Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Review/Paul Morphy

Formerly assessed as A-Class by User:Ioannes Pragensis, but downgraded to B-Class by User:Triviaa. youngvalter 01:24, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Object (especially the lack of in text references). Here is what peerreviewer had to say: (plus one comment from myself). The following suggestions were generated by a semi-automatic javascript program, and might not be applicable for the article in question.

• 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.^[?]
• If this article is about a person, please add {{persondata|PLEASE SEE [[WP:PDATA]]!}} along with the required parameters to the article - see Wikipedia:Persondata for more information.^[?]
• Per Wikipedia:Context and Wikipedia:Build the web, years with full dates should be linked; for example, link January 15, 2006.^[?]
• There are a few occurrences of weasel words in this article- please observe WP:AWT. Certain phrases should specify exactly who supports, considers, believes, etc., such a view.
  • correctly
  • is considered
  • might be weasel words, and should be provided with proper citations (if they already do, or are not weasel terms, please strike this comment).^[?]
• Watch for redundancies that make the article too wordy instead of being crisp and concise. (You may wish to try Tony1's redundancy exercises.)
  • Vague terms of size often are unnecessary and redundant - “some”, “a variety/number/majority of”, “several”, “a few”, “many”, “any”, and “all”. For example, “All pigs are pink, so we thought of a number of ways to turn them green.”
• As done in WP:FOOTNOTE, footnotes usually are located right after a punctuation mark (as recommended by the CMS, but not mandatory), such that there is no space in between. For example, the sun is larger than the moon [2]. is usually written as the sun is larger than the moon.[2]^[?]
• There is one 'citation needed' template on the page. Should be fixed or otherwise that line has to go.
• Needs more in text references (using footnotes). Voorlandt 07:41, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Oppose for most of Voorlandt's reasons, and specifically some lack on precise references, for example:

• the Note 1 claims sentences like "Most historians consider..." and "Morphy is considered..." which are not referenced.
• the sentence "According to his uncle, Ernest Morphy, no one formally taught Morphy how to play chess" shall be referenced (maybe even the whole paragraph).
• the sentence "By the age of nine, he was considered one of the best players in New Orleans" shall be referenced.
• the sentence "Löwenthal and Anderssen both later remarked that..." should be referenced
• also, some links include redirects, it is better to do direct links
• the list of "Notable chess games" does not give any positionnal game, which seems in conflict with what is told in the section "Morphy's chess play"

Still a very impressive article, that I would state as GA-class. SyG 08:50, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Close the review Given that:

• the minimum three-weeks period for review is over,
• no one has made any comment for the review since 18 August 2007,
• the article has not garnered enough support for A-class, and significant issues have been raised (mostly lack of references),

I shall close this review and upgrade the article as GA-class. SyG 20:11, 12 September 2007 (UTC)