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![]() | Alex Thach is currently a Video games good article nominee. Nominated by Johnson524 at 04:59, 31 July 2024 (UTC) An editor has placed this article on hold to allow improvements to be made to satisfy the good article criteria. Recommendations have been left on the review page, and editors have seven days to address these issues. Improvements made in this period will influence the reviewer's decision whether or not to list the article as a good article. Short description: American Tetris player (born 2008) |
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Did you know nomination
[edit]- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Hey man im josh talk 13:49, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- ... that Classic Tetris World Champion Alex Thach celebrates victories by dumping Parmesan cheese on his head?
- ALT1: ... that Alex Thach had his mom dump Parmesan cheese on his head to celebrate winning the Classic Tetris World Championship? Source: https://tetrisinterest.com/alex-t-wins-the-2024-classic-tetris-world-championship/
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Boundary Fire (2017)
Johnson524 04:51, 31 July 2024 (UTC).
General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems |
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Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation |
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QPQ: Done. |
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GA Review
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Nominator: Johnson524 (talk · contribs) 04:59, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
Reviewer: LunaEclipse (talk · contribs) 23:50, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
Hello! This is my first GA review, so I might do some missteps here and there. Trying to step out my comfort zone to see what works and what doesn't for me. I will start adding comments in a few days. lunaeclipse ⚧ (talk) 23:50, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
- @LunaEclipse: Thank you so much for taking up this review! I hope you at very least find the article an interesting read. Cheers from North Carolina 😁 Johnson524 00:34, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
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Prose & formatting
[edit]- 1a.
- Prose is well-written, and does not have any issues with spelling or grammar. Only issue is that "Summoning Satan" is not title case for some reason.
Done
- Prose is well-written, and does not have any issues with spelling or grammar. Only issue is that "Summoning Satan" is not title case for some reason.
- 1b.
- No MOS issues with the lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and/or lists.
- No MOS issues with the lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and/or lists.
Verifiability
[edit]- 2a.
- No issues with ref formatting.
- 2b.
- Here's where this becomes a bit tricky. You've cited aGameScout's YouTube video on Thach to "stay true to the original source". However, the use of this video violates Wikipedia's guideline on self-published sources: "Never use self-published sources as third-party sources about living people, even if the author is an expert, well-known professional researcher, or writer." The best course of action would be to rather rely on the more reliable sources that reference the video.
- Same thing for maxout.gg. It's community run so that guideline also applies to that website.
Done
- Thatch's videos, however, should be fine per WP:SELFSOURCE as they're not third party sources and contain uncontroversial self descriptions.
- CTM website gets a pass as it's just verifying his positions in the Tetris tournaments Thach participated in.
- Tetris Interest is a fan blog, making it unreliable. Either find another source to replace it or remove the source and its supporting statements altogether.
Done
- I'd recommend using the original GamesRadar source as the Inkl URL leads a mirror page.
Done
- 2c.
- Original research in the part about him mastering rolling, the technique itself, Thach's ethnicity, and the history of hypertapping.
- 2d.
- Earwig returned a 7.4% similarity. Pass.
- Earwig returned a 7.4% similarity. Pass.
Broadness
[edit]- 3a.
- Covers his life, career, and playing style. IMO, I think it's enough to pass.
- 3b.
- Article does not steer off-topic and focuses on Thach specifically. Pass.
Neutrality
[edit]- 4.
- No bias towards any of the parties mentioned in the article, pass.
Stability
[edit]- 5.
- No edit disputes in the last 14 days, pass.
Media
[edit]- 6a.
- All images in the article are freely licensed. Pass.
- 6b.
- Images are used and captioned appropriately. Pass.
@Johnson524: I will put this article on hold for the time being. The article is in good shape, but has some issues with verifiability.lunaeclipse ⚧ (talk) 21:07, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
- I'm not the nominator but tried to remove a bit of YouTube research from the article where possible. However I'm not familiar enough with the topic to do a more comprehensive removal of the YouTube/Maxout.gg sources. The input of the original nominator @Johnson524 would be useful at this point. StewdioMACK (talk) 08:26, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- @LunaEclipse: OK, minus a little more removal of the aGameScout source, all of your listed improvements are complete 🙂 I did ask for clarification on one of the things you said above if you could take a look at that. Sorry for the three day delay, life got really busy for a moment, but I should respond quickly to any new feedback now its the weekend. Thank you for your review and patience, and thank you @StewdioMACK: for helping out a bit too. Cheers! Johnson524 15:58, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
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