Recently, I rewrote the Dirk Nowitzki article from scratch, centering around the biography of this NBA basketball player. Chensiyuan helped me with his copyedits. I want to make it a FA in the future, and hope to find a fertile source of constructive criticism here. —Onomatopoeia (talk) 11:59, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- To be precise I didn't copyedit all that much, just did some minor cleaning up (formatting, refs, wc, etc.) and wikilinked where appropriate. An experienced copyeditor would be appreciated here. Chensiyuan (talk) 15:31, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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- Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Lead. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.[?]
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—Onomatopoeia (talk) 10:03, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- "Regarded as one of the best European players in basketball history". By whom exactly? Cite or this is POV.
- "he stated that "Dirk Nowitzki is the greatest German basketball talent of the last 10, maybe 15 years". Always cite quotes. The same here "Nowitzki said: "I was so frustrated I even contemplated going back to Germany… [the jump from Second Bundesliga to the NBA] was like jumping out of an airplane hoping the parachute would somehow open.""
- "In addition, his best friend Nash became a valuable point guard, and with Finley scoring more than ever, pundits were calling this trio the "Big Three" of the Mavericks." What pundits? Cite.
- I am not sure if the "NBA career statistics" are well-placed there. In most articles, statistics go after the end of the whole main text. But I suppose this is not the strictest rule in the world!
- "Nowitzki was born into an athletic family. Both his mother Helga and his father Jörg-Werner were professional handball players who represented Germany in international games." I read exactly the same sentence in the beginning of the article!
Very nice article, and I liked a lot the prose (although I got a bit tired and bored in "Mark Cuban and the "Big Three" (1999–2004)" reading about one play-off game after the other!), which is something I don't often say about athletes' bios!--Yannismarou (talk) 17:47, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for the feedback, it is appreciated and will be incorporated into the article. —Onomatopoeia (talk) 10:07, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]