Talk:Walter Wu

Good article status removed
This article was promoted to GA yesterday. I have undone this promotion, as it doesn't meet the GA standards at all. It has blatant errors (the infobox lists a gold medal he never won, and couldn't have won as it is not an Olympic distance), bad writing, making conclusions from anecdotes ("Since retiring from competition in 2004,[3] Wu began to give speeches at local schools and events." is sourced to one speech he gave at a local school in 2013: no evidence that this is a reglar occurrence, and no evidence either that this is something he only started doing after retiring; they are two completely unrelated facts as far as the current sourcing is concerned, lumped together without good reason). So, he has given one speech, and carried the Olympic Torch for a few hundred meters: he surely has done something else during the past ten years, I hope?

It has no attention whatsoever for his personal life (see e.g. ), nor for anything he did in his sporting career apart from the Paralympics. the man held at least 5 world records (and still holds at least 2) in his category, which you can learn elsewhere on an outdated page on Wikipedia, but not in his own article. He won multiple medals at the World Championships. This article clearly fails criteria 1 and 3 of the 6 GA criteria, and should never have been promoted (or nominated). Fram (talk) 09:23, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the feedback and source. It could really help this article a lot. The last part was a little harsh. Never nominating it again? I will try to edit it so that it meets the standards, have someone peer review it, copy edit it and then nominate it for GAC again. As far as I'm concerned, there's no policy about protecting a page from being nominated for GAC. Thanks,   ΤheQ Editor   Talk? 11:50, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
 * "It should never have been nominated" is obviously not the same as "it should never be nominated". Fram (talk) 12:07, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
 * My bad.  ΤheQ Editor   Talk? 21:27, 31 October 2014 (UTC)