Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Diego Costa/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) 12:50, 12 March 2015 (UTC) [1].

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Diego Costa

Nominator(s): '''tAD'''

This article is about Diego Costa, a contemporary footballer for Chelsea and Spain. The article recently passed GA status. It has wide content, ranging from his childhood, to his professional career, to praise and criticism of his style of play. '''tAD''' (talk) 20:25, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Listed at FAC on 21 February.[2] And now moved to the correct place in the FAC queue. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:55, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Comments by Cptnono

• Consider expanding the lead just a little. It may not be 100% needed.
• Ref #7 is used extensively in the "Early life" section. I don't see any copyright issues but consider how many times the ref needs to be linked.
• "His first European adventure..." may not be appropriate under "Early career".
  • Done'''tAD''' (talk) 22:46, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
• Wikilinking "relegation" might be useful to those unfamiliar with the sport. "Aggregate" or "tie" wcould also help since the concept is brought up a few times.
  • Done '''tAD''' (talk) 22:46, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
• If possible and if you feel that it would benefit the reader, consider expanding the two single sentence paragraphs in the "Early career" section. This is also noticed later in the article.
• Under "2013-2014", "...he celebrated this a few days later in the first match of the new season, scoring a brace in a 3–1 win at Sevilla." might benefit from a different term.
  • Done '''tAD''' (talk) 22:48, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
• "...Atlético sought to cure this injury for before the upcoming..." The entire line should also be broken up since it is a little long.
  • Done '''tAD''' (talk) 22:50, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
• "Costa scored 8 goals during the Champions League campaign..." I believe "8" should be eight per MoS but could be wrong in this instance.
• "... Chelsea announced on 1 July 2014 that they 'can confirm an agreement has been reached with Atletico Madrid for the transfer of Diego Costa' after they had agreed to meet the £32 million buy-out clause in Costa's contract". Can you rewrite that without the quote. It makes the line unnecessarily clumsy.
  • Done '''tAD''' (talk) 22:51, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
• In regards to the request to change national teams, can you clarify FIFA's decision? It is not entirely clear and I thought (maybe incorrectly) that something like that was usually blocked.
  • Done. There are more complex regulations than the one I've included (for example, Mikel Arteta was not allowed to play for England because he was not a British citizen when he played for Spain Under-16, while Costa never played youth international at all) '''tAD''' (talk) 22:56, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
• Under "Playing style", it is mentioned that he refutes allegations that he deliberately aims to injure opponents. Can you add a line about these allegations?
  • Done '''tAD''' (talk) 23:06, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
• Italics for certain publishers in the references (UEFA, FIFA) are not consistent with some being italicized and others not.
  • I'll come on to this soon. I think such matters come from "edit creep", different editors' modus operandi over the years '''tAD''' (talk)
• I made a couple minor edits related to voice and dashes. Feel free to change the first if you deem it necessary.
• Are "BDFutbol profile" and "Diego Costa at National-Football-Teams.com" common external links in the topic area? No worries if they are.
• Images:
  • Can we use "Costa on loan at Rayo Vallecano..." with CarlosRM marked at the bottom? I could have sworn there was a line about this in the MoS or tutorial. Can't find it, though. If you want to go above and beyond, add some alttext (no longer appears to be a requirment for FAC but help people out)
  • "Costa executing an overhead kick..." and "Costa in action with Atletico..." pinch the text. One of the needs to be moved.
  • "Costa in action with Atletico..." should use the "upright" parameter.
• Multiple deadlinks: http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webchecklinks.py?page=Diego_Costa

Most of the above are minor or meant as suggestions. The image and ref formatting and dead links are my primary concerns. Overall, I expect to support this after you address my comments and with a little cleanup since it jumps out as a fantastic article. I had no idea that the guy was scoring so often.Cptnono (talk) 01:49, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you sir, I will make edits soon. '''tAD''' (talk) 22:42, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Just a note: you seem to have forgotten to list this at WP:FAC! Maralia (talk) 05:33, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

I kind of think it was funny that it was listed at FOOTY and not FAC :P I inserted the template at FAC in the correct place chronologically.Cptnono (talk) 07:43, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm ready for a massive heave-ho of the references very soon. '''tAD''' (talk) 07:16, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

There are still sourcing issues. For verifiability, see WP:NONENG-- en.wiki prefers English-language sources when they are available. As one example, this source could be replaced by this source. All Portuguese and Spanish-language sources should be converted to English-language sources when they are available. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:38, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

• Suggest withdrawal, articles should appear at FAC with sourcing in order, and nominators should be actively engaged-- six days without response. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:22, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

This is unlike TAD from what little I know of him. He has been pretty quick since I started bumping into him a month ago while both improving and reviewing GAs and FAs. @The Almightey Drill: PING! Cptnono (talk) 15:12, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Concur with withdrawal. Sourcing should have been in order before I came here. '''tAD''' (talk) 18:02, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

• Closing note: This candidate has been withdrawn, 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) 12:50, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

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