Talk:2015 Africa Cup of Nations final/GA1

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Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 13:52, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

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• "The game finished..." reiterate "The final finished..."

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• France24 - our article has a space in there.

  Done (and italicised too, along with BBC Sport, CNN etc).  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "Ivory Coast had the game's only shot on target on 12 minutes..." seems odd to go back chronologically...

  Reordered.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "fourth kick" perhaps "fourth penalty kick" and link it.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "Coast the title..." I would include the final penalties score here too.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "of the tournament, ... The tournament" mildly repetitive.

  Reworded a little.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "but CAF" explain/link CAF first time.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "They have previously..." had?

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• 1992 is overlinked.

  Done, and also switched links to the finals, which seems more relevant.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Check it out, we have Group of death.

  Well isn't that lovely.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "Their opening game..." Ghana's opening game...

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Link corner.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Link foul.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Link substitute first time.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "game, Ghana faced Algeria. The game.." game/game, maybe switch one for match?

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "Ghana who scored right" perhaps "took the lead" to avoid repeating "scored/scoring".

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "by BBC Sport as" previous article italicised this.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Link referee.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "Guinea, who had not been able to play any home games" did you mention where this one was played?

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Link sent off.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Keïta is missing his diacritic.

  Sounds painful.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• General: you don't include the location of most of the matches, why not?

  Most of the sources, such as the BBC, didn't seem to mention the locations. I have now located separate sources for each game and added.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "game kicked off" attendance, ref?

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:57, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "the wall" link to the gloss.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Use {{'s}} for The Guardian's...

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Ref 23 says "SMmth," is this a notable Alan Smith by the way?

  I don't think so. I'm pretty sure it's not that guy who used to play for Arsenal, at any rate.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "long balls" maybe "long passes"

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "first booking" link.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "off-ball" don't we normally call these "off-the-ball"?

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Link penalty area.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "goalkeeper Wilfried Kanon," overlinked.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "combined on the right-hand side" I know what you mean but do all our readers?

  Copyedited.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• You link midfielder but I don't think I saw you link defender, goalkeeper, attacker etc.

  Unlinked.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Five "chance" in one para, maybe mix it up a little.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Link cross (in the Ivory Coast route to the final section).

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "penalty shoot-out. In their report of the game, BBC Sport said" both overlinked.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "to step up and" do we need that?

  Removed.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• France24, same as before.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• "Afriyie Acquah was" overlinked.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• That sentence is unreferenced.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:57, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Scorelines in ref titles should be en-dash, not hyphen.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Britannica is a work.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• goal.com can be linked in ref 7.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Why isn't BBC Sport consistently formatted/linked?

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Ref 14 - the -> The

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• Spaced hyphens should be en-dashes.

  Done.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• External link isn't 2015-specific.

  Removed. It's a dead link.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

That's all I have for now. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 13:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

• @The Rambling Man: I think I've looked at all these points now. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 22:57, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

  Nice work, I'm happy to promote. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 12:00, 15 July 2021 (UTC)