Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Didier Drogba/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was not promoted by Ian Rose (talk) 14:55, 9 August 2014 (diff).

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Didier Drogba

Nominator(s): Davykamanzi → talk • contribs • alter ego 18:51, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

This article is about an Ivorian professional footballer who is at the moment a free agent. He is best known for his career at English Premier League club Chelsea where he won three league titles, four domestic titles and the UEFA Champions League in 2011–12. He is the club's fourth highest scorer of all time, and his country's all-time top goalscorer.

I believe this article should be featured because it provides very detailed information on his entire career, especially at Chelsea and his career with the Ivory Coast national team. His personal life is also well documented. Content is well-referenced and concise, and as of this revision I did not find any disambiguation links. I think this well deserves to be a featured article. Davykamanzi → talk • contribs • alter ego 18:51, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Oppose. The article requires significant work to become featured. I would suggest putting it through peer review first.

• The article is lacking information in some places, and over-detailed in others. Drogba may have been a late developer, but the sections on his earlier career are lacking. For instance, his season at Marseille resulted in a £3 million player becoming a £24 million player in the space of a year. This period just two sentences. Irrelevancies such as his shirt number at Chelsea get more than this.
• Several parts of the article contain informal language lacking in neutrality, for example "He scored his seventh Wembley goal in fantastic style against London rivals Tottenham on 15 April, hammering the ball past former teammate Carlo Cudicini"
• His international career lacks context. Drogba is part of a group of players viewed as the most talented the Ivory Coast has ever had, but that have generally been viewed as underachievers (e.g. no African Nations win, failing to make it past the groups in the World Cup). The article conveys no sense of this.
• There is no description of what type of player Drogba is, his strengths and weaknesses. Football biographies aiming for FA typically have a Playing style section. Oldelpaso (talk) 22:12, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

@Oldelpaso: Noted. I've listed it for peer review and improved the article on a few of the areas you pointed out. Davykamanzi → talk • contribs • alter ego 16:33, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Closing comment -- I agree this article is under-prepared for FAC and would be better off at PR initially, so will archive it shortly. Aside from issues noted above, several paragraphs are lacking citations, and that would need to be rectified before re-nominating at FAC. BTW, an article shouldn't be at FAC and PR simultaneously, so we'd need to close this in any case if you've listed at the latter. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 14:54, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

• Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose (talk) 14:55, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

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