Talk:The Boat Race 2011/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: NickGibson3900 (talk · contribs) 06:20, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Criteria Number	Criteria	Yes/No	Comment/s
1 a)	The prose is clear and concise, it respects copyright laws, and the spelling and grammar are correct	Yes
1 b)	It complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation	Yes
2 a)	It contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline	Yes
2 b)	It provides in-line citations from reliable sources for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons—science-based articles should follow the scientific citation guidelines	Yes
2 c)	It contains no original research	Yes
3 a)	It addresses the main aspects of the topic	Yes
3 b)	It stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail	Yes
4	It represents viewpoints fairly and without bias, giving due weight to each	Yes
5	It does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute	Yes
6 a)	Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content	Yes
6 b)	Images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions	50%	See point 4 below for why
Overall	Overall Yes/No

Suggestions/Comments from NickGibson3900:

Do you have a ref for the sentence "The first Women's Boat Race took place in 1927, but did not become an annual fixture until the 1960s." If not it should be removed because it could be considered as incorrect because their is no prove.
Yes, it's at the end of the sentence, currently ref 8. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:22, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The section "Race" should be "Races''
Done. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:22, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The sentence "At Hammersmith Bridge, Oxford cox called "2003" to invoke memories of the narrowest margin of victory in the history of the event in the 2003 race." as a few problems. They are:
1. It should be "the Oxford cox"
  Fixed. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:22, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
2. Why did he do this? Was it to encourage his team to keep pushing?
  Expanded. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:22, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have a picture of the 2011 race? Do you need to point out George Nash. Could you say "The Cambridge team in the 2013 race" or something along those lines.
No, no decent picture of 2011. Nash is the only rower with a free-to-use picture, and it isn't clear if that photo was of the Boat Race or just practice, hence the current caption. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:22, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Passing this article, well done!! Another one to the growing list of TBR GAs!!