The article was archived by Ian Rose via FACBot ( talk) 25 May 2020 [1].
The most recent race, which has had a a fair few contributors. I helped get it to a respectable state for ITN last July and soon after readied it for GAR, which it passed last week. My other Tour FAs are 2012 (17 January 2017) and 1962 (4 March 2019). Bald Boris 19:36, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
starting on 6 July in Brussels, Belgium, and concluding on 28 July with the Champs-Élysées stage in Paris.Inconsistent locations named (stages vs. cities, and the country given for Brussels but not Paris).
honour of the 50th anniversary of the first Tour de France win of Eddy Merckx.Mention that Merckx is Belgian for those unfamiliar.
the peloton (main group).The wikilink might be sufficient, but this might just be me.
all of its eighteen UCI WorldTeams were entitled, and obliged,should be "18" per the MoS.
He then started the Tour de Suisse, but a crash on half-way through the nine-stage race saw him abandon and require recovery time. This put in doubt his ability to perform at the Tour.This could be combined; the latter sentence should at least be rewritten.
The entire route was unveiled on 25 October 2018, which the race director Christian Prudhomme described as "the highest Tour in history."→
The entire route, which the race director Christian Prudhomme described as "the highest Tour in history", was unveiled on 25 October 2018.Or something to that effect; I'm not a fan of deliberately introducing more commas, but I think the relative clause should be closer to the antecedent.
Four main individual classifications were contested in the 2019 Tour de France, as well as a team competition.→
Four main individual classifications and a team competition were contested in the race.
also holding the lead of the team and nation ranking respectively.[109][110] [108]There's an unwarranted space before the last ref, which is also out of order.
Otherwise this looks good and I'm inclined to support. I intend to take WikiCup points from this review. – John M Wolfson ( talk • contribs) 01:00, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
Despite this, the decision of team leadership between him, Thomas and Egan Bernal was not yet resolved.I assume this means that who would be the race winner within the team was still uncertain, but this can be rewritten to be a lot clearer. Also, It's best practice to cite the sentences about Froome.
In the Tour, he was to share the leadership with Thomas according to the team,[27] although some in the media expected and internal battle between the two.This somewhat contradicts the assumption made above if I'm not mistaken. Please clarify what exactly team leadership is in this context. Also, I believe it should be "an internal battle."
Other riders expected to place high in the general classification, or in some cases being dark horses, wereSeparate the expected-high in classification riders and the dark horses into different sentences.
– John M Wolfson ( talk • contribs) 02:19, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
I'm copyediting as I go; revert anything you don't like.
Despite the latter, the decision of who would become the designated team leader for the Tour between Froome, Thomas and Egan Bernal was not yet resolved.The source given doesn't mention Bernal as a candidate for team leader, and given that we've just mentioned Froome's absence it's hard to see what was hard about the decision. I assume the source predates Froome's crash but the article doesn't make it clear we're going back in time here.
First signs of improving form came with a third-place overall finish at the Tour de Romandie in early May: a nitpick, but the source doesn't say third-place, it just says podium finish, so we need another source. I also think this is a slight SYNTH; the source just says it's his only decent result, but "first signs of improving form" imply a trajectory which the source doesn't talk about. I think this should be more along the lines of the source "the only good result" or something like that.
More this evening or tomorrow. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 12:37, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
In the aforementioned stage, Alaphilippe took the victory: I can't tell which stage this is.
Following chasers Bernal and Buchmann and the last of the few breakaway riders, the overall contenders, led by Thomas, came in 1' 22" behind Yates.Syntax here seems muddled -- the breakaway riders are the overall contenders? Including the chasers?
Bernal and Buchmann following Pinot closely in fifth and sixth respectively: too difficult to parse -- took me a second to realize that Pinot was fourth and you just skipped saying so. How about just "with Pinot, Bernal and Buchmann not far behind"? The reader can figure out the positions easily.
leading by over a minute and a half at the summit, which he held on the descent to the finish: needs rephrasing -- he didn't hold onto the summit. How about "and by the summit had built a lead of over a minute and a half, which..."?
That's everything. A clean article; once these minor issues are fixed I expect to support. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 16:33, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
Support. The only issue left is the struck numbers in the table; I think moving them to a footnote is the right answer, having given up on finding a better way to do it, but that's not going to hold up my support. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 11:11, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
Repeating myself from the concurrent TdF nom but again this has been open two months and seems to have stalled despite its presence in the urgents list for over two weeks, so again time to archive. Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 10:28, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
The article was archived by Ian Rose via FACBot ( talk) 25 May 2020 [1].
The most recent race, which has had a a fair few contributors. I helped get it to a respectable state for ITN last July and soon after readied it for GAR, which it passed last week. My other Tour FAs are 2012 (17 January 2017) and 1962 (4 March 2019). Bald Boris 19:36, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
starting on 6 July in Brussels, Belgium, and concluding on 28 July with the Champs-Élysées stage in Paris.Inconsistent locations named (stages vs. cities, and the country given for Brussels but not Paris).
honour of the 50th anniversary of the first Tour de France win of Eddy Merckx.Mention that Merckx is Belgian for those unfamiliar.
the peloton (main group).The wikilink might be sufficient, but this might just be me.
all of its eighteen UCI WorldTeams were entitled, and obliged,should be "18" per the MoS.
He then started the Tour de Suisse, but a crash on half-way through the nine-stage race saw him abandon and require recovery time. This put in doubt his ability to perform at the Tour.This could be combined; the latter sentence should at least be rewritten.
The entire route was unveiled on 25 October 2018, which the race director Christian Prudhomme described as "the highest Tour in history."→
The entire route, which the race director Christian Prudhomme described as "the highest Tour in history", was unveiled on 25 October 2018.Or something to that effect; I'm not a fan of deliberately introducing more commas, but I think the relative clause should be closer to the antecedent.
Four main individual classifications were contested in the 2019 Tour de France, as well as a team competition.→
Four main individual classifications and a team competition were contested in the race.
also holding the lead of the team and nation ranking respectively.[109][110] [108]There's an unwarranted space before the last ref, which is also out of order.
Otherwise this looks good and I'm inclined to support. I intend to take WikiCup points from this review. – John M Wolfson ( talk • contribs) 01:00, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
Despite this, the decision of team leadership between him, Thomas and Egan Bernal was not yet resolved.I assume this means that who would be the race winner within the team was still uncertain, but this can be rewritten to be a lot clearer. Also, It's best practice to cite the sentences about Froome.
In the Tour, he was to share the leadership with Thomas according to the team,[27] although some in the media expected and internal battle between the two.This somewhat contradicts the assumption made above if I'm not mistaken. Please clarify what exactly team leadership is in this context. Also, I believe it should be "an internal battle."
Other riders expected to place high in the general classification, or in some cases being dark horses, wereSeparate the expected-high in classification riders and the dark horses into different sentences.
– John M Wolfson ( talk • contribs) 02:19, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
I'm copyediting as I go; revert anything you don't like.
Despite the latter, the decision of who would become the designated team leader for the Tour between Froome, Thomas and Egan Bernal was not yet resolved.The source given doesn't mention Bernal as a candidate for team leader, and given that we've just mentioned Froome's absence it's hard to see what was hard about the decision. I assume the source predates Froome's crash but the article doesn't make it clear we're going back in time here.
First signs of improving form came with a third-place overall finish at the Tour de Romandie in early May: a nitpick, but the source doesn't say third-place, it just says podium finish, so we need another source. I also think this is a slight SYNTH; the source just says it's his only decent result, but "first signs of improving form" imply a trajectory which the source doesn't talk about. I think this should be more along the lines of the source "the only good result" or something like that.
More this evening or tomorrow. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 12:37, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
In the aforementioned stage, Alaphilippe took the victory: I can't tell which stage this is.
Following chasers Bernal and Buchmann and the last of the few breakaway riders, the overall contenders, led by Thomas, came in 1' 22" behind Yates.Syntax here seems muddled -- the breakaway riders are the overall contenders? Including the chasers?
Bernal and Buchmann following Pinot closely in fifth and sixth respectively: too difficult to parse -- took me a second to realize that Pinot was fourth and you just skipped saying so. How about just "with Pinot, Bernal and Buchmann not far behind"? The reader can figure out the positions easily.
leading by over a minute and a half at the summit, which he held on the descent to the finish: needs rephrasing -- he didn't hold onto the summit. How about "and by the summit had built a lead of over a minute and a half, which..."?
That's everything. A clean article; once these minor issues are fixed I expect to support. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 16:33, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
Support. The only issue left is the struck numbers in the table; I think moving them to a footnote is the right answer, having given up on finding a better way to do it, but that's not going to hold up my support. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 11:11, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
Repeating myself from the concurrent TdF nom but again this has been open two months and seems to have stalled despite its presence in the urgents list for over two weeks, so again time to archive. Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 10:28, 25 May 2020 (UTC)