Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Peer review/2010 Texas Rangers season
2010 Texas Rangers season
[edit]Looking to improve the quality of the article, and get article to a Good articleRed3biggs (talk) 04:27, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
I took a quick gander at the article and made a few tiny changes and one relatively large one. It still needs fairly substantial cleanup (for instance, a number of external links in the article would be better used as inline references) and some reformatting. Additionally, there is an enormous amount of time spent on ownership controversies and the like. My concern with this is that it veers closely to POV at points and, more importantly, if this article is going to be maintained throughout the 2010 season it's going to end up being enormously lengthy with all the additional focus on Tom Hicks' financial troubles. I'll look again in a bit and possibly make more changes when I have another spare set of minutes but aside from these issues it's certainly off to a good start. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 23:12, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
- thanks for the comments. I would say that in previous years, ownership situations would not even be considered a topic for what a professional ball club is going through. However, with this season, for this team, it is a major topic and one that i do believe the time line to be of importance at this point. In the overall story of the team, maybe not so much. The frustrating thing about it leaning too closely into POV is that there are SOO many different voices about the subject and the one solid voice that shoud be out there (Hicks) has turned out to be lying on the subject, so it makes it a touchy topic, and how do you put out there that the team president says the owner lied without it sounding POV'ish?Red3biggs (talk) 06:45, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
As I previously noted on the talk page, the quote that was in the lead but shouldn't be above the title. It makes it too much like a news article and less like and encyclopedia. Maybe there should be some mention of the financial issues and sale of the team in the lead. There is also a problem with the paragraph structure. There is a problem with referencing, you might want to use the {{cite web}} template.
Instead of using numbers, write them out if they are non-comparable and between 1-9. Example from the article would be "Vladimir Guerrero signed a 1 year contract with Texas with a mutual 2nd year option." - change to "Vladimir Guerrero signed a one year contract with Texas with a mutual second year option."
Attribution to quotes should be better. In the case of Ian Kinsler's quote, it should be mentioned that he said it. That is also the case for the other quotes. --Brian Halvorsen (talk) 03:30, 10 February 2010 (UTC)