Talk:Rahul Dravid/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Sarastro1 (talk · contribs) 21:16, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

I'm afraid this is a quick-fail, but the article is nowhere near GA standard. To begin with, there is a clean-up banner at the top of the page. Please see here for an explanation of why this meets the quick-fail criteria. There is also a neutrality tag down the page and several citation tags. All of these are sufficient to fail the article.

There are also many sections which are uncited, which contain lots of claims which certainly need verification, such as "Dravid is also one of the two batsmen to score 10,000 runs at a single batting position" and "Only Ajit Agarkar 67 of 21 balls is faster than Dravid" and "Uniquely, each of his five double centuries in Tests was a higher score than his previous double century (200*, 217, 222, 233, 270).".

On a more general level, the standard of prose is extremely poor and the article desperately needs copyediting. There are even issues with spacing between words and punctuation. For an article on a cricketer of this importance and standing, this is frankly appalling.

Finally, the article itself is no-where near comprehensive enough. His entire career (and few have been longer or more productive) is summarised in around 10 paragraphs, several of which are only a couple of lines long. The playing style section is a list of trivial points unrelated to how he plays, and I have no idea what "Praises and Accolades" is doing in here. Really, Dravid deserves far, far better. --Sarastro1 (talk) 21:26, 26 March 2012 (UTC)