Talk:1903 Tour de France/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 03:34, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Overall this is a good article, though I do have a few concerns:

• Is it l'auto or L'auto? both are used and it should be consistent.

• Good one. It is a name, so it should have a capital, I think. I changed it to L'auto everywhere. --EdgeNavidad (talk) 08:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

• "..increased the total prize money to 20,000 francs," what was the total before?

• The sources I used don't say this. I will look for additional sources. --EdgeNavidad (talk) 08:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

I can not find any information on this...--EdgeNavidad (talk) 17:56, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

• In most cases, numbers one through ten should be written out. I got most of them, this is just for future reference.

• I checked to see if I could find more, but it looks like you got them all.

• I'm fine with the length currently, but FAC might want more beef in the article, particularly in the race details section. Granted it's been over 100 years, there's not going to be that much on it.

• Apart from lists of finishing times, not much more information can be found. Not only because it is over 100 years ago, but also because at that time there was no GPS or mobile phone communication or cars riding along with the cyclists, so all information was captured by journalists along the road. Still there was some information in the sources that I did not add, I added it now.--EdgeNavidad (talk) 17:36, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

• "Thus Hippolyte Aucouturier, who gave up during the first stage, was able to return, and won the second and third stages. Charles Laeser, winner of the fourth stage, had not completed the third stage." I'd prefer citations for those two facts.

• I added the citation that covers both.

• "Jean Fischer had sheltered behind a car, which was illegal." What does this mean? Nothing comes to my own mind hearing the term.

• It should mean that he rode directly behind a car, using the slipstream to go faster. I will try to see if I can reword this. (Later that is, I have to leave now.) --EdgeNavidad (talk) 08:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

• I tried to rephrase it: "Jean Fischer had used a car as pacer, which was illegal"

I would prefer to link "pacer" to an article about pacers in cycling, but that does not exist (yet).--EdgeNavidad (talk) 17:56, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

I'll put this article on hold and will pass it upon everything being fixed. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 03:34, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

All the concerns are addressed/explained, so I'll pass the article as a GA. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 21:26, 8 March 2010 (UTC)