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1990 Tour de France

 * Nominator(s): Zwerg Nase (talk) 13:21, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

This article is about the 77th running of the Tour de France. I am hoping that this nomination will attract enough reviewers. Looking forward to your comments! Zwerg Nase (talk) 13:21, 22 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Image review—pass
 * File:Route of the 1990 Tour de France.png needs a source in the image description
 * Added. Zwerg Nase (talk) 12:39, 23 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Images appear to be correctly licensed. buidhe 07:13, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Comments from Harrias
This review looks a bit lonely; I'll take a look through.


 * "Of those 22, 16 teams qualified based on the FICP team rankings, while six teams were given wildcards." Per MOS:NUMNOTES, "Comparable values should be all spelled out or all in figures". So either 22, 16, and 6, or twenty-two, sixteen and six.
 * "Encouraging signs came during the Tour de Suisse, just weeks before the start of the Tour de France, where he finished tenth." This seems a bit journalistic; mostly because of the phrase "encouraging signs"; maybe something blander such as "His form improved during the..."?
 * "A crash on stage 5 of the Giro had forced Fignon to abandon the race he had won in 1989." It would be good to clarify that the crash happened during the 1990 Giro.
 * "..but still troubled.." As this is the first time it is introduced, get rid of "still".
 * "..was the record winner of the points classification.." Does being the "record winner" mean that he had the record for winning it with the most points, or had won it most often, or something else? Make this clear in the article.
 * "..for the next stage. 10 km (6.2 mi) from the finish.." Don't start a sentence with a figure.
 * "..to go. 3 km (1.9 mi) later.." And again.
 * "After the breakaway was cuaght.." Typo.
 * "..from the stage-1 breakaway.." I don't think "stage-1" needs hyphenating here.
 * "He remained second overall however, 17 seconds.." Remove "however".
 * "considered one of the most iconic climbs in cycling." Could you cite this directly please.
 * "..to catch back up. 3 km (1.9 mi) from.." Don't start a sentence with a figure.
 * "It were Bugno and LeMond who were fastest.." Presumable the first "were" should be "was".
 * "..finishing third at 43 seconds." This seems odd phrasing to me.

Real-life intervenees: I've reviewed to the end of the Alps section; could you check the rest of the article for sentence starting with a figure, and also go through checking for noun plus -ing. Harrias talk 15:19, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Coord note
Sorry but we'd really need much more in the way of comprehensive reviews to justify this remaining open after more than five weeks. I'd have hoped to see Harrias' initial comments to have been addressed by now as well. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 12:54, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 12:54, 30 July 2020 (UTC)