Talk:UEFA Euro 1988 final

UEFA Euro 1988 final has been listed as one of the Sports and recreation good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

UEFA Euro 1988 final is part of the UEFA European Championship finals series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.

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Date	Process	Result
July 27, 2021	Good article nominee	Listed
October 25, 2021	Good topic candidate	Promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 12, 2021.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Marco van Basten's strike in the UEFA Euro 1988 Final was described as "perhaps the most iconic goal in UEFA European Championship history"?

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Did you know nomination

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by The C of E (talk) 15:19, 9 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

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... that Marco van Basten's strike in the UEFA Euro 1988 Final was described as "perhaps the most iconic goal in UEFA European Championship history"?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/John W. White (general)

5x expanded by The Rambling Man (talk). Self-nominated at 15:05, 26 July 2021 (UTC).Reply

Article was promoted to GA status on the day of the nomination, and meets both DYK and GA requirements. No close paraphrasing was detected, the hook is cited inline and is interesting, and a QPQ has been done. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:44, 3 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

GA Review

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

This review is transcluded from Talk:UEFA Euro 1988 Final/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Some Dude From North Carolina (talk · contribs) 23:22, 26 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

"in semi-finals" → "in the semi-finals"
"Vasyl Rats plyaed a one-two" – typo
Add a comma after "in the 83rd minute".
Is "ball pass" (used twice) a typo for "ball past"?
Sources are archived.
Those are my notes. Ping when done. Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 18:02, 27 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): It is factually accurate and verifiable. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): It is broad in its coverage. a (major aspects): b (focused): It follows the neutral point of view policy. Fair representation without bias: It is stable. No edit wars, etc.: It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate. a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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Some Dude From North Carolina thanks, I've addressed your comments. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 18:38, 27 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

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