Talk:Svetlana Kuznetsova/GA3
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Reviewer: MakeSense64 (talk · contribs) 11:56, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
- Some quick comments:
- The career section appears to be overly long and too detailed. In tennis articles we generally avoid scores in prose per WP:TENSCR: "Just report the round and whether the player won or lost the match, and whom they played."
- I will begin with trimming.--GoPTCN 11:17, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
- The names of other players that appear in the article should be spelled as they are spelled in the English-language sources used for the article. We are not supposed to add diacritics if they do not appear in our sources. E.g. "Vaidisova" is spelled like that in the source, so should be spelled like that in the article. This is according to MOS:FOREIGN.
That would be the first things to fix. MakeSense64 (talk) 11:56, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
- Actually, MOS:FOREIGN is about loanwords. For names, it is almost always better to use the spelling the article title usses on names -- because the article title is supposed to reflect the balance of sources, whereas the one source used in another article might be different in diacritics or transliteration. In this case, since the article is at Nicole Vaidišová, that's what should be used. (You'd note that the name without diacritics would be tagged as an unprintowrthy redirect, meaning that it shouldn't be linked to). Courcelles 20:04, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
- No, MOS:FOREIGN clearly refers to names as well (actually, several examples of names are given in the section). Quoting: "For foreign names, phrases, and words generally, adopt the spellings most commonly used in English-language references for the article, unless those spellings are idiosyncratic or obsolete." (emphasis mine). There are good reasons for doing this. The title of the article only shows one name for the topic (per WP:AT, but that doesn't imply that alternative names and spellings are considered "wrong", it is just that an article can have only one title. MakeSense64 (talk) 12:55, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
- Vaidisova redirects to Nicole Vaidišová. Do you have any other examples?--GoPTCN 11:17, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
- No, MOS:FOREIGN clearly refers to names as well (actually, several examples of names are given in the section). Quoting: "For foreign names, phrases, and words generally, adopt the spellings most commonly used in English-language references for the article, unless those spellings are idiosyncratic or obsolete." (emphasis mine). There are good reasons for doing this. The title of the article only shows one name for the topic (per WP:AT, but that doesn't imply that alternative names and spellings are considered "wrong", it is just that an article can have only one title. MakeSense64 (talk) 12:55, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
MakeSense64 announced a summer break a week ago; a "summer is coming" break at the end of March resulted in a four-week absence. There having been no response to my query about finishing this review, I think it's reasonable to assume that it has been abandoned. With the backlog driving beginning at the end of the week, I'd imagine the best thing to do is end the review and put it back in the queue, which I'm happy to do. Thoughts from the nominator or anyone else? BlueMoonset (talk) 20:45, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
- I don't have a problem with it. Put it back in the queue.--GoPTCN 08:18, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
- Okay. Will do. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:04, 13 June 2012 (UTC)