Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bernard Hinault/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by Laser brain via FACBot (talk) 17 May 2019 [1].

Bernard Hinault

Nominator(s): Zwerg Nase (talk) 11:02, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about Bernard Hinault, five-time winner of the Tour de France and one of the most prolific athletes in the history of his discipline. The article passed GA last month. Since then, I have added alt texts to the images, but not a whole lot more, since I feel it is very close to FA quality. I am very much looking forward to your comments! Zwerg Nase (talk) 11:02, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sources review

No spotchecks carried out
Links:

The main link in ref 116 is returning a 404 error message, although the archive link goes to the source

@Brianboulton: For me, both links are working, maybe the site was down?

Ref 141: is the link going to the right page? I can't recognise the title in the source

@Brianboulton: You can see the title of the page in grey above the image.

Otherwise, all links to sources are working properly

Formats:

Ref 62: "Eurosport" is the publisher and should not be italicized

Fixed.

Ref 99 shows "roadcyclinguk.com", whereas ref 119 shows "Roadcycling UK". Choose one format.

Fixed.

Quality and reliability: sources appear to meet the FA criteria for quality and reliability. Brianboulton (talk) 19:48, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Brianboulton: Thank you! Zwerg Nase (talk) 08:31, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comments – Read through the first half or so of the article and only have a couple of relatively minor comments below. It's been an enjoyable read so far, and I'll try to look at the rest over the weekend.

~~1978: Grand Tour breakthrough: Minor prose point, but the first "him" in "and offered him to carry him to the finish" doesn't look like it belongs there.~~

Fixed.

~~The last paragraph of this subsection is a shade stubby at one sentence. Perhaps it could be merged into the previous, larger paragraph?~~ Giants2008 (Talk) 21:35, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Giants2008: Done. Zwerg Nase (talk) 11:46, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

~~Riding style and legacy: I'd remove the commas that appear before and after "which excluded riders outside the time limit on each stage", unless a word was excluded from "the rule" beforehand.~~
~~"Hinault was capable of suffering through the training camp and return to winning form within a month." Feels like "return" should be "returning" here.~~ Giants2008 (Talk) 23:32, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Giants2008: Both done. Zwerg Nase (talk) 11:01, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support – All of my comments have been resolved and I'm confident that the article meets FA standards. The writing and sourcing both look to be FA-worthy, and the coverage appears comprehensive for the subject. Giants2008 (Talk) 22:09, 7 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinator comment - This has been open for well over a month without attracting much attention, unfortunately. Therefore, I will be archiving it shortly and it may be re-nominated after the customary two-week waiting period. --Laser brain (talk) 16:06, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. --Laser brain (talk) 16:06, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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