Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sourav Ganguly/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 10:04, 9 September 2013 (UTC) [1].

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Sourav Ganguly

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• Featured article candidates/Sourav Ganguly/archive1

Nominator(s): DebTheGangulian (talk) 07:13, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because this article covers the criteria for FA and a good article.The person is also one of the most influential personality in cricket history.I have also contributed significantly to it.DebTheGangulian (talk) 07:17, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Suggest withdrawal This not yet FA-worthy material. There are several problems with the article, such as:

• 3 [citation needed] tags.
• Poor prose, MoS inconsistencies and grammatical mistakes:

• "he currently hosts a Bengali show Dadagiri Unlimited"
• "Ganguly's place in the team was assured after successful performances in series against Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Australia, winning the Man of the Match awards"
• "academics came in-between his love for sports"
• "The magic of Indian cricket: cricket and society in India": book titles should be italicised per WP:MOS.

• Sachin Tendulkar is linked thrice in the lead and five more times in Records.
• Lack of comprehensiveness and flow of information:

• "Ganguly's father Chandidas Ganguly died at the age of 73": extremely abrupt 41-year jump in the prose.
• Surely there's more about his childhood and family than the short section here? Also "Born into an affluent Brahmin family" is not repeated in the body (per WP:LEAD).
• "delivering messages, were beneath his social status.[16] Ganguly purportedly refused to do such tasks as he considered it beneath his social status": why the repetition?

• What does " ICC sport critic" mean?
• WP:COPYVIO: "With Sourav as the host, can cricket be far behind? Thus, the quiz rounds are named Selection, Toss, Power Play, Cover Drive, Googly, Slog Over and Bapi Bari Jaa (Ganguly's war cry after hitting a six)". Probably more as well.

Tragically, this article seems to have been in pretty decent shape when it got GA status. It has deteriorated significantly since then.—indopug (talk) 15:11, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Note: I've reverted a huge amount of content copied wholesale from other websites by the nominator,—indopug (talk) 02:45, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

• Suggest closure – If we have the nominator inserting blatant plagiarism into the article, I don't see how this can possible continue. What other damage has been done to the article that we don't know about? Giants2008 (Talk) 00:06, 9 September 2013 (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) 05:36, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

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