Talk:Maurício Gugelmin/GA1

GA Reassessment

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This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force in an effort to ensure all listed Good articles continue to meet the Good article criteria. In reviewing the article, I have found there are a number of issues that need to be addressed.

• It is reasonably well written.

  a (prose): b (MoS):

The prose is OK, maybe a 6/10.

• It is factually accurate and verifiable.

  a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

• It is broad in its coverage.

  a (major aspects): b (focused):

Personal life and early life coverage is very poor, as is information on his life post-retirement. This has to be expanded for this article to be at GA standard.

• It follows the neutral point of view policy.

  a (fair representation): b (all significant views):

• It is stable.

  

• It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.

  a (tagged and captioned): b (lack of images does not in itself exclude GA): c (non-free images have fair use rationales):

• Overall:

  a Pass/Fail:

I will check back in no less than seven days. If progress is being made, the article will remain listed as a Good article. Otherwise, it may be delisted (such a decision may be challenged through WP:GAR). If improved after it has been delisted, it may be nominated at WP:GAN again. Feel free to drop a message on my talk page if you have any questions, and many thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this article thus far. Regards--Jackyd101 (talk) 19:19, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Comment

Don't forget that, like many sportsmen, available sources will be heavily biased towards his competitive career, and within his career they are biased towards his F1 and Indycar days. There is likely little more encyclopedic to say about his personal, early or post-racing life. If we've missed a reliable source that provides more detail on these areas, then fair enough, but we can only cover that which is available in reliable sources. 4u1e (talk) 00:40, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

I am aware of that, and now a post-retirement section has been added I am OK to pass this as a GA. However, personal information about sports stars is always an important part of any biographical article and lack of sources will not be an excuse at FA or A-class and as standards rise at GA may not be enough there either in the future. I strongly recommend that strenuous efforts are made to locate more information on these topics.--Jackyd101 (talk) 00:53, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

No-one's making excuses: if the sources don't exist (as opposed to being hard to find) then there is nothing to be done, at FA, A or GA. 4u1e (talk) 01:22, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Passed, good work to the creator of that post-retirement section (although I think there is a problem with your cite web template). --Jackyd101 (talk) 00:57, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. AlexJ (talk) 11:45, 20 December 2008 (UTC)