Talk:Early history of American football/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Phlsph7 (talk · contribs) 07:22, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'll review this one. I hope to have my first comments ready soon. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:22, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, this is a quick fail: there are just too many unreferenced paragraphs, see WP:QF. I've recently added various "citation needed" tags to the article to highlight this problem. They should all be addressed before a renomination.

Some additional points that caught my eye:

The article is very long: by my count, about 105 kB of pure text. That's a strong indication that the article contains too many details, see WP:TOOBIG and WP:SUMMARY. It might be a good idea to summarize more and move the details to more specific articles.
The article contains various duplicate links ( e.g. Native Americans, Parke H. Davis, The Football Association, Columbia University, Rugby Football Union) that should be removed, see MOS:DUPLINK
WP:EARWIG shows one potential copyright violation (https://www.vintag.es/2018/03/american-football-players.html), though it's probably them who copied from us.
neighbouring: change to American spelling "neighboring"
Schaff himself was injured and unable to the play the game: remove "the" before "play"
Rutgers was first to extend the reach of the game.: add "the" before "first"

Phlsph7 (talk) 08:49, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]