Template:Did you know nominations/José Martínez Morote
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The result was: rejected by Thine Antique Pen (talk) 12:13, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
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José Martínez Morote[edit]
- ... that after playing football, athlete José Martínez Morote converted to athletics after a suggestion by his teacher?
Moved to mainspace by LauraHale (talk). Nominated by Thine Antique Pen (talk) at 15:46, 9 July 2013 (UTC).
I am puzzled as to why six different citations are used for a single fourth-place finish at the 2011 IPC World Athletics Championships. One, or maybe two, should be quite sufficient. Also, this sentence sticks out as odd: "He continued to reside in the city of his birth in 2007." This is 2013: if he's still in Albacete at present, say that. If he moved at some point, say that. But for an encyclopedia, saying that he was there in 2007 is not only not helpful, but puts undue emphasis on 2007, when it is in fact only a data point in an unfortunately sparse set of data. I am frankly puzzled by the sourcing for the 2011 World Games: FN24 is dated October 4, and says that the Spanish team won six medals, while FN26 says the team won ten medals and is dated October 3; both are stories credited to Servimedia, and the text is enough identical sections and similar structure that it appears to be two versions of the same story. With that kind of disagreement between sources (the 4x400 relay is one that was either a gold medal, or just a participation in), I think it's a bit dubious to use the information without pointing out the discrepancy between the two reports. Can a confirming story or official site be found with actual final results? I was also wondering: is there any explanation why both of those articles initially list the 4x400 and 4x100 teams as having four members, but later say that all six members of the athletics team participated in the two relay races and received medals for the 4x100 (and one also says for the 4x400)? Normally, in races, it's the people who run the race who win; if the rules are different here such that the non-racing members of the team can win, or something like different members from the team can race in different heats and thus more than four participants are eligible, it might be worth noting that. The 4x100, according to these sources, was a relay team race, not an individual race; this should be made clear. Finally, the article still has a stub tag on it; that should certainly be removed before this can be promoted. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:17, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
- Do you know Spanish or used a good online translator? Just curious. SL93 (talk) 04:22, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
- I used Google translate, which was adequate to what I needed it for, though far from ideal. I can also recognize a few cognates. There have been times in the past when an article text I was checking had phrases that were strikingly similar to Google translate's output from a source, which is of course the very definition of close paraphrasing... BlueMoonset (talk) 04:54, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
There has been nothing done to address the issues here after 12 days, despite notifying the nominator; the only addition has been a new fact at the end of the article that has nothing to do with the any of the above issues. Action is needed in the next day or two. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:14, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
- Note: I will take a look at this shortly; I was in France and without internet access. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 20:57, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
