Talk:Dimitris Diamantidis/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Wizardman (talk · contribs) 16:09, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

I'll give this a review shortly. Wizardman 16:09, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Unfortunately, this article has a lot of problems right now. That includes the following:

• Only one reference is formatted correctly, the rest will have to be as well.
• Can't use Youtube as a reliable source.
• The WP:LEAD is pretty much what a lead should not be. It's almsot as long as the article itself, and rather than summarizing the rest of the article, is primarily stuff that's not included later on. It's also vastly overreferenced. If you need 25 refs in a lead then you're doing it wrong.
• There's no personal life info outside of his basketball career.
• For all the tone issues and puffery in the lead (see below), there's really not much information on his playing career; its just a bunch of stats with very little meat to go alongside it.
• Conversely, the prose on international career is better (probably the strongest part of the article) but is almost fully unreferenced.
• The tone of the article is essentially a puff piece, clearly written by fans. If sources says he's widely regarded that's one thing and that's fine, but having phrases like "demonstrate the level of his unparalleled success" and "profound impact on a rivalry full of abuse on both sides" if not encyclopedic.

This essentially needs to be rewritten from scratch. You've got some mostly good sources to use, and the meat does appear to be there, it just has to be turned into an encyclopedic article. I am failing this without a hold though, since it needs way too much work right now. Wizardman 16:23, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your valuable feedback. I will make sure the article gets rewritten in a coherent, encyclopedic way. Parisinos (talk) 21:16, 2 October 2016 (UTC)