Talk:Puerto Rico men's national basketball team/GA1

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 00:40, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

After reviewing this article, I'm noticing a myriad of issues that I'm concerned about:

The WP:LEAD needs to be expanded.
One website is being used for the entire history? That strikes me as a bit odd, especially since I looked at the site and there's not much there.
The format for the history leans it towards being a bit recentist and really stat-based. It's not dangerously so in either case, but it's enough of an issue where the early part should be expanded and the recent part trimmed.
Also, those cites should be at the end of the paragraph rather than in the section.
2005-2008: Please split that into multiple paragraphs. The 1990s and 2005 probably could be in two as well.
The text itself is virtually uncited after the history.
"Known as "The Magnificent Twelve", the Puerto Rico national basketball team has, since then, become a reference for world basketball, being a regular participant in world championship tournaments." Cite needed, plus not sure what you're getting at with 'become a reference'.
"At all, Puerto Rico has participated in 9 Olympics and 11 World Championships (having also already qualified for the 2010 Championship)," in all, you mean?
"Nevertheless, due to its outstanding performance and its successful track record within FIBA Americas, the Puerto Rican team is ranked 10th in the world by the FIBA ranking." Sounds POV unless you can cite.
The bolding of places in prose and the like isn't necessary: this one I fixed myself.
"Coming back from its 13th place debut at the 1960 Olympics in Rome," That's it? Add a bit more detail on that.
"attaining gold at two of the first four FIBA Americas Championships in 1980, and 1989, and at the 1985, 1987 and 1989 CentroBasket tournaments." Probably best to split them into two sentences, confusing as worded.
In general, you seem to throw around modifiers like "they did great" or "they did not do well" in your article much more frequently than should be done in an encyclopedic article.
Ref #6 (daniel santiago) is a deadlink.

As a result of problems with referencing, tone, and structure (the latter isn't a big deal, the other two are), I am going to have to fail this article as a GA. After everything is fixed, the article can be renominated at GAN, though a fresh set of eyes beforehand would do wonders for this article. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 00:40, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]