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GA Review

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Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 20:43, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Going to take on this review. MWright96 (talk) 20:43, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Background

• "a total of 2,399 athletes took part representing 77 National Olympic Committees." - a total of 2,399 representing 77 National Olympic Committees took part.
• "The South African delegation to Salt Lake consisted" - Salt Lake City

Alpine skiing

• "which put him in 51st place out of 53 competitors who finished the race." - contest
• "with the total time of all three legs determining final placement." - determining the final positions.
• "He was faster on his second run," - Heath
• " the gold medal was won by Stephan Eberharter of Austria" - try Austria's Stephan Eberharter for some variety
• "His total time for the event was 1 minute and 56.93 seconds,, which put him in 27th place out of 33 classified finishers;" - how about rewording the text in bold to placed him 27th; for the same reason as above

Neat work overall. Found nothing major in my read-through. MWright96 (talk) 08:08, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks, MWright96, I've fixed everything above. Courcelles (talk) 16:03, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
  • @Courcelles: Okay. Now promoting this article to GA status. MWright96 (talk) 19:19, 14 August 2018 (UTC)