Talk:Death of Richard Swanson

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Review: November 3, 2024. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Death of Richard Swanson appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 August 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Richard Swanson died while trying to dribble a soccer ball from Seattle to São Paulo?

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 22:29, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that police did not think Richard Swanson was dribbling a soccer ball when he died? Source: Tomlinson, Stuart (2013-06-17). "Neskowin man arrested in death of soccer ball dribbler Richard Swanson". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
- ALT1: ... that Richard Swanson died while trying to dribble a soccer ball from Seattle to São Paulo? Source: Barnard, Jeff (2013-05-14). "Seattle man killed while dribbling soccer ball to Brazil". USA Today. Associated Press. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe)
- Comment: Thanks for reviewing!

Created by Bsoyka (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 21 past nominations.

Bsoyka (t • c • g) 13:54, 31 July 2024 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Preference for ALT 1, but looks good. Sohom (talk) 14:50, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA?

@Bsoyka: Hope you're enjoying your move to college! Fun, stressful, exciting, or at least that's how it was for me. Anyways, while you've been doing all that, I've been tripling this article's length, and I think it's just about ready for a GA nomination. Would you like to do that nomination together? If not, I'm happy to handle this myself. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe) 06:50, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Tamzin: Hey!! Apologies for the delayed response; the move was definitely all of those things but I'm glad to be getting settled now. Really appreciate your improvements to the article and excited to see how the GA process goes! Bsoyka (t • c • g) 18:09, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

Passed. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 02:48, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Death of Richard Swanson/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Tamzin (talk · contribs) 21:28, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: WikiOriginal-9 (talk · contribs) 20:47, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

Spot checks:

Ref 1: "Powell, Robert Andrew (June 14, 2013). "Dribbling Man". Grantland. ESPN" -
- I don't see his birth date in that ref.
  - Good catch. Added ref to existing citation [1]
- I don't see where it says "on-and-off girlfriend"? Source said "steady girlfriend"
  - Later Powell goes into more detail: "They'd been off and on since then. ('They'd break up and they would fight but all of us always felt it was obvious they were going to end up together forever,' their mutual friend Kristi Schwesinger told me.) They were 'on' enough for Richard to live with Terry after he sold his condo."
- Everything else cited for ref 1 looks good.

Ref 3: Barnard, Jeff (May 14, 2013). "Seattle man killed while dribbling soccer ball to Brazil". USA Today. Associated Press
- I'm not sure if ref 1 or 3 is citing the "1995 Nissan" but I don't see 1995 in either?
  - Added ref to existing citation [2]
- The article says "a soccer ball which is intended to be indestructible" but the ref just says "durable".
  - Added ref to existing citation [3]
- The article says "Swanson was declared dead at Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital." but ref says "a local hospital"
  - Replaced with ref to existing citation [4]

Ref 4: "Ruark, Jeremy C. (May 14, 2013). "A 10,000 mile adventure, one step at a time". Lincoln City News Guard. Lincoln City, Oregon"
- Everything in ref 4 looks good.

Ref 5 : "Olson, Erik (May 8, 2013). "The soccer walker". The Daily News. Longview, Washington"
- Ref 5 looks good as well.
Ref 9 : "Prince-Wright, Joy (May 13, 2013). "Seattle man's tragic death as he attempted to dribble ball to Brazil for charity"
- Looks good.

Comments:

Add birthplace to infobox.
- Done
Maybe add Category:People from Yakima, Washington, but I realize this article isn't technically about him.
- Created Richard Swanson (soccer enthusiast) and added category there
The portal links at the bottom kind of create a lot of white space on the left side.
- Switched to {{portal bar}}
Reference formatting looks good.
This article reads really good. I couldn't find any prose issues.
- Thanks!
We could probably upload a non-free image of Swanson but I understand if you don't want to do that since the article isn't technically about him.
- I have a personal policy of not uploading fair-use images except for a work being discussed. I have no objection to anyone else doing so if they'd like, though.

Great work on saving this article. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 20:47, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review, @WikiOriginal-9! Please let me know if there's anything else to address. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe) 00:49, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good. Nice work! ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 02:42, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.