The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by Ian Rose via FACBot ( talk) 31 December 2020 [1].

Steven Gerrard

Nominator(s): REDMAN 2019 ( talk) 17:49, 10 December 2020 (UTC) reply

Steven Gerrard is a major footballer and quite possible the best Liverpool player of the 21st century. I have already brought this to GA status and feel that it could pass FA criteria to. I am open to suggestions of improvement to meet the criteria. REDMAN 2019 ( talk) 17:49, 10 December 2020 (UTC) reply

I don't own the books in refs 1 and 5, but apart from that I have access to all the sources. Hope that won't be a problem for any reviewers. Cheers! REDMAN 2019 ( talk) 15:28, 28 December 2020 (UTC) reply

REDMAN, you have limited contributions to this article; please see the WP:FAC instructions. Did you seek clearance from @ Saintandy7 and Mattythewhite: before initiating this FAC? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 23:32, 17 December 2020 (UTC) reply

Drive-by-comments

• After reading the lead section, I think it could do with some further refinement. Perhaps make it more neutral (for instance, there's four uses of the word "greatest").
• The sentence, "In 2009, Zinedine Zidane and Pelé said that they considered Gerrard to be the best footballer in the world.", doesn't need to be in the lead either.
• I couldn't find the source to support this in the article: "Chosen by The Daily Telegraph as Liverpool's greatest ever player"
• You mention the The Gerrard Final in the lead, but it's not in the rest of the article
• The sentence about retirement could be integrated, eg. "After retiring from from international football in 2014, Gerrard became a coach.."

Thanks, LM150 14:25, 12 December 2020 (UTC) reply

Done all of the above.

Image review

• There is some sandwiching in the Style of play section

Done

• Suggest adding alt text

Any specific images, or just all of them? REDMAN 2019 ( talk) 19:06, 17 December 2020 (UTC) reply

All. Nikkimaria ( talk) 21:15, 17 December 2020 (UTC) reply

Done. REDMAN 2019 ( talk) 14:45, 18 December 2020 (UTC) reply

• Don't use fixed px size. Nikkimaria ( talk) 20:59, 12 December 2020 (UTC) reply

Done, except for two instances where it is necessary. REDMAN 2019 ( talk) 19:04, 17 December 2020 (UTC) reply

It isn't necessary in those cases - you can use |upright= instead. Nikkimaria ( talk) 21:15, 17 December 2020 (UTC) reply

Done. REDMAN 2019 ( talk) 14:14, 18 December 2020 (UTC) reply

@ LM150 and Nikkimaria: Thanks for your comments. I have addressed them or replied. Any further comments or corrections would be welcome. (Sorry for my delay in answering, I have had a busy week.) REDMAN 2019 ( talk) 19:08, 17 December 2020 (UTC) reply

Please read the FAC instructions and remove the “Done” templates; they cause a template limits problem that affects the entire page, as well as the FAC archives. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 21:51, 17 December 2020 (UTC) reply

Ok, thanks for the tip. REDMAN 2019 ( talk) 14:12, 18 December 2020 (UTC) reply

Coord note

Hi, with little commentary after three weeks, and none in the past ten days, I don't think this nom is going anywhere fast so I'll be archiving it shortly. Given that lack of commentary I'm prepared to waive the usual two weeks before a re-nom if you so choose to do that but per FAC instructions I'd recommend trying Peer Review first. Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 05:02, 31 December 2020 (UTC) reply

• Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{ featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose ( talk) 05:03, 31 December 2020 (UTC) reply

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