Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tyrone Garland/archive1


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The article was archived by Laser brain via FACBot (talk) 23:01, 17 August 2015.

Tyrone Garland

 * Nominator(s): TempleM (talk) 14:12, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

This article is about a professional basketball player that closed out high school by posting an exceptional number of points, behind only Maureece Rice and future Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain. He started out college purely as a substitute, but became known as his team's hero only two years later in the 2013 NCAA Tournament. A lot of work has been put into making this article meet the GA criteria, and with some more feedback, it should be able to meet the FA criteria as well. TempleM (talk) 14:12, 16 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Comments from Editorofthewiki
 * "He said, "Just get it over the big man and leave it in God's hands"" --Who said this, Garland or his cousin?
 * Garland's cousin, Bernard Tyler, said that. Changes have been made.
 * "The team went 73–35 in the years that Garland was with them, and he led them to a PPL championship appearance against Imhotep Institute Charter High School, where Bartram lost 48–56. He scored 32 points and 6 three-pointers, but his teammates were only 5-for-37 in their shot attempts." This needs a ref.
 * Ref added
 * "In an earlier 2009 Class AAAA playoff contest vs Pocono Mountain East High School, which is sometimes regarded as one of his best performances, Garland scored all eight points in the last 44 seconds of regulation." Later it says he scored 40 points. This is unclear.
 * I changed the wording. What it meant was that he scored all eight points that were scored in the final 44 seconds of the game. In the entire game (not just the final 44 seconds) he scored 40 points total.
 * "He took a single shot, which was off mark and failed to record any statistics." Going 0-1 is recording statistics. Playing 1 minute is recording statistics.
 * Fixed.
 * "He competed in under 15 minutes of each of Virginia Tech's basketball games until January 2, 2011 against Mount St. Mary's, when head coach Seth Greenberg had him play for 22." This sentence is clunky.
 * Changed wording.
 * Is Garland to join Raptors 905.
 * No, he is not to join Raptors 905. 905 is simply a D-League affiliate of the Toronto Raptors. It has no connections with the Mississauga Power players or coaches. I have added a note.

Overall this is a well-written and comprehensive article, but there are some issues. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs ) ~ 19:12, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I have addressed the issues you stated above. TempleM (talk) 15:09, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Coordinator note: This has failed to attract any support for promotion after more than a month—it will be archived shortly. -- Laser brain  (talk)  23:01, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

-- Laser brain  (talk)  23:01, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
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