Talk:William O'Rourke (cricketer)
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- This review is transcluded from Talk:William O'Rourke (cricketer)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Nominator: RoboCric (talk · contribs) 19:19, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Reviewer: Axjuo (talk · contribs) 16:45, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Successful good article nomination
[edit]I am glad to report that this article nomination for good article status has been promoted. This is how the article, as of April 3, 2024, compares against the six good article criteria:
- 1. Well written?: Pass
- 2. Verifiable?: Pass
- 3. Broad in coverage?: Pass
- 4. Neutral point of view?: Pass
- 5. Stable? Pass
- 6. Images?: Fail
If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to have it Good article reassessed. Thank you to all of the editors who worked hard to bring it to this status, and congratulations. MPLS SUD JIT (talk) 20:01, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Successful good article nomination
[edit]I am glad to report that this article nomination for good article status has been promoted. This is how the article, as of April 3, 2024, compares against the six good article criteria:
- 1. Well written?: ✅
- 2. Verifiable?: ✅
- 3. Broad in coverage?: ✅
- 4. Neutral point of view?: ✅
- 5. Stable? ✅
- 6. Images?: ❌
"Personal life" and "Playing style" section description is fine. If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to have it Good article reassessed. Thank you to all of the editors who worked hard to bring it to this status, and congratulations.— Axjuo (talk) 20:12, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Re-written
[edit]I've just rewritten this, mainly for copy editing, a little factual accuracy, and written English style. Partly it avoids some very short sentences and repetitive elements (in particular in respect to the various debuts), partly it's avoiding quite so many colloquialisms and non-standard English. I've also moved the style section to the bottom which is where it would usually be. I've re-used some references and been able to remove the odd CricketArchive one. We could probably find prose sources to replace some of the scorecard ones without too many problems.
I suspect that we could merge the early life and early career sections without losing anything very much as well.
I will admit at this point to being a little surprised that this was elevated with Good Article status with at least one obvious written English error and with a number of obvious other issues - for example, I find no evidence that he is "popularly known" as anything other than Will; one journalist doesn't make something popular at all. Blue Square Thing (talk) 13:00, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
Did you know nomination
[edit]- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Hilst talk 11:15, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- ... that William O'Rourke has the best match-bowling figures by a New Zealander on a Test debut? Source: https://timesofoman.com/article/142062-will-orourke-registers-best-bowling-figures-by-new-zealand-bowler-on-test-debut
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Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.
Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.RoboCric Let's chat 17:35, 11 April 2024 (UTC).
GA status, date close paraphrase check checks out. Nevertheless, I think ALT1 "that cricketer William O'Rourke has best the match-bowling figures by a New Zealander on a Test debut?" could be considered since terms like "match-bowling" or "Test debut" are not universally known terms. Added "a" ahead of "Test debut". --Soman (talk) 10:23, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
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