Alex Pettyfer

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Result: Delist. Good advice on rewriting the article can be found below. Articles can be renominated at any time. Geometry guy 22:08, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Firstly this article was promoted a long time ago and there isn't a way of accessing the review. The prose doesn't flow very well as there are many short paragraphs in the career section. A few of the references are also missing information and I've added "citation needed" in some places. Spiderone 12:37, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article meets Criterion 2b requirements for in-line citations. While it is always worthwhile to further improve an article's citations, the Good Article Criteria doesn't require a citation for every statement. Rather, it says that the article should have in-line references for "direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons".
I contend that a statement such as His most recent modelling jobs were ad campaigns for Burberry in 2008 and 2009 does not require an in-line citation to meet GA criterion because it isn't a controversial statement, counter-intuitive, an opinion etc. Majoreditor (talk) 13:35, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I agree in general, although it should be possible for the reader to find essentially all of the article's material in the sources used (per 2a), be it cited inline or not. In this particular example "most recent" is problematic: without a source this is (admittedly extremely minor) OR, but also it will soon be out of date, so a cite would help not only with 2b, but also with 1a and 2c. Alternatively, the sentence could be rephrased. Geometry guy 20:30, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hmmm. "Most recent" is a strong phrase to use; I have changed it to "Recent". Majoreditor (talk) 21:04, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]