The article was not promoted 16:28, 18 November 2007.
I'm nominating this article (self-nomination) for featured article because I feel it fulfills all the FA criteria, and as an article, represents some of Wikipedia's best work, particularly within the sub-field of Australian Rules Football Articles Boomtish 05:53, 11 November 2007 (UTC) reply
Your concern regarding the use of the images is noted. Although, I do slightly disagree. Out of the 3 images used in the article, one is used for the player info box, another used to summarise his debut year to date (I feel, particularly the successful nature of it), and another accompanies his 'honours' sub-section. Thanks.
Oppose Apart from the prose issue, the article is seriously padded out with repeated information. Although he is a promising player, he has only one season of league football behind him, which means there’s not a lot to write about. The infobox is an issue:
Achievements are stuff like B&F, Brownlows, leading goalkicker, club captain, Vic rep, All-Australian, Hall of Fame. His achievements are premiership player & rising star winner. The article is also cluttered with too many templates at the bottom. There is a big factual mistake repeated many times, ie. that he is the youngest ever VFL-AFL premiership player ever. Many have achieved this at a younger age; it is believed (because of scant records in the early days) that Murray Weideman was the youngest, playing in Collingwood’s 1953 flag. You should've read you own ref for this; it says Selwood was the youngest since Andrew Eccles at Adelaide in 1998. Not really notable.
In short, the article needs to be chopped down by anything up to 50%, and the “fanzine” style of prose rewritten. The statistics section makes no sense; they are two tables saying the same thing, then giving career averages when he has played only one season. The honours section is the infobox rehashed. The personal life section repeats the section from the early days. Phanto282 ( talk) 08:39, 18 November 2007 (UTC) reply
The article was not promoted 16:28, 18 November 2007.
I'm nominating this article (self-nomination) for featured article because I feel it fulfills all the FA criteria, and as an article, represents some of Wikipedia's best work, particularly within the sub-field of Australian Rules Football Articles Boomtish 05:53, 11 November 2007 (UTC) reply
Your concern regarding the use of the images is noted. Although, I do slightly disagree. Out of the 3 images used in the article, one is used for the player info box, another used to summarise his debut year to date (I feel, particularly the successful nature of it), and another accompanies his 'honours' sub-section. Thanks.
Oppose Apart from the prose issue, the article is seriously padded out with repeated information. Although he is a promising player, he has only one season of league football behind him, which means there’s not a lot to write about. The infobox is an issue:
Achievements are stuff like B&F, Brownlows, leading goalkicker, club captain, Vic rep, All-Australian, Hall of Fame. His achievements are premiership player & rising star winner. The article is also cluttered with too many templates at the bottom. There is a big factual mistake repeated many times, ie. that he is the youngest ever VFL-AFL premiership player ever. Many have achieved this at a younger age; it is believed (because of scant records in the early days) that Murray Weideman was the youngest, playing in Collingwood’s 1953 flag. You should've read you own ref for this; it says Selwood was the youngest since Andrew Eccles at Adelaide in 1998. Not really notable.
In short, the article needs to be chopped down by anything up to 50%, and the “fanzine” style of prose rewritten. The statistics section makes no sense; they are two tables saying the same thing, then giving career averages when he has played only one season. The honours section is the infobox rehashed. The personal life section repeats the section from the early days. Phanto282 ( talk) 08:39, 18 November 2007 (UTC) reply