Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Review/Chess World Cup 2007

Review of Chess World Cup 2007

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Nomination by ChessCreator
This article previously was rated 'A' and it's rating got removed because it never had a review, hence adding it here. ChessCreator (talk) 00:09, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Review by Bubba73: conclusion was "Oppose"

Oppose I do not think this should be an "A" article. First, it covers the technical aspects (pairings, etc) very well and completely. However, there are no key games or positions given. There are no photos. And even if there were games, positions, and photos, there are articles that are about more important events. There are several world championship matches that don't have articles. Bubba73 (talk), 19:21, 4 March 2008 (UTC) There is much good technical stuff, but not much that makes the event interesting. Bubba73 (talk), 20:06, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Review by SyG: conclusion was "Oppose", suggested for GA-class

Oppose to A-class. My first reasons are: The lead is too short and not well organised. For example it mix up important elements (location, date, purpose) and minor/trivia ones (two 17-years-old). Some whole chapters do not have any reference, e.g. the "Background" chapter. Some sentences are too subjective. For example in "Prominent non-participants" it says "All other leading players [...] were eligible to participate", but noone defined which players are leading and which are not. There are no key games mentioned. There are no photos. There is no "Footnotes" section distinct from the "References" section. Some wikilinks work only with redirects. Some wikilinks are superfluous, e.g. the one linking "$" to the wiki article "United States dollar". There are some external links directly in the article, e.g. some ChessBase reports. It is not immediately clear to me why the rounds 5-7 are placed before the rounds 1-4. Is there a Wikipedia Guidelines on this type of formatting ? However, as it is still a well-enough organised article, I would suggest to consider it for GA-class. SyG (talk) 19:41, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Review by Voorlandt: conclusion was "Oppose"
Oppose This is a typical well written class B article, but IMO doesn't qualify for A class. I applaud the large amount of encyclopaedic content, but for A class there should be much more text and definitely a photo. Voorlandt (talk) 20:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Review by ChessCreator: conclusion was "Oppose"
Oppose No photo ChessCreator (talk) 01:42, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Conclusion by SyG: A-class was failed
Close the review Given that: the article has already garnered 4 negative votes, including one from the original nominator, no one has made a positive evaluation, no one is doing changes to the article for now to take into account the critics, I shall close this review and declare the article has failed to pass to A-class. SyG (talk) 21:59, 11 March 2008 (UTC)