Talk:Hartlepool United F.C./GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: MrLinkinPark333 (talk · contribs) 01:57, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello. I'll be reviewing this article for Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/GAN Backlog Drives/January 2022 --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 01:57, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Main issues

• The History sections has a lot of fully uncited paragraphs. With these subsections alone, 14 paragraphs are fully uncited. Specifically:
  • 1945–82: Post-war (3rd paragraph, 5th - 14th paragraphs, 16th - 17th paragraphs)
  • 1989–97: The Gibson and Hornsey years (4th paragraph)
• Most of the Sponsorship section is uncited, which includes the introductory paragraph and the table.
• The Cup Honours is fully uncited.
  • Verification issue with 1956-57 Third Division runnerup and 2020-21 National League win in the playoffs. See here
• Given source in Club Records does not mention any of those records.
• Player & Team Record is fully uncited
• Player of the Year fully uncited.
• Team of the Year is mostly uncited.

Other issues

• There are paragraphs in the History section that have some uncited sentences but have citations. These are at:
  • 1989–97: The Gibson and Hornsey years (1st paragraph, 3rd paragraph, 5th paragraph. Total: 3 sentences)
  • 1997–2012: Success under IOR (6th paragraph, 8th paragraph Total: 2 sentences)
• Uncited sentence at the first paragraph of Famous fans
• Uncited sentence at Hartlepool United Ladies
• Inaccuracies in Player & Team Records. Hartlepool says Joshie Fletcher has the most goals with 111 and Mick Tait is the oldest player at the age of 40 years and 173 days. This contradicts with the given information in the Wikipedia section that says Wigham and Johnson have the most goals while Konstantopoulos was the oldest player. It's possible that the Hartepool United page is not 100% up to date. If that's the case, citations are needed to show which one is right (Wikipedia / Hartepool)

Overall

With the huge amount of uncited paragraphs in the history section alone, I will have to quickfail this nomination per WP:GAFAIL as "it is a long way from meeting any one of the six good article criteria". Specifically, this article is a long way from passing Criteria #2 Verifiable with no original research. Apart from the huge amount of uncited paragraphs, I've found parts that are original research (Cup Honours, Club Records, possibly Player & Team Records). If the verification issues were addressed, especially the uncited content in the history section, this article would be much improved and closer to passing the verification criteria for GAN. While I have not performed an in-depth review, I am very concerned of the amount of uncited content that is currently in this article. I hope you are encouraged to work through the verification issues to help improve this article. Please take a look at Wikipedia:Good article criteria to see which criteria GAN reviewers are looking for in an article. You are always free to take a look through this article and address any other issues per the GAN criteria before resubmitting this article. Thank you for submitting this article to GAN :) --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:37, 10 January 2022 (UTC)