Talk:Paul Lake

Paul Lake was nominated as a Sports and recreation good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (March 16, 2015). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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Sourcing[edit]

I saw that this was at GAN, and I took a quick look at it. The first thing I noticed was that the article seems nearly entirely sourced to his autobiography. To me, that's a very glaring issue source-wise and would prevent it from being a GA. Is it a work that's regarded as neutral and well done despite being an autobiography? Wizardman 01:44, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Paul Lake/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Cloudz679 (talk · contribs) 06:42, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I will take this review on. Note that of the four offered footnotes online, The Independent one is broken. I have reservations that other than 2 Daily Mail and 1 findmypast, the only other references are primary sources, particularly, one source, but I will conduct a full review nonetheless and see whether this article may be passed. C 679 06:42, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry, but I am going to have to quick-fail this one as well. Other than Gary James supporting a single sentence about Lake's youth contract, the only section offering secondary sources is the post-retirement one. This is absolutely against criterion 2 of the Good article criteria. Per WP:RS, "Large blocks of material based purely on primary sources should be avoided." C 679 18:45, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]