Template:Did you know nominations/Jeff Banister

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:06, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Jeff Banister[edit]

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... that Jeff Banister (pictured) overcame bone cancer in high school and paralysis in college to play in Major League Baseball?

Reviewed: ~~IOU~~ Template:Did you know nominations/Cengiz Aktar
Comment: This is the pre-expansion version, at 2057 bytes of prose. That would mean 10,285 is a full 5x expansion. At the moment, it's at 9,927 characters. I'll try to get those last 300+ characters, but I think this expansion should suffice in case I can't. I just need to stop working on this right now so I can get back to my actual job. The image could work if it's cropped, possibly.

5x expanded by Muboshgu (talk). Self nominated at 16:01, 21 October 2014 (UTC).

I can confirm the article was at 2057 bytes and that the expansion started on October 16. The article is at 10,092 bytes now, still a bit short of 10,285, but I'd support promoting it regardless. So: inline citations are used throughout. I could not detect any bias or WP:BLP problems. The sources look fine. Did a couple of spotchecks for close paraphrasing - no problems found. The article seems to be developed to a high quality otherwise (looks like a GA to me).
The hook is properly formed, interesting, appears in the text, and is backed by inline refs.
The image is properly licensed. It kinda works, a crop could work too - not sure about that, so I'd welcome a second opinion.
So, while I'm on the fence regarding the image, the only thing that's missing is the QPQ review. GregorB (talk) 22:23, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

I totally missed this. Thanks for your review. I've conducted a QPQ review. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:00, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

And I expanded it a little more, so now it's at 10,298! – Muboshgu (talk) 18:16, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Good to go, then. (Sorry for the delay, I have been away for a while.) GregorB (talk) 20:43, 7 November 2014 (UTC)