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Andy Murray

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I've listed this article for peer review because it is one of the better articles on tennis. All of the info is near enough sourced and has images. Just wondering whether the article was going in the right direction or not, so want some constructive feedback to make it a better article.

Thanks, KnowIG (talk) 14:51, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Finetooth comments: You may be on the way to creating a model for tennis biographies on Wikipedia, but I see a lot of room for improvement. The article is certainly broad in coverage and well-organized. The lead image is a bit fuzzy; maybe one of the others would be better. More troubling are the many small prose and Manual of Style glitches. I fixed a few in the upper sections and mention a few more below, but a thorough copyedit would be a good idea. You might find a willing copyeditor via WP:GOCE#REQ. Finally, I find the amount of detail in the middle sections overwhelming. This sense of being buried by chronological game-by-game accounts occurs when I read other kinds of sports articles, basketball articles for example, so I am not picking on tennis. I'm wondering, though, if some of the detail could be compressed to cover only the highlights. Perhaps some of the featured articles about other sports could be perused for ideas about how to go about this. You'll find them listed at WP:FA#Sport and recreation biographies.

• To avoid repetition of "Grand Slam", I'd changed the subheads under "Grand Slams" to "Performance timeline" and "Finals".

• Some of the paragraphs such as the third and fourth of "Junior tennis" lack sources. My rule of thumb is to provide a source for every paragraph as well as every set of statistics, every direct quotation, and every unusual claim.

Lead

• Combinations like No. 2 need no-break codes to keep them from being awkwardly separated on computer screens by line-break. WP:NBSP has details.

• "Alex Corretja is Murray's main coach as from July 2010." - Might be better as "Alex Corretja has been Murray's main coach since July 2010."

Dunblane massacre

• "but in his autobiography Hitting Back he says that he attended a youth group run by Hamilton, and that his mother gave him rides in her car." - It's not clear whether this means that Hamilton's mother gave Murry rides or that Murry's mother gave Hamilton rides.

Junior tennis

• Would it be helpful to add a brief explanation (or a link to something) for "challenger" and "future" matches? Do the terms have a specific meaning in tennis? For example, is it somehow better to play in a futures match than a challenger match?

• Should "retired" be linked or explained?

• "Later that year, he won BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year." - To prevent a choppy look and feel, it's best to merge or expand one-sentence orphan paragraphs like this. In this case, I'd just merge it with the preceding paragraph.

2005

• "Murray began 2005 ranked 407 in the world." - Another one-sentence orphan.

• "reaching the semi finals" - Semi-finals and quarter-finals take hyphens. I added a few before this one, but you should fix them throughout the article.

• "his first ATP" - Spell out as well as abbreviate on first use. Ditto for other abbreviations in the article.

• "where he lost in 3 sets" - Numbers smaller than 10 are usually written as words. I changed a few above this, but you should check the entire article. WP:MOSNUM#Numbers as figures or words has details.

• "and local boy" - Would "local player" be better? "Boy" sounds a bit colonial.

2006

• "2006 saw Murray compete on the full circuit... " - The Manual of Style says to avoid starting sentences with digits.

• "Murray won his opening match of '06" - Write the year like this: 2006. Wikipedia doesn't use the shorthand.

Other incidents

• Should "racket abuse" be linked or explained?

References

• Some of the citations are incomplete. Citation 3, for example, lacks the author's name, the date of publication, and the date of most recent access. All are available via the given URL.

• The date formatting in the citations should be consistent.

• Newspaper and magazine names should appear in italics. Citation 41 should be fixed, for example.

Layout

• It's best to avoid creating text sandwiches between images on opposite sides of the page. MOS:IMAGES has details.

• File:Australian Open 2010 Quarterfinals Nadal Vs Murray 3.jpg looks out of the page. When feasible, it's better to position directional images so that they face into the page. File:Andy murray cincy 2008.jpg also faces out. (This one might make a good lead image.)

Other

• The link checker at the top of this review page finds two dead links in the citations.

I hope these suggestions prove helpful. If so, please consider commenting on any other article at WP:PR. Since I don't usually watch the PR archives or make follow-up comments, if my suggestions are unclear, please ping me on my talk page. Finetooth (talk) 19:40, 13 January 2011 (UTC)