Talk:Daria Kasatkina

Daria Kasatkina 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: January 11, 2019. (Reviewed version).

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Daria Kasatkina article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

Biography: Sports and Games

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	Sports portal This article is supported by the sports and games work group (assessed as Low-importance).

LGBTQ+ studies: Person

	LGBTQ portal This article is of interest to WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies, which tries to ensure comprehensive and factual coverage of all LGBTQ-related issues on Wikipedia. For more information, or to get involved, please visit the project page or contribute to the discussion.LGBTQ+ studiesWikipedia:WikiProject LGBTQ+ studiesTemplate:WikiProject LGBTQ+ studiesLGBTQ+ studies articles
	This article is supported by the LGBTQ+ Person task force.

Olympics Low‑importance

	Olympic Games portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Olympics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Olympics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.OlympicsWikipedia:WikiProject OlympicsTemplate:WikiProject OlympicsOlympics articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Russia: Sports & games Low‑importance

	Russia portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Russia, a WikiProject dedicated to coverage of Russia on Wikipedia. To participate: Feel free to edit the article attached to this page, join up at the project page, or contribute to the project discussion.RussiaWikipedia:WikiProject RussiaTemplate:WikiProject RussiaRussia articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the sports and games in Russia task force.

Tennis Mid‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Tennis, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles that relate to tennis on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.TennisWikipedia:WikiProject TennisTemplate:WikiProject Tennistennis articles

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Tennis To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Cleanup : Take an item off the Cleanup listing
Copyedit : Roger Federer, Leander Paes, Rafael Nadal, Justine Henin – to be used as examples for ideal page structures
Expand : Grab a Start article and expand it, or peruse the List of articles.
Photo : Add photos to Tennis or Tennis people articles
Stubs : Bring a Stub up to our standards.
Other : *Sign up as a member of the project.
Tag more articles with our standard project template.
Help with the creation of yearly main articles and drawsheets for every Open Era ATP and WTA tournament.

Women's sport: Tennis Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women's sport (and women in sports), a WikiProject which aims to improve coverage of women in sports on Wikipedia. For more information, visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.Women's sportWikipedia:WikiProject Women's sportTemplate:WikiProject Women's sportWomen's sport articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the Women's tennis task force (assessed as Mid-importance).

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Daria Kasatkina/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 21:17, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have a look at this tennis player's article as well. MWright96 (talk) 21:17, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

Lead

"She cracked the top 10 of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA)" - entered
- Changed to "She made her top 10 debut" Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:58, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Early life and background

"located about 1000 km southeast of Moscow." - use the {{convert}} template to cater for readers in countries that use miles to measure in distance
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:58, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"Daria also has an older brother named Alexandr." - should be Kasatkina
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:58, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Junior career

"Kasatkina was ranked as high as No. 3" - use the template to No.
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:58, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Wikilink ITF Junior Circuit
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:15, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Wikilink the first mention of United States to United States Fed Cup team
- The senior team is different from the junior team, which doesn't have an article. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:15, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"she defeated top-seeded Ivana Jorovic in the final," - the top-seed
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:15, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"They finished runner-up to" - runners-up
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:15, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2013–15: Grand Slam debut, WTA doubles title

"Kasatkina began her professional career with a wild card to compete in qualifying at the 2013 Kremlin Cup." - try Kasatkina began her professional career as a wild card qualifying entrant at the 2013 Kremlin Cup.
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:20, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Wikilink wild card to Wild card (sports)
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:20, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Aleksandra Krunic needs an acute accent with the c
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:20, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"Before the end of the year, Kasatkina then won" - don't need "then" for this piece of text
- Removed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:20, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"in each of singles and doubles." - in each of the singles and doubles events.
- Changed to "Kasatkina won her biggest titles of her career to date in both singles and doubles." Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:20, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"She was the champion of the ITF $50K singles event at the L'Open Emeraude Solaire de Saint-Malo." - how about She was the L'Open Emeraude Solaire de Saint-Malo ITF $50K singles event champion.
- Changed to "In September, she won the L'Open Emeraude Solaire de Saint-Malo ITF $50K singles event." Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:20, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2016: First top ten victory, top 25

"Kasatkina then made her debut at the Australian Open" - try Australian Open debut
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:25, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"the longest streak on the WTA Tour since 1990." - change the word in bold to stretch for the avoidance close reptition of "streak"
- "Stretch" usually refers to a time streak. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:25, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Also, wikilink 1990 to 1990 WTA Tour
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:25, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"Kasatkina continued her success at big tournaments" - major
- "Major" means "Grand Slam" in tennis. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:25, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"Kasatkina's last big singles result of the season" - same as above
- Same. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:25, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"Kasatkina ended the season at No. 27 in the world." - the world ranking of No. 27.
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk)

2017: First WTA singles title, Kremlin Cup runner-up

"Kasatkina had a much better clay court season on the strength of her first last tournaments" - an improved clay court season on the strgeth of her previous tournaments
- Changed to "After struggling on hard courts, Kasatkina had a better clay court season on the strength of her first and last tournaments on the surface." (cut "much" and added a missing "and", which was a typo) Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:27, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2018: Indian Wells final, Kremlin Cup title, Russian No. 1, top 10

"She also had another big result" - major
- Same as above. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:33, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"She defeated No. 2 Wozniacki for the third time this year" - in 2018
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:33, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"she also cracked the top 10" - entered
- Changed to "she also made her top 10 debut". Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:33, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"in a match where she had to play on short rest" - short amount of rest?
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:33, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Wikilink tiebreak to Tiebreaker for non-Tennis readers
- This tiebreak criteria is different. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:33, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2019

"Kasatkina started new season in Brisbane," - started the new season
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:33, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

National representation

"Kasatkina did not participate in Fed Cup" - in the Fed Cup
- "in Fed Cup" is the correct expression. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:34, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Playing style

Wikilink topspin, backhand, forehand, drop shots and groundstrokes to their respective articles for non-Tennis readers
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:35, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Coaches

"When Kasatkina was eleven years old, she began being coached by Maxim Prasolov." - Maxim Prasolov began coaching her.
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:36, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"citing her preference to train away from a big city," - large
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:36, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"He added that "I insist on" - a comma is missing between "that" and "I"
- Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:36, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Personal life

"Kasatkina's favorite tennis player" - shouldn't that be favourite as it has been written earlier in the article?
- Yes. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:37, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"She prefers to watch men's tennis." - any reasons as to why that is the case?
- Added reasons. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:37, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Awards and nominations

The WTA Breakthrough of the Month awards and nominations need to have a reliable source(s) added to it
- I had meant to cut this section since the awards are not that notable. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:29, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

References 45 is missing the language that the source is written in
- Added. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:42, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
References 63, 66 and 71 are missing the publishers of their respective works
- Added. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:42, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Reference 84 is missing the date it was accessed
- Added. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:42, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's all I have from my read-through. Will put the review on hold for the time being. MWright96 (talk) 12:00, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@MWright96: Thanks for another review! I addressed all of the points above. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:44, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Sportsfan77777: Am satisfied with the changes made. Now promoting to GA class. MWright96 (talk) 13:48, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]