Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Anthony Anderson (basketball)/archive1

Anthony Anderson (basketball)

Featured article candidates/Anthony Anderson (basketball)/archive1

Nominator(s): TempleM (talk) 23:54, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about a professional basketball player who has spent most of his career with the Saint John Mill Rats or their previous incarnation. He finished his time in college with UMass as its second-best three-point shooter of all-time. As a pro, he has been an illustrious figure in minor league basketball in North America, winning MVP in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL). He is the NBL Canada's all-time leading scorer as well. I've put in plenty of work into this article over the past couple months, and it was recently promoted to GA. I believe that this article could definitely qualify for being a featured article, perhaps with a couple fixes here and there. Feel free to leave your comments and post whether you feel like this article can pass as an FA. TempleM (talk) 23:54, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Driveby comment from Iridescent

You talk about "London Capital Paws" and "The Paws" throughout, but the defunct basketball team was called London Capital; "P.A.W.S." was the name of their sponsor. I tried to check the cited reference to see if this error was derived from an error in the reference, but it's a dead link. ‑ Iridescent 00:12, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Iridescent: I believe that you are correct about the team name. Will I have to remove all of the information derived from the deleted article, because I can't find the same info anywhere else? TempleM (talk) 00:45, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You would have to remove the information if the article cannot verify anything. I tried looking for an Internet Archive version of the article you could add to the cite, but had no luck. One option you could consider is the Resource Exchange. The editors there have access to a wide range of paywalled newspaper articles and the like; perhaps one of them has access to the Daily Item. If so, they could provide you with a copy of the article, or at least confirm that it exists with a page number and date, which the source reviewer(s) will likely want to see. My old college's library only had the Pennsylvania Daily Item, unfortunately. Giants2008 (Talk) 01:55, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator posts to user talk pages

Nominator has posted to ten (10) user talk pages. Not sure if any of them were previously involved with prior review of this article, but wanted to note this here. I notify prior users only if they were involved in prior stages of review of an article, like peer review. Not sure if that's what's going on here, or not? — Cirt (talk) 01:21, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I notified users that actively contribute to basketball-related articles and users that have previously reviewed FA candidates. I was not sure if this was against the rules, but let me know if it is. TempleM (talk) 11:15, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]