long sentence with no punctuation.
•  Done While the team denied media reports it was considering relocating out of Calgary if council did not agree, the Flames' owners threatened to build a new rink elsewhere in the city ..... rephrase to make the sentence more readable.
• Pengrowth Management Ltd. signed a ten-year agreement that gave the facility its current name of Pengrowth Saddledome ..... when was it renamed?

• Already stated in the previous sentence. The Arena was again renamed in 2000 ... when Pengrowth signed the contract.

Future

• Ref 60 is dead.

• Just removed the link. The rest of the cite is complete

Miscellaneous

•  Done City Council or city council ..... please be consistent throughout the whole article.
• The arena was renamed again in 2000 when Canadian Airlines was acquired by Air Canada and ceased operations. Pengrowth Management Ltd. signed a ten-year agreement that gave the facility its current name of Pengrowth Saddledome ..... Please add dates to when the name has changed.

• Already noted above.  ;)

Overall a very good article, just a few issues to address and I shall pass it as a GA. I shall be helping out in the resolution of these issues. Mephiston999 (talk) 18:29, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

I've addressed the remaining issues. Thanks! Resolute 00:28, 3 March 2010 (UTC)