Hey,
I'm trying to get http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball to good article status and hopefully to featured article status. The discussion is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Netball/GA1
The literature about netball when you start getting into media representation basically follows similar themes: Because this is a women's sport, it doesn't get media coverage. Because it is a non-Olympic sport, it gets ignored in a wider sporting history. Because it is a women's sport, it doesn't have the documented history. It is a women's sport and should be celebrated as such, not being forced to conform to male models.
I'm having issues with the Good Article review. I've never done this before and I'm feeling a bit frustrated. I can't figure out if I frustrated because:
- I think I'm right and he's completely wrong; OR
- the reviewer is not communicating clearly; OR
- the reviewer is treating this sport by standards that would be applied
to men's sport that shouldn't be applied to women's sport; OR
- I've never gone through this before and my expectations are incorrect.
Does anyone have any insight into this situation? Or can anyone provide assistance in helping edit the article to help get it through the GA process? I feel like I keep taking information out of the article and taking information out and I'm not certain why we're constantly removing information from the article or how to get information that no matter how much searching I can't find.
Sincerely, Laura Hale
Good article review would be a hassle for anyone. It can bring you up against Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources in a nasty way. Strict application of reliability guidelines can result in being unable to maintain a decent article, let alone a featured article. The same sort of thing can happen if you subject the article on your home town to the process; most of the interesting information has not been published and if everything is not perfectly sourced you would be left with nothing but census statistics and GPS coordinates.
You're running into an underlying policy problem which should probably be addressed better than it is. However, as in the case of a small town I would turn to local papers or governments, there might be some netball newsletters, or a blog or mailing list which arguable could be considered a reliable source for this subject.
Break a leg,
Fred