The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by Ian Rose (talk) 13:22, 27 August 2014 (diff).

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Nominator(s): Toa Nidhiki05 16:06, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As the title suggests, this article is an overview of the health issues that come with playing American football. This article was a collaboration between me and ChrisPond, and just recently passed through a good article review by Wizardman with virtually no issues found. This is a broad overview of the topic - in particular, the article covers injuries (both common and uncommon) that come with playing the sport, the effects these injuries have on athletes post-career, and the measures taken to try and reduce injuries throughout the history of the sport. Standard media sources like newspapers and magazines are used, but many of the sources here are published works that come from reputed scientific/medical journals. In addition to images, there are also several informative tables that are used to demonstrate the statistics of injury in the sport, both internally and in comparison to other sports. In all, I'm confident this meets the featured article criteria. Toa Nidhiki05 16:06, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

• File:2006_Pro_Bowl_tackle.jpg: source links are dead. Nikkimaria (talk) 19:25, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • You can just use the Wayback Machine. I assume you made note because of uncertain copyright?  Noahcs  (Talk) 08:10, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Corrected this issue. Toa Nidhiki05 15:04, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Can you explain how Dummies.com, HealthDay, and SBNation are reliable references?
  • The co-authors of the Dummies article are Howie Long, a prominent football analyst and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and John Czarnecki, the editorial consultant of FOX NFL Sunday and one of the selectors for the Hall of Fame. Even if you don't regard Dummies as reliable, both authors are clearly reliable sources of information on the topic of football.
  • You can see the comprehensive editorial policy of HealthDay here; HealthDay is a syndication partner of the New York Times, with articles reprinted in over 40 print papers. Beyond that, the author of the piece (Lisa Esposito) was the news editor at HealthDay (and was editor at numerous outlets before that) and is currently a reporter for U.S. News & World Report.
  • SB Nation is a prominent internet blog run by Vox Media. The quality of content has been praised by Time Magazine, the editorial board includes five people rated in Forbes' Top Ten Influencers in the Business of Sports". Toa Nidhiki05 17:43, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• There are a few links to check out.
  • All link issues have now been corrected. Toa Nidhiki05 18:02, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Ref 15 should use an dash
  • Done. Toa Nidhiki05

• The football helmet, although a scapegoat for concussions, ... What does this mean?
  • It means that although helmets are often blamed for concussions. Toa Nidhiki05 15:18, 8 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• List of sportspeople who died during their careers would be a good see-also.
  • Great idea! I've added this. Toa Nidhiki05 17:52, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• One area I found to be underrepresented was heat strokes / heat exhaustion in football, it's been covered in the press beyond a passing mention. According to The New York Times: "In a period of less than 20 years, 40 high school football players have died from heat stroke, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the University of North Carolina. The numbers have increased in the past decade, the center found." [1]. It's a 1(b) and 1(c) question for me. These links may be of use too: [2] [3]. Seattle (talk) 17:05, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Closing comment -- I'm afraid this review has stalled so I'll be archiving it shortly. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 13:21, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Closing note: This candidate has been archived, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the ((featured article candidates)) template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose (talk) 13:22, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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