Talk:Special Area Games Scheme

Special Area Games Scheme was a Sports and recreation good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 7, 2020	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 14, 2019.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that a tournament in which a goat is awarded as the top prize was used by the selectors of India's Special Area Games Scheme to scout for field hockey players?

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GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Special Area Games Scheme/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: REDMAN 2019 (talk · contribs) 14:08, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take a look at this as soon as possible. REDMAN 2019 (talk) 14:08, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Scheme[edit]

Could some other sources apart from a book be found?

History[edit]

Ref 7 doesn't say anything about long or medium distance running, all it says is that the project trained athletes from the tribe and that "A lot of them started doing well too, winning at national and international levels".
"Tribes of Bihar (now in Jharkhand after the division of Bihar) and Rajasthan, who are accustomed to bowhunting skills, were scouted for talent in modern competitive archery, and fishing communities of coastal Kerala, who are proficient in boating, were scouted for rowing, kayaking and canoeing." This paragraph is completely unreferenced.
Ref 8 appears to refer to a book of some sort, could we get more accessible information about the height program?
"later won Arjuna Award for archery in 1989 and 1991, respectively." Who won it?
Most of this section is supported by one ref (6), additional references are needed to support this for the article to meet GA status.

Criticism, suspension and revival of the scheme[edit]

"After running for six years, the programme was suddenly suspended in 1993." The supporting reference is a promotional article about the project's work. It does not even mention its suspension. Needs a new ref.
"their efforts persuaded the Union Government in 2014 when it allotted ₹11.5 crore (US$1.6 million) for the financial year 2014–15 to implement the programme." Ref 14 is effectively a dead link, ref 12 quotes the figure as being 16.44 crore, instead of the 11.5 that is in the article. This needs rewriting to align with the source.
The sentence immediately below is only sourced by one ref, the ref is unable to be viewed and an alternative is needed.

Disciplines covered[edit]

The only references for this are both mostly dead urls. Additional references are needed. REDMAN 2019 (talk) 14:29, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comments[edit]

I'm afraid I am going to have to quickfail this. The article is quite a way from meeting Wikipedia's good article criteria. Once these issues have been fixed the article will be in better shape, but for now I am failing it. REDMAN 2019 (talk) 15:01, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]