Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Joe Johnson (snooker player)/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by Gog the Mild via FACBot (talk) 25 August 2024 [1].

Joe Johnson (snooker player)

Nominator(s): BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 00:23, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about the unlikely winner of the 1986 World Snooker Championship, who was known for his carefree attacking play and his shoes. After a largely unsuccessful year as champion, he reached the final again in 1987. He did win further, lesser, titles as a professional and retired in 2005. A survivor of seven heart attacks, he is still playing on the seniors snooker circuit. Thanks in advance for your improvement suggestions. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 00:23, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Due to lack of participation so far, I'm pinging HurricaneHiggins, Rodney Baggins, Amakuru, Sammi Brie and SchroCat (as contributors to Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/John Pulman/archive1) to see if they would like to comments here. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 12:33, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@FAC coordinators: the article is further from meeting the FA criteria than I had expected. I'd like to withdraw the nomination - what do I need to do, please? Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 12:14, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

Is no image of the subject available? Nikkimaria (talk) 05:11, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nikkimaria I've searched, but not found any free images. I don't think there is any argument for a fair use image. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 10:37, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Rodney Baggins

I've just started looking at this article and will carry out a thorough review over next few days. For now, I'd just like to point out the following:

I've added a [fv] tag in the Other activities section which needs attention.
I notice that three of the section headings have {{anchor}} templates against them. Is that intentional and what's the reason? Surely incoming links should just point directly at the section heading and no invisible anchors are required.
The citations all look good, apart from the duplicated ESPN source (refs. 1 & 33, "Joe Johnson: The man who stunned the Crucible"). I understand this is probably unavoidable because ref.1 is inside the nickname file, BUT the link is dead so it needs tagging with url-status=dead in said file.
I don't think it's necessary to link ALL the work params, e.g. every Snooker Scene citation has its magazine param linked (magazine=Snooker Scene), which looks a bit odd considering that the articles themselves are not linked – maybe just link the first one?

More later. Rodney Baggins (talk) 11:25, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn as requested. The usual two-week hiatus will apply. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:30, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been withdrawn, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:29, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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