Talk:James Milner/GA1

GA Reassessment

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The club career part suddenly stops in 2013 and the international career in 2012. It was in good shape when it was GA, now I it does not suit the criteria, because it fails "broad in coverage" and it hence says only about goals and debuts. Tagging the major editors - @Bucs, Chensiyuan, Mattythewhite, and Sir-Nobby:. RRD13 দেবজ্যোতি (talk) 09:36, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

• Comment - Given the number of games he played and goals he scored in 2014-15, it's surprising there isn't any info in the article about him for that season. I might try to improve the article at some point next week but I'm extremely busy sadly so there's no guarantee. Sorry. Spiderone 17:29, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

It's been over a year since this was opened, @Royroydeb: need to reach a conclusion. 92.2.79.212 (talk) 20:25, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Resuming reassessment

Although Royrobdeb has not edited on Wikipedia for four months, this individual reassessment should continue because the article clearly needs significant work to meet the GA criteria.

The most pressing need is for the "citation needed" templates to be dealt with. There are several dozen of them; no article with so much need for inline source citations satisfies the Verifiability criteria. However, based on my discoveries in the Early life section, where five of six of these templates could be safely removed, there are overcitation issues that need to be addressed with regard to these templates; it's very rare that an article needs every single sentence cited, since if an inline citations covers two or more sentences, only the last of these sentences needs an inline citation. In addition, two of the references are bare URLs, do not therefore meet verifiability standards.

I don't know whether the issues regarding broadness/completeness raised by Royroydeb have been addressed in the subsequent 14 months; there does seem to be some new material dealing with events from Fall 2015. However, the article's lead hasn't caught up with that new material; it mentions over 100 appearances with Newcastle United, something not specifically mentioned in the body's text (and there shouldn't generally be things in the lead that aren't also mentioned in the body), and doesn't mention over 200 with Manchester City, which would seem to be a significant tenure.

I plan to allow the standard seven days for the issues to be addressed, though if work is in progress I will naturally extend this time. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:30, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Closing reassessment

There have been no edits to address any of the issues listed here, so I am closing this reassessment as "delisted". If anyone can be found eventually to take care of the severe and serious prevalence of "citation needed" templates, plus make sure the other issues raised have been dealt with, the article can be renominated for GA status. Best of luck going forward. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:32, 27 August 2016 (UTC)