Talk:Zak Irvin/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Harrias (talk · contribs) 16:35, 13 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Lead
 * "is an American basketball for" Seems to be missing a word, (player)?
 * Not sure I agree that this is ungrammatical.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:19, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Surely he is a "basketball player" not a "basketball"? This might be an ENGVAR thing, but in the UK, the word "basketball" only refers to the sport or the actual ball, not to the participants, who we would call "basketball players". Harrias  talk 21:21, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I see. Fixed.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:28, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * "of the Italian League." The Wikipedia page calls it Lega Basket Serie A, LBA or Serie A PosteMobile, I can't see it called "the Italian League". Maybe say "of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A".
 * Revised.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:21, 13 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Early life
 * Nothing major here; one query though. In the table, "Overall recruiting rankings": what are the two numbers for each, ie. "Scout: 51, 12"
 * 51, 12 (SF) means ranked 51st in the class and 12th among small forwards.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:23, 13 November 2017 (UTC)


 * College
 * "..named him the 2nd best.." Per MOS:NUM switch to "the second best"
 * O.K.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:25, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * "..Michigan played 6 freshman.." Similarly, switch to "six".
 * O.K.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:27, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * "..with 3 assists.." And again. Check the rest of the article for these too, I'll stop mentioning them.
 * "..first career double-double.." and "..his and the team's second double double.." and "..his third double double.." and "..fourth career double-double.." Be consistent over whether you hyphenate this.
 * fixed.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:27, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
 * "..Michigan lost 82–58 to (19/-)[52] SMU.." I know I've asked before, but I don't know what the "(19/-)" bit means, and if you're going to use it, it needs explanation. I suspect the hyphen should be an endash too.
 * I have moved the proper explaination from a subsequent use of this format. It should appear with the first instance of these parentheticals and now does.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:19, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * "The following day in the March 11, 2016 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament quarterfinals upset of No. 1-seeded (#10 AP Poll/#10 Coaches Poll) Indiana, 2013 Indiana Mr. Basketball Irvin scored a team-high 17 points, marking the third time in only three win against a nationally ranked conference foe that he led the team in scoring." For me this sentence tries to do too much. I'd prefer if it could be split. "Win" should also be plural.
 * Split and fixed.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:10, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * "..he was an honorable mention All-Big Ten selection by both the media." This feels like it is meant to say more; if not specify which two media.
 * Fixed.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:30, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
 * "..reached the sweet sixteen round.." If it is officially called "sweet sixteen" then capitalise it; otherwise it isn't encyclopedic language, and needs changing.
 * Fixed.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:35, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
 * "..along with (Bronson Koenig, Malcolm Hill, Marc Loving and Tai Webster)." Either remove the brackets, or put "along with" inside them.
 * Fixed.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:37, 17 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Professional career
 * As in the lead for "Italian League".
 * Fixed.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:45, 17 November 2017 (UTC)


 * References
 * Ref #1 is broken.
 * Archived.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 01:33, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Ref #3 is broken.
 * Rm fact and dead ref.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:06, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Ref #5 is broken.
 * Swapped out ref.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 01:38, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Ref #11 just redirects to the home page.
 * Archived.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 01:49, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Overall nothing major to do; hopefully the referencing is easily solved, and otherwise it's just a few minor copy-edits. Good work. Harrias talk 16:35, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Nice work, all looks good to me now. Harrias  talk 07:07, 21 November 2017 (UTC)