Talk:Team Saxo Bank/GA1

GA Reassessment

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I will be doing a GA Reassessment of this article as part of the GA Sweeps project.

There are several dead links in the article's reference section: 6, 10, 27, and 23. More to come. H1nkles (talk) 15:54, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

The tables appear to be sporadically referenced. I note 3 references under the "Sports Directors" table but only for 2007, what about the previous years? I see 2 references for the "Prominent past staff" table but only for Ivan Basso and Jakob Piil, what about the rest? There are no references for notable wins. Even though there is a link to the Team CSC wins list, there should be an in-line citation and reference in this article. H1nkles (talk) 16:05, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

The 2003-2008 CSC Team section is sparsely referenced, I count two in-line citations with a dead link at the end of the section. This should be better referenced, especially since it covers 6 years of the team's history.

The 2006 sub section is also lacking in-line citations. While there are more than in the previous section, there are several assertions that are unreferenced. I added a template to one paragraph but more could be added. H1nkles (talk) 18:55, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

The 2007 season sub section is not referenced at all.

Overall there are some issues with the references. Also I note that the language is the 2008 sub section should be updated. Finally the team won the 2008 Tour De France and team leader Carlos Sastre won the GC, yet nothing is mentioned in the text of the article, and only an entry in the Notable Wins table tells the reader that this momentous event in team history even ocurred. Since winning the Tour de France is the pinnacle of any team's history I think a section on the race is necessary for comprehensiveness. I will hold the article for a week to allow for fixes. Please contact me on my talk page if you have any questions. H1nkles (talk) 19:08, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for not getting on to this sooner - if you can extend beyond seven days I will try to get onto this in the upcoming days. Seems like most of the problems is in referencing from 2003. Shouldn't be too difficult as loads of links on line for this. I'm not a big fan of the "Prominent past staff" section - seems somewhat pejorative and already covered in the prose so how about cutting this section out? Likewise with the "Sports Directors" section. Severo^TC 21:40, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Sounds good I'll extend the hold until the 28th, I leave on vacation for 2 weeks after that, if you need longer than to the 28th that's fine I just won't be able to finish the review until I return. I'm all for removing "Prominent past staff" for exactly the reason you stated. The biggest hole that I found in the article is that it does not mention the team's 2008 Tour de France win. I think a section on the 2008 Tour would be appropriate. Thanks for taking on the fixes. H1nkles (talk) 15:03, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

I see that work has been done to address my concerns. I still feel that the coverage of the team's success in the 2008 Tour De France is underdeveloped and should be improved. But I think there is enough here to keep as GA. Thank you for the work. H1nkles (talk) 06:17, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

2008 and 2009 are both sparse. I'm working on them but don't find much wiki-time available atm :( Thanks for the review and the comments. Severo^TC 10:56, 29 June 2009 (UTC)