Talk:Tyrone Garland/GA1

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Reviewer: Jaguar (talk · contribs) 14:02, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

I should have this complete either later today or in the next morning JAGUAR  14:02, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Initial comments

• The lead needs to be expanded slightly and split into two paragraphs in order to comply per WP:LEAD. Not enough is being said to summarise the article

• Y Expanded and split into three paragraphs.

• The Early life and high school section is well written, but it consists of one large paragraph which makes it somewhat uncomfortable for readers. Splitting it into at least two paragraphs would be great

• Y Done.

• " Garland also often slept in the day and stayed awake in the night, leading his peers to call him a vampire" - is this in the reference given?

• Y In the reference, it reads, "'We used to think he was a vampire,' Austin said. 'He'd sleep all day and stay up all night. He wouldn't even like to eat a meal until after midnight. He was nocturnal. Totally nocturnal.'" I changed the wording to match the source more closely.

• "Garland made his career debut with Virginia Tech against the Campbell Fighting Camels, seeing one minute of playing time on the court" - in just one game?

• Y I have added "throughout the game" at the end of the sentence.

• "However, the Hokies easily won the game, 70–60" - this part needs a citation (the first half of this paragraph is looking dry on citations)

• Y Citation has been added.

• "Following the recovery of freshman Marquis Rankin from a torn meniscus, the guard played a total of one minute in three games" - this the guard referring to Garland?

• Y Fixed.

• "Garland opened his stint with La Salle on December 15, 2012 at Bucknell" - what does this mean? Might be worth explaining/linking to unfamiliar readers

• Y This means that he played his first game for La Salle against the Bucknell Bison in Bucknell University's stadium. I have replaced "at Bucknell" with "in a road game against Bucknell."

• "Following his graduation, Garland signed with the sports" - graduation from where?

• Y Fixed.

• "Personal" section should be renamed "Personal life"

• Y Done.

• "but majored in sociology at La Salle University" - La Salle is already linked in this article

• Y Fixed.

References

• No dead links

On hold

This article is very well written and well researched, pure GA material. The only thing standing in the way of this becoming GA are a few organisational issues. The lead needs to be expanded slightly and there are some minor prose issues, but other than that everything checks out fine. Sorry for the delay in reviewing this JAGUAR  17:44, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

I have made several fixes based on the issues you listed above. TempleM (talk) 19:03, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your improvements made, this looks like it's good to go. JAGUAR  21:15, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

How can *this* be considered a featured article when it uses a non-word in the first paragraph (Impactful)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doris mavid (talk • contribs) 07:17, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

@Doris mavid: "Impactful" is by all means a real word in the English language. If you type in the word on Google you are going to find countless reliable sources saying that it is a word. I am not sure why you are going around on many different articles claiming that it isn't a word. TempleM (talk) 14:08, 10 August 2016 (UTC)