Talk:Steve Coppell/GA1

GA Review

First, the good news. The article passes the criteria for stability, and it has a free-use image so it passes that part too. A reasonable structure is in place. However, on several other criteria the article is not ready for GA yet.

The most important issue is that of referencing. Large swathes of the article are unreferenced, and given that this is a biography of a living person this is particularly important. For instance there is an uncited statement claiming Coppell lied during transfer negotiaions. Any statement which could potentially be challenged by a sceptical reader should be referenced.

Prose and Manual of style compliance: the lead section is too short. For an article of this size it should be at least two paragraphs. Scorelines should use endashes (WP:DASH). Subsections of only one or two sentences are discouraged. One or two sentence paragraphs should be expanded or merged.

Broad in coverage: Important parts of his career are skipped over. As he was at Crystal Palace for many years, more coverage would be expected - his first five years there are covered by three lines. No mention is made of the fact that he was the shortest serving manager in Manchester City's history. His spells at Brentford and Brighton both had sufficient incident to merit further coverage. Oldelpaso (talk) 09:25, 18 September 2008 (UTC)