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 archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 10:40, 4 April 2018 [1].

Alex Owumi[edit]

Nominator(s): TempleM (talk) 22:34, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about Nigerian basketball player Alex Owumi, who is best known for being the star player of a team owned by the family of Muammar Gaddafi on the cusp of the Libyan Civil War. He was trapped in his apartment for weeks during the conflict and struggled to keep himself alive. Owumi's story reveals the very best and very worst of being a professional basketball player outside the NBA. This is a very in-depth article on a subject that would interest all readers, not just basketball fans. Since its first nomination, which did not get enough attention, the article has gone through thorough improvements and should be able to pass FAC quite easily. TempleM (talk) 22:34, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from EricEnfermero[edit]

I found this to be a very interesting article. I am relatively inexperienced at FAC, but I thought I would leave you some feedback to try and get this article to the next level. My impression is that it's not quite ready for FA, but it looks like you are making some steady improvements.

Good luck to you as you continue working on this entry! EricEnfermero (Talk) 07:09, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sources comment[edit]

In your use of cite templates, you tend to use the "website=" field rather indiscriminately. This leads to a degree of confusion and inconsistency. For each web-based source you need to give the publisher, not the website address, and you need to use the "publisher =" field. For example, in ref 2, you need "publisher= Team Nigeria Basketball"; ref 10, "publisher= ESPN"; ref 16, "publisher= Georgetown Hoyas", etc. You should not game the system by manually de-italicising the source, as you do in, for example, ref 10; using the publisher field will avoid the need for this. For newspaper sources you seem to be getting it right, using "newspaper=". I suggest you work through and adjust your templates as required. I'll take another look when you advise me that this has been done. At a glance, there doesn't seem much else that will need attention. Brianboulton (talk) 21:37, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • You've addressed some of the issues. However, at a quick glance, I see The Boston Globe unitalicised in ref 1 and italicised in ref 7. Ref 2 still gives the web address as the publisher; the actual publisher is Team Nigeria Basketball, as specifically stated in my note above. Same point in ref 16 - the publisher is Georgetown Hoyas - again you've ignored my comment above. I haven't checked through the whole list, but it seems there are similar glitches needing fixes, and there's a way to go yet. Brianboulton (talk) 23:24, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Brianboulton: Sorry about that. I've gone back and fixed all the issues relating to web addresses and italics. TempleM (talk) 23:58, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • You have dealt with most of my remaining format concerns satisfactorily, though I fixed two or three myself rather than hassling you again. Two remaining minor issues:
  • Why, in the citations referring to Owumi's two fiction works, do you use the Amazon ASIN codes rather than normal publisher details with ISBNs?
  • Your wikilinks on the London Lions go to a disambiguation page
  • I have two concerns over reliability: ref 107 "Let's Go Lions" looks like a fansite, and I'm unsure about ref. 113 "Talkbasket". Why should these two be considered reliable sources per FA standards?
  • A couple of questions for the coordinators: are you happy with the extensive use of the autobiography which one reviewer apparently described as "a magazine article masquerading as a book"? And, is the use of team websites to this extent acceptable? I take no particular position on these issues, but not being a basketball expert I thought I'd mention them.

Brianboulton (talk) 15:44, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • I have removed the information that came from the fansite. TalkBasket, on the other hand, should be a reliable source since it apparently has official ties to EuroLeague. The book codes were actually ISBN, not ASIN, and I've changed it accordingly. TempleM (talk) 21:44, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Could anyone please take another look? TempleM (talk) 22:34, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Coord notes[edit]

Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 10:37, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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