Talk:Jake Diekman

Jake Diekman has been listed as one of the Sports and recreation good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. Review: October 5, 2014. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Jake Diekman appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 December 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jake Diekman attended a high school in Nebraska that did not field a baseball team, yet still made the major leagues? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jake Diekman.

This is an informal to-do list for what this article needs to achieve before nominating it for GA status. Go Phightins! 21:05, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• It would be nice if we could find more on his upbringing/early life. What we have is OK, but we could/should find more.
• The professional career section is OK, but particularly the early minor league sections could use some expansion.
• Obviously, we need more information on his 2014 season, but that will come; utilizing information from multiple sources for the 2013 stuff would also be nice.
• We need a personal life section. See
  John Mayberry, Jr.
  for examples.
• Structurally, the article is OK, so if we can work on those things, we should be pretty close to meeting the GA criteria. Another image of higher quality would be nice. Go Phightins! 21:05, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Reviewer: Wizardman (talk · contribs) 23:08, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This one's been waiting for a review long enough, so I'll give it a shot. Wizardman 23:08, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the issues I found:

• "He played two seasons of baseball in college – one at Doane College the other at Cloud County Community College – before" should be a comma after Doane College, but I think it would be better without the dashes. Perhaps "He played two seasons of baseball at Doane College and Cloud County...", since the one each would be implied.
• "before adjusting his mechanics, and" rm comma
• you have "lone bright spots" in quotes in the lead but not the body. for consistency add quotes to when it appears later on.
• Last sentence of early career and first sentence of professional career are essentially the exact same thing. Reword or remove one of them.
• " beginning the season in Triple-A (AAA). " Triple-A is used in the prior paragraph, so the parentheses note should go there and this mention changed to just AAA.
• Perhaps the biggest issue right now is the lack of information on 2014, though it's understandable given that this was nom'd many months ago.
• The journalese writing is mostly averted, but it rears its head a couple times ("He flourished with the adjustment," "struggled mightily") ERAs of over five or under two can do those implications for us. Doesn't have to be completely removed, but at least tone it down.

Everything else (images, refs, etc.) check out. I'll put the article on hold and will pass it when the issues are fixed (after a re-review of the 2014 addition of course). Wizardman 15:08, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How's that, Wizardman? Go Phightins! 19:10, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Gave it another read-through and all the changes look good, so I will pass this article as a GA. Wizardman 21:08, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Boo. I wish he was staying, but in any case: www.nj.com/phillies/index.ssf/2015/07/a_long_strange_day_for_phillies_jake_diekman.html Go Phightins! 12:55, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]