Talk:Grand Slam (PBA)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: PapaJeckloy (talk · contribs) 15:08, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Will review this article, moments later. -PAPAJECKLOY (hearthrob! kiss me! <3) (talk) 15:08, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

1. Well-written: a. the prose is clear and concise, it respects copyright laws, and the spelling and grammar are correct  Done b. it complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation.  Done

2.Verifiable with no original research: a.it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline  Done b.it provides in-line citations from reliable sources for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial  Done c.statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons—science-based articles should follow the scientific citation guidelines  Done d. it contains no original research. Done

3. Broad in its coverage  Done

4. Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without bias, giving due weight to each.  Done

5. Stable: it does not change significantly  Done

6. Illustrated:  Not done The article do not have any photo (Free or non-free), to the nominator please add a non-free file (one) in the article, to illustrate the points in the article, and i also see that you have many free photos of players and instances about Philippine Basketball Association, so you are freely to add a photo in the article, as it's a requirement for GA. -PAPAJECKLOY (hearthrob! kiss me! <3) (talk) 15:26, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

It is clear that the reviewer is not competent to identify issues with the prose, since not a single one was found, which is extraordinary in a GAN article. Even the best writers make typos or omit punctuation. The prose in this article, however, is not clear, and the grammar is not correct; that much is evident in the "1976 Crispa Redmanizers" section:

• The first sentence reads: "In the second season of the league, the Crispa Redmanizers became the first team to win all of the conference championships in a season, they have won the All-Philippine Championship, the third conference of the 1975 season, before they began their quest for the Grand Slam." This is two sentences, this first of which should end after "in a season". For the second sentence, the tense is wrong ("have" should be "had"), and I would remove the final clause, "before they began their quest for the Grand Slam" as unnecessary and tighten the rest. That sentence would now read, "They had won the All-Philippine Championship in the 1975 season."
• A later sentence contains the problematic phrase "with an overall season record of 47-15 win-loss card". The simplest thing to do is to delete "win-loss card"; if it's necessary, then the earlier part of the sentence needs revising.

There are additional prose issues in the rest of the article. Since they need to be identified and fixed for this to achieve the prose standards required for a GA, I would recommend closing the review and putting this back in the queue for a new reviewer. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:01, 1 September 2014 (UTC)