Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Shaun Goater/2
Shaun Goater edit
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- Result: Closing as no consensus. While it may or may not be comprehensive compared to the articles listed by the nominator, it appears to satisfy 3a and addresses the main points. Without further participants, this discussion has went no where in this regard. DragonZero (Talk · Contribs) 07:39, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Considering he has played football for over 20 years, the coverage is brief. Sentences such as "The Goat" (also a city fan) currently has his very own column entitled "Read the Goat" in the official Manchester City program where he talks all things City. read like they are out of a fan magazine or blog. The sections international career and personal life don't have enough info but this isn't a fatal error. There are articles, such as David Bridges and Andre Boucaud, that have small sections but do make up for this because of their highly comprehensive coverage on their football career. This article lacks that coverage. Spiderone 10:27, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
- Comment. Further point: short lead section. One-sentence section "In 2008, Goater left Bermuda Hogges.[27]" and no further updates after that—a spell at the North Village Rams is not mentioned in the article body! The statistic section "International goals" lists far from all his 32 international goals. Geschichte (talk) 19:21, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
As by far the major contributor to this article in terms of both edits and proportion of material, I am disappointed not to have been notified about this. It is only by chance that I have discovered it. This article went through the GA process (gulp) nine years ago. It is fair to say standards have changed since I took it through GA; its probably the case that some articles that went to FAC in that era would be borderline for GA now. The passages objected to above look to be the result of drive-by editing and other such atrophy, and shouldn't take me too long to sort out. Increasing comprehensiveness to modern day GA levels will be more challenging. I barely edit here any more, but I will see what I can find. Personal life and International career will be particularly difficult. Little of Goater's personal life is public knowledge, even his autobiography doesn't have much beyond the basics. Pre-web era information on the Bermudian national team is practically non-existent; the island only has a population of 60,000 and its football team has never achieved anything of note. Nevertheless, I'll see what I can do. Oldelpaso (talk) 12:10, 6 June 2015 (UTC)