Talk:Delbert Cowsette

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Review: May 5, 2025. (Reviewed version).

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GA Review

Passed. -- Recon rabbit 20:09, 5 May 2025 (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:Delbert Cowsette/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: WikiOriginal-9 (talk · contribs) 12:46, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Reconrabbit (talk · contribs) 18:58, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. This article has been waiting for a review quite some time. I'll try and provide feedback as I can. Let me know if anything objectionable is in these proposed changes and we can discuss them in the context of this review. -- Recon rabbit 18:58, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Prose

He then became the defensive line coach of the Howard Bison in 2024 is awkward just because of the name of the team. Do you prefer it this way? Other sites refer to it as the Howard University football team.
- Added the college names to make it clearer that they are college teams. change "of the Howard Bison" to "for the Howard Bison".
Is there any way to describe what the Premiere Intermediate Football League is? Sources that talk about Cowsette don't go in-depth at all, and searching just brings up Northern Ireland leagues.
- I think it's a youth league according to the source: "As a co-founder of the Premiere Intermediate Football League and the owner of the non-profit youth organization In Between the Lines, he is dedicated to supporting and nurturing young athletes both on and off the field." Clarified as such.
I can't find anything else to scrutinize. Follows general manual of style requirements, as well as the typical layout of American football biographies.

References

Layout: There are some spots that bother me with regards to citation density, where the same source is used twice one after another. Where it's written Cowsette signed with the New Orleans VooDoo of the AFL on March 10, 2008.[16] He was waived on March 13, 2008.[16] for example, the [16] in the middle could be omitted. This is somewhat out of the scope of this review if you don't want to change it.
- Revised some.

Spot checking

25% (Numbering based on this revision:

[1] Y
[3] Y. Could also mention his major in Geography under personal life.
[5] Y
[6] Y
[7] Y also supports transactions that are noted in [15]
[9] Y
[20] Y

Scope

Broad: At the time of this review this appears to be a complete account of the useful parts of the subject's career and personal life. I did find that he is married and has 3 children at this source, but not when he got married. Could be included.
- Added.
Narrow: Every part of the subject's career that has been written about in usable sources is documented here. Some notes above in Prose as to what could be possibly expanded upon.

Stability

Neutrality: Subject is presented without bias, in a very straightforward manner.
Edit warring: No major changes by any editor other than the GA nominator.

Images

Free/Fair use: No images, so no concerns on licensing.
Relevance: Same as above. All images I could find of the subject are clearly copyrighted and can't be used, so lack of illustration makes sense.

Good Article review progress box

Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()

3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()

Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

@Reconrabbit: Addressed everything, I believe. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 20:01, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your response. I had a line initially that included "changes were made", but I couldn't find a single thing that needed copy-editing in my first review and forgot to remove that statement. -- Recon rabbit 20:08, 5 May 2025 (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.