Talk:2001 Marlboro 500

2001 Marlboro 500 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.
Review: November 24, 2016. (Reviewed version).

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Did you know... that the 2001 Marlboro 500 saw a record-breaking 73 lead changes in a Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) race?

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GA Review

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Reviewer: Jaguar (talk · contribs) 18:31, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I will be reviewing this against the GA criteria as part of a GAN sweep. I'll leave some comments soon. JAGUAR 18:31, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguations: none found.

Linkrot: none found.

Checking against GA criteria

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
Well written, complies with key MoS elements.
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
Well referenced to reliable sources, no evidence of OR. Spotchecks show that online sources support statements, assumme good faith for off-line sources.
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
Excellent coverage.
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
NPOV
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
Stable
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):
Suitable images, licensed and captioned.
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

A pleasure to review this excellent article. It meets the GA criteria outright, so I'll list it now. Well done! JAGUAR 18:52, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Basic copyedit

Thanks for the request, well done! Finished the ce. MasterSloper516 (talk) 22:59, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]