Talk:New York Yankees/GA1

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I only did a skim of the article, but I found several issues already:

Virtually everything between 1901 and 1981 is unreferenced. I count one ref in that whole segment. That's an auto-fail right there.
Any quoted statements need to be sourced. I count many that are not.
The fight and theme song section is unreferenced, as are a couple more sections.
On the plus side, the refs that do exist are well-formatted.

I'd go further, but with all due respect this article has to be adequately sourced before it'll be seriously looked at. That being said, I like the format, and on the surface the prose seems good. IMO that's the hard part. I'm not expecting every sentence to be linked, that would freeze the page. But sentences such as "Their actions, which antagonized Ban Johnson, garnered them the nickname the "Insurrectos"." and "Throughout the summer, Mantle and Maris hit home runs at a fast pace, with the media calling them the "M&M Boys"." have to be cited. Once everything is cited that needs to be, bring it back to GAN and hopefully it'll turn out better. Wizardman 01:19, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The quick fail criteria for a GA-nomination is "The article completely lacks reliable sources", not "The article needs more sources". It was good advice, but I'm not sure it warranted a quick fail. --Sportskido8 (talk) 15:20, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]