Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Steve Zakuani/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) 14:35, 9 January 2015 (UTC) [1].

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Steve Zakuani

Nominator(s): Cptnono (talk) 09:45, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

I believe this article meets all criteria. The prose give a good account of the man. Due diligence has been done to ensure the MoS is met. I would like to add one more image but don't want to go to far. I have also tried to temper my own bias as a fan but appreciate any thoughts to the contrary. More information may become available when his autobiography is released (giving the article a couple extra paragraphs) but it is important to based an article on secondary sources. Looking forward to other thoughts and even ays to improve the article if needed.Cptnono (talk) 09:45, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Oppose and recommend withdrawal. It is a solid GA, but I feel it falls short in two FA criteria at this time:

• 1a (well-written): Many parts of the article read like a press packet or even a hagiography. I think a good deal of copyediting by a neutral party will be needed to tone down the language.
• 1b (comprehensive): The detail is scant in many places. There is more detail in the "Youth and college" section than the "Professional" section, which should be the most thorough by far since it's the reason he's notable. This needs quite a bit more research and fleshing out. One- or two-sentence paragraphs are all over the article. The autobiography should help a bit, but you'll need to go diving into proper sports journalism for a lot of this.
• There are many other misc. problems, including at least one uncited passage ("heart-felt blog post", again, fan-language) and inconsistent citation style in References.

Good start, but too far off at this time. --Laser brain (talk) 12:49, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

• Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close.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) 14:35, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

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