Talk:Madison Bumgarner/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Secret (talk · contribs) 21:56, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

I'll be taking this review within the next few days Secret account 21:56, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

I'm failing this article as it's not ready.


 * The nickname is sourced to a fantasy baseball blog. While it's in MLB.com, it seems like the opinion of one person from a borderline source, just remove the nickname.
 * There is a bunch of stubby one to two sentence paragraphs... merge or combine them.
 * Close paraphrasing concerns with citation 27, "He also became the first Giant since Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson in 1905 to not allow a run in his first two career World Series starts.[27]" is pretty much a copy and paste from the source.
 * I really don't see the need of a "further reading" section when the one citation to the book can easily be incorporated to references and it discusses the season in general, not Bumgarner
 * "Youngest left-handed pitcher to throw 8 scoreless innings in a World Series start at 21 years and 91 days" - While interesting, the citation makes it read like original research, remove or find a mainstream source and incorporate it into the article.
 * Citation 17 is dead.
 * Be consistent with numbers under ten per WP:MOS.
 * Citation format is a mess, with some of them missing dates, other are missing author/publisher information, be consistent. Citation 24 for example the publisher is The Associated Press
 * What makes this a reliable source?

I haven't checked the prose closely but the sourcing concerns along with the obvious close paraphrasing concerns makes the article not ready for GA status yet. Secret account 19:17, 11 March 2014 (UTC)