Luis Castillo (baseball)

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Result: Delist per consensus below. Geometry guy 21:56, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My knowledge of baseball is limited at best but the fact that it seems to rely on one source for the majority of the article makes it a bit unreliable. Also:

• The prose doesn't flow well because of the constant short sections.
• The personal life section is a lot smaller than some other baseball GAs
• Some sections are unsourced or not adequately sourced.
• The lead needs expanding a bit.
• The reviewer admitted that "I am not 100% confident this would survive a Reassessment"

I put this in the "Articles needing review and possible reassessment" section but no action was taken so I've decided to request a community reassessment. - Spiderone (talk) 16:37, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Comments. When one source is predominant, the question to ask is how reliable is it. In this case mlb.com states that it is the official website of major league baseball. Is that good enough? I agree that the lead does not adequately summarize the article and the multiple sections are stubby, bordering on proseline. There are certainly missing sources/citations: for instance the "Awards" and "Achievements" require citations. Geometry guy 21:46, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • You also have to compare it to other baseball GAs such as Michael Barrett (baseball) and Rickey Henderson. The differences are immediately obvious. The sources are also more varied. Spiderone (talk) 08:26, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delist. The article is a nice start and certainly could be a GA with work, but as it is I don't think it works. Here are some issues on top of what Spiderone noted:
  • No pre-draft info. I'm sure he played high school baseball somewhere and had an upbringing of some sort.
  • No real reason to make each season its own section, especially if it's going to be only 1-2 sentences. (which they should be minimum one good-sized paragraph each since he was a starter)
  • I don't like using MLB.com as a source, mainly because if he were traded or abruptly retired, that link is gone. Using a newspaper source or baseball digest would be far more useful.
  • The awards and achievements sections not only just duplicate the infobox, but should be meshed into the prose.

Lastly, 8.2kb of prose is quite short for a 14-year veteran as well - it can easily be doubled. Wizardman 20:08, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delist. For broadness, with such a meagre amount of personal life (where was he born even?), this would be better titles "Baseball career of Luis Castillo". His ceareer would be better presented in larger chunks of prose, making it a better read.YobMod 08:45, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]