Talk:Hobie Landrith/GA2

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Wizardman (talk · contribs) 16:00, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Given the issues the other review had, I'll just review this myself in a few days. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 16:00, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the issues I found through 1952:

"a Class D advanced simon-pure group." not sure what that is.
"and help to get Hank Greenberg into shape after Hank returned from military service." I'd remove to and change Hank to he.
"On February 8, 1949, the Cincinnati Reds signed Michigan State Spartans star catcher Landrith." The article jumps from high school to this sentence. Any info on his college career, or was it so short (which it seems to be), that there was nothing worth mentioning?
No reason for 1948 and 1949 to be linked in this case, since he wasn't in the majors yet.
"At the Reds spring training camp in late March, murmurs started to surface that he was the "hottest thing" in camp." This should either be cited or worked in with the rest of the paragraph better, as the following sentences don't make it seem like he was this at all.
"Landrith again only played in four games," I'd remove only. It's not mentioned in the first season that he played in four games, just here, so that may be worth adding to tie it together.
"with 4 runs batted in" with four.

Some of it's nitpicky, but I've written/read enough baseball stuff to know what to look for pretty well. Once this is fixed I'll continue on. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 16:08, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And here's the rest:

"a 5 RBI day" five RBI. Look through the article and make sure independent single-digit numbers are written out.
"10-9" make sure all scores are using ndashes ( – ).
"He did, however, have one dramatic" dramatic not needed.
"The mark was good enough for 3rd" third; there are many instances of this in the article that need to be fixed.
"Hal later reconsidered,[44]" He later. There are several first names uses in this article that need fixing as well.
"He grounded into only 2 double plays" rm only
"On July 19, Landrith caught for the historical debut game of legendary Dominican Hall of Fame pitcher Juan Marichal." too sportswritery as written. In fact, several spots in the final three paragraphs go too far in that direction.
"1961 saw the addition of two" Starting a sentence with a number is generally discouraged.

I only went up to the Orioles section since said issues, especially the tone, are getting iffier the further I read in. I'll keep it on hold another few days, but if nothing's started I'll have to fail it. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 22:34, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, I really don't have time to do this right now, as I said before the start of the first review. Anyone else is more than welcome to fix these. Otherwise, please just fail it. Sorry you had to go through all this trouble, but WP:BASEBALL showed almost no interest in it last time I asked for help on getting this to GA status, and I have other things away from Wikipedia I need to tend to. I'm also more than a little sick of this site right now thanks to someone completely derailing the project just to make a point. I don't intend to write or fix articles anymore this year or maybe even next year. Agent Vodello^{OK, Let's Party, Darling!} 16:25, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. A shame, since it was almost there, but I've learned the hard way it's not easy to find those to edit. If I end up with more time on my end in the future I may make the changes and try GAN myself, but until then ga status will have to wait. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 15:10, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]