Talk:Jeff Banister/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Harrias (talk · contribs) 13:15, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

I'll take a look at this one. I don't know much at all about baseball, but I figure it's just cricket with a different shaped bat, right?! Obviously it goes without saying that this article doesn't trigger any of the quick fail criteria. Full review to follow. Harrias ^talk 13:15, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Eh, more or less. If you can understand the usage of baseball terminology, then I've done a good job of writing for the general audience. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:36, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

I'll tell you what, this chap made it to the MLB against all odds didn't he? One injury after another, and yet he persevered! I'm not all the way through yet, but it's looking good, here's what I've got so far:

• Is there any link to explain what a bench coach does?
  • Linked the mention in the lead to Coach (baseball)#Bench coach
• In the final paragraph of the lead, you use "through" three times; the avoid repetition, maybe change one to "until"?
  • Fixes
• "The Rangers hired Banister as their manager before the 2015 season." This needs a more specific time frame: 1982 is before the 2015 season!
  • Changed to "The Rangers hired Banister as their manager during the 2014–15 offseason."
• "Banister suffered a knee injury.." to help the flow, it might be worth writing this as "Subsequently, Banister suffered.." or "Just over a year later, Banister suffered.." (or whatever time frame it is!)
  • How's this?
• "..to his being cut.." This might be grammatically correct in the US, but it doesn't read at all right for a British reader: is there an alternative that can please us both? (I'd prefer him, rather than his personally.) Harrias ^talk 18:37, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
  • Changed to "him"
• Two of the first two sentences of the second paragraph of the Amateur career section start "While.."
  • Fixed.
• "..three of his vertebrae in his neck." The first "his" should be "the".
  • Fixed.
• "Banister was not scheduled to play in that game.." Add "originally".
  • Done
• "Banister played another season for Lee in 1985.." Perhaps change to: "Banister recovered to play another season for Lee in 1985.." ?
  • Changed to "Banister recovered and played..."

That's all to the end of the Amateur career section. Harrias ^talk 18:37, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

• New York-Pennsylvania League should use an endash.
  • Changed to New York–Penn League
• You don't need to link to batting average again for his second season with Harrisburg.
  • No I don't. Removed.
• However, it would be nice to throw a bit more variety in, the professional section seems like a string of "He played for X team in Y league, batting .ZZZ in AA games. I can see you've tried to vary the wording slightly, but unfortunately the repeated sentence structure make it repetitive more than the specific wording.
  • Attempted to revise a few
• Why do you have a managerial record section commented out?
  • I didn't add it. At WP:BASEBALL, we've had a consensus to not include statistics tables like this one. This offseason, an editor proposed including them, and it seems that will be the new way of things going forward. Banister has no managerial record as of now, but I imagine that will be uncommented out (if that's the proper term) and updated throughout the 2015 season.
• "..minor league manager in the Pirates' minor league system." Don't need both "minor league", I'd recommend cutting one.
  • First one cut
• Endash needed for "New York-Pennsylvania" league again.
  • Done
• Successive sentences start "In 2004, he served.." and "In 2008, Banister became.." which makes it seem a bit like a string of bullet points.
  • Indeed. Second one changed.
• If you're going to use AFL for the Arizona Fall League, you should include it after the league's name on first mention: "the Arizona Fall League (AFL)".
  • I thought I had, but it was neglected. Done.

The referencing all looks pretty good, and the only image used looks appropriately licensed. I'll stick this on hold for a while. Harrias ^talk 09:25, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

There are still some point left unaddressed: are you still working on the article, or do you consider it finished, and the remaining points unnecessary? Harrias ^talk 13:50, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Crap sorry. I totally forgot about this. I fixed the low hanging fruit, but left the few that require a little more thought on my part for later, and then promptly forgot to return to it. I'll try to finish it today. If not, this weekend. – Muboshgu (talk) 14:42, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Don't worry, no rush. I'd forgotten about it myself, truth be told. I am watching this page, but feel free to ping me when you're done, in case I miss it. Harrias ^talk 15:18, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

I believe I've now addressed all comments. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:34, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Ideal, all looks good to me now. Nice work. Harrias ^talk 20:20, 9 February 2015 (UTC)