Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Kirk Hinrich/1

Kirk Hinrich

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 * Result: Delist Consensus here is that the article no longer meets the Good article requirements AIR corn (talk) 04:42, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

This article is probably a speedy candidate for delisting, but I'm kinda confused about delisting myself. This article has so many issues.


 * There's alot of quotes, which is given some undue weight, some of them is even unsourced.
 * Many dead links
 * Some tone issues "playoffs in a thrilling seven-game series". "Despite the US effort, the Greek sealed the deal with free throws and won 101–95" Sealed the deal? Really that's confusing sports slang.
 * The article doesn't really had a decent upgrade after the 2006-07 season, with every subsection about two sentences.
 * Nothing on his style of play and so forth so it's not comprehensive.
 * More to come in an hour or two, but this isn't close to even B class.

Secret account 00:20, 2 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Individual reassessments are quite easy, just conduct a review against the WP:GACR, notify editors and Wikiprojects that might be interested and wait for responses. It can always be brought back here if there are disagreements. Articles tend to languish here for weeks so that is probably the easiest way to deal with an article you think is an uncontroversial delist. I can help out if required. AIR corn (talk) 02:04, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

To continue, more issues I found in the article is.


 * Some incomplete sentences "It was in the third game of the series that the Heat's James Posey shoulder tackled Hinrich, as he ran the fastbreak." And what?
 * Source vertification issues. Here's one example "Hinrich suffered an acute viral infection shortly before the beginning of his first season, requiring months to fully recover.[13]" Five games isn't months, source doesn't mention the time, plus the next sentence is unsourced commentary "showing a continued good grasp of fundamental skills, solid playmaking, leadership, and a surprising defensive intensity"
 * "Hinrich is known for his intense on-court demeanor" seems misplaced in the 04-05 subsection, unsourced.
 * "possible start of a rivalry was born" inaccurate, unsourced comment that fails WP:NPOV.
 * I just fixed an very obvious typo of "category". While I can't really comment on grammar issues considering that I'm slightly dylexcic, with simple errors like that, an good copy-editing is needed.
 * Citation formatting is a mess.

I stopped right there, I see more errors and tone issues, but it will get kinda lengthy. I'll mention it if anyone is willing to work on the article. Currently this is a huge mess, and most of the article needs to be rewritten. I already created an reassesment page, so I guess I'll leave it alone. There's a few other athlete articles I don't think they should be GAs so I'll do a talk page listing.

Secret account 04:40, 2 March 2012 (UTC)


 * No problem. Can you let the relevant Wikiproject and editors know about this (including the GA reviewer) if you haven't already. AIR corn (talk) 04:44, 2 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I was in the process of doing that. Nominator, and original GA reviewer inactive, relevant Wikiproject notified. Looking at the history, I don't think it should have passed the original reassessment, there was plagiarism problems (which were fixed) and so forth, what a mess. Secret account 05:04, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Note: I only just noticed but there was no GAR link added to the articles talk page (added now). It will probably not affect this nomination too much, but should probably be take into account by the closer. AIR corn (talk) 08:17, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

It been six weeks and none of the concerns were fixed, only very minor edits/vandalism reverts. Can I delist it? Thanks Secret account 23:55, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Technically no. But I can. Will do so in the next few days if nobody beats me to it. AIR corn (talk) 13:29, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I say go for it, Aircom. Go Phightins! (talk)