Talk:Will Rogers (American football)

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Review: May 18, 2023. (Reviewed version).

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GA Review

Latest comment: 1 year ago6 comments2 people in discussion

Passed. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 16:27, 18 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

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Reviewer: Gonzo fan2007 (talk · contribs) 14:40, 16 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

I'll take this one. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 14:40, 16 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

General

MOS:DASH, go through and update all the hyphens to en dashes.
- Done

Lead

Expand lead to include info about high school career.
- Done
MOS:CITELEAD, no need for the inline citation in the lead.
- Done

Early life and high school career

Rogers was born on August 19, 2001 in Louisville, Mississippi., comma after "2001"
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I would spell out the whole link Brandon, Mississippi, since "Brandon" is typically a first name.
Done
A strong athlete, he played a variety of sports growing up, including baseball and soccer but was the most passionate about football, where in elementary school he ran drills with his fathers high school players., I would split into two sentences. ...and soccer. However, he was the most...
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fathers high school players., "fathers" should be "father's"
- Done
MOS:ACRO1STUSE, spell out NFL in it's first use
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under his father who served as the teams offensive coordinator, "teams" should be "team's"
- Done

College career

for the seasons first game., "seasons" should be "season's"
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...replacing a struggling Costello. Rogers struggled in his debut, throwing two interceptions., repetitive use of "struggle" sounds weird
- Changed word
...have a historic performance on the road against Auburn., the hidden linking of "road" isn't necessary
- Removed
Two weeks later he had his highest passer rating of the season, posting a 194.0 rating in a blowout win over East Tennessee State., the duplication of "rating" sounds weird, maybe try to rewrite a bit?
- Rewrote sentence
coach Mike Leach unexpectedly passed away after suffering a heart attack, delete "unexpectedly" and replace "passed away" with "died" MOS:EUPHEMISM
- Done

Images

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References

Need consistency with date formatting, i.e. 2023-04-02 vs April 2, 2023. Pick one and stick with it throughout.
Done
Ref 9: MOS:ALLCAPS, convert the title to normal case
Done
Be consistent with the website field, either use .com or not across all of them (i.e. Yahoo vs Yahoo.com)
- Done
Ref 34: the website should just be "WRUF.com" or "WRUF"
Done
Ref 10: where does it say he is the 24th best pro-style QB of his class?
- Fixed
All other refs look good, spot checks seemed good.

Nice work. Putting on hold. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 14:40, 16 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Gonzo fan2007 I believe that I have fixed everything. Newtothisedit (talk) 16:17, 18 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Looks good, passing! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 16:27, 18 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

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