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2009 Little League World Series
This peer review discussion has been closed. I know the article is in bad shape but I want to know what should be done to get it to GA.

Thanks, Spongie555 (talk) 03:52, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Ruhrfisch comments: Thanks for your interest in improving this article. Agree it needs a lot of work, here are some suggestions for improvement with an eye to WP:GAN.
 * The biggest problem the article has right now is a lack of references. In its current state it would be a quick fail at GAN.
 * My rule of thumb is that every quote, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref.
 * Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. cite web and other cite templates may be helpful. See WP:CITE and WP:V
 * The few references that are in the article are all from Little League itself. Since the World Series is covered in many newspapers and magazines, it should not be hard to find many more Reliable sources to used - searching on Google finds lots of potential sources
 * The lead needs to be expanded so that it is an accessible and inviting overview of the whole article. Nothing important should be in the lead only - since it is a summary, it should all be repeated in the body of the article itself
 * My rule of thumb is to include every header in the lead in some way - please see WP:LEAD
 * There are several images of the facilities on Commons. Here is a picture of File:Little League Volunteer Stadium 2.jpg and here is one of File:Little League World Series and Lamade Stadium.JPG. There are others on Commons here
 * The article is mostly stats - who played who and when and what was the score. I would add background to provide context for the reader and add text to explain the tables. For example, why did CHula Vista play Torrance three times in the South California Divisional?
 * The dab finder finds three disambiguation links that need to be fixed (see toolbox on this page)
 * Italic text does not follow WP:ITALIC
 * A model article is useful for ideas and exmaples to follow. There are 2 FAs on World Series 1926 World Series and 2004 World Series that may be useful as models.
 * Please make sure that the existing text includes no copyright violations, plagiarism, or close paraphrasing. For more information on this please see Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches. (This is a general warning given in all peer reviews, in view of previous problems that have risen over copyvios.)

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch peer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours, Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 03:52, 2 February 2011 (UTC)