Wikipedia:Peer review/Jeremy Lin/archive1

Jeremy Lin
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because…i want to know what needs to be improved from this article from someone else perspective.

Thanks, Greg   Heffley   19:06, 6 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I'd un-bold Linsanity in the lead. It's not a nickname.


 * "He is known for his public expression of the Christian faith": I'm not sure the citation backs this up. In fact it says his Christian faith is "less well-known"


 * "They are dual nationals of both Taiwan and the U.S.": "Both" here is redundant.


 * "three days after the Eagles": It's not clear who the Eagles are, but I assume that's Boston. Might clarify this.


 * "Frank Hughes of Sports Illustrated wrote that he talked with the occasional": For clarity's sake, probably best to say "Lin" instead of "he" here. And I think "spoke" is slightly better than "talked"


 * "Lin was a good scorer for himself": remove "for himself"


 * "He scored many offensive fouls": "He committed"


 * "He increased his body weight from 200 pounds (91 kg) to 212 (96)—including 15 pounds (6.8 kg) of muscle": How can he gain 12 pounds overall but put on 15 pounds of muscle?


 * "On January 28, Davis suffered a setback that postponed his Knicks debut": Can we be more specific about what this setback was?


 * "career-highs" doesn't need a hyphen because it isn't being used as a compound adjective here.


 * "After the game, D'Antoni said Lin has a point-guard mentality": "had"


 * "rid[e Lin] like freakin' Secretariat.": I recommend playing it thus: ride Lin "like freakin' Secretariat" (awkward brackets)


 * "I do think (my ethnicity) did affect": "my ethnicity" in brackets.


 * "in honor or Lin" --> "of"

It looks very good to me. I think it meets all the GA criteria, for example. I could only find a few relatively minor issues. You might consider expanding the lead a little bit, maybe to three paragraphs. You also might consider describing Linsanity in the second sentence, since that seems to be relatively important to who he is and what he's known for. Imagine if you were reading this article and had no idea who Lin was. You'd probably be surprised to hear about all the excitement surrounding him when you reached the last part of the second paragraph. Until then, all we know is that he's a pro basketball player who went undrafted out of college. Anyhow, I think you could move Linsanity into the first paragraph, then go on in the second one to describe his early life and college career, and in the third talk about the NBA and perhaps his personal life. I think the problematic way in which the media dealt with his race may be worth at least a passing mention in the lead. I hope this helps.--Batard0 (talk) 20:32, 19 July 2012 (UTC)