Wikipedia:Featured article review/Chariot racing/archive1

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The article was kept 14:13, 10 April 2008.

[edit] Chariot racing

Notifications at WP Greece, Adam Bishop. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:25, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Brilliant prose promotion, previous FARC, does not meet current citation requirements. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:22, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Comment I agree it needs citations. I'll try to dig through the shelves and add some in. I only have a couple of the ones listed in the sources, but I have a few others that might work too. Ealdgyth | Talk 05:08, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I thought we went through this recently...oh well. This was written years ago, perhaps before Featured Articles even existed. Wikipedia was a different place then; and I was a different person. Now I am no longer a classicist and no longer have access to most of the books I used. I don't have the time or the motivation to fix this article to current standards, and if it was delisted it wouldn't concern me at all. If I can add any citations at all, I will, but not for the whole article. Sorry. Adam Bishop (talk) 08:37, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I certainly don't want to step on your toes, Adam. If you would rather I don't do a sorta-kinda job on the citations (Which is all it would be, since I'm not a classicist either, and my library isn't even remotely oriented towards sports in ancient history), I won't. I can't magically rescue it, as honestly sports and olympic history isn't something I studied much. Ealdgyth | Talk 22:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

No no, go right ahead, you won't be stepping on any toes! Adam Bishop (talk) 01:15, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

If Ealdgyth is really going to work on this, she's gone for two weeks, so it will need a hold. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:40, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I am also working on the article. I think we can save it.--Yannismarou (talk) 16:16, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Now that I'm back and caught up, I can pull the books out again and start in. Haven't even had time to look at it since I got back, honestly. Ealdgyth - Talk 01:14, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I've mined out my books. Just a note, most of the work has been done by User:Yannismarou and some IPs, not by me. Still a few spots needing citations and it probably could use a copyedit. Not much else I can do, honestly. Ealdgyth - Talk 03:16, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

If anybody could provide a citation for the last paragraph of "Olympic Games". Otherwise, I might think about removing it.--Yannismarou (talk) 13:52, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

And the second paragraph of "Byzantine era" as well.--Yannismarou (talk) 13:53, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

This has come a long way. I don't like the comparison to modern sports in the first paragraph. It's tangential. Could that be removed and maybe a couple of other sentences add to fill out the lead? I don't think this will need FARC. Marskell (talk) 10:44, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

I agree about the lead. I'll do my best and I'll ask Ceoil for a "prose polishing" of the whole article.--Yannismarou (talk) 14:21, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

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