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Help me out here. I don't understand why Rob Pelinka is in Wikipedia. What direct impact has he had? How is he influential-- that to me is the chief criterion for getting into Wikipedia. He seems like a super-hard working guy... but so are a lot of others who are not included in Wikipedia. I'm all for communities on the web and sharing info, but this doesn't seem right. —Preceding
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At this time, I am going to fail this, because I feel that this article needs a lot of work yet to be a GA.
Citation #5 is blank.
Kobe Bryant section has a fact tag on it.
Education and Honors should be converted into prose.
By that same token, some facts are both pointed out and discussed twice, plus with the way it's written the lead seems like the high school and college paragraph rather then a lead.
Can the Maggette and Gordon sections be expanded? If not try to make it so that there's not a bunch of two sentence paragraphs.
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Lead
"As a basketball player he is former high school All-American who as a junior led Lake Forest High School to its first conference championship and as a senior made all 42 of his free throws in a four game high school basketball tournament." Lots going on in this sentence. It certainly needs some commas but might be best splitting into at least two sentences.
"He is a former high school All-American basketball player from Lake Bluff, Illinois (suburban Chicago) and son of a high school basketball coach." I don't like the start. It jumps straight in. Do you have any more info before High School. At the very least it should start "Pelinka is a..."
You are looking at the results of all 261 his name appeared in newspaper articles in the state of Illinois. There is nothing before his junior year when he became a starter on the basketball team. All articles that really feature him talk about his senior season for the most part untill they start talking about his professional career.--
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"As a senior, he was a preseason selection by the Chicago Sun-Times as one of the top fifty Chicago metropolitan area high school basketball players and top five North Suburban players." Does this refer to Pelinka or Douglass?
"This came following the team's first loss of the season, which came against Division II University of Alaska-Anchorage after an 11–0 start," The verb is "came" both times - I'd change one.
I'd change the name of this section to signify his career as an agent, maybe even just "Agent career". At first thought, I thought it was as a professional basketball player.
The section is properly titled. You are reading into the proper title incorrectly. That section describes his professional career starting as a regular lawyer, then sports lawyer, then sports agent, then sport agency owner.--
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"The current players represented by Pelinka are (alphabetically) Carlos Boozer, Kobe Bryant, Keyon Dooling, Derek Fisher, Channing Frye, Eric Gordon, Andre Iguodala, Chris Kaman, Corey Maggette, Morris Peterson, Gerald Wallace, and Julian Wright." This seems to be recentist info to me.
In terms of describing who he is, this is almost the most important set of information. We say he started his own firm. We should list his clients. Basically, he earns 5% or so of whoever his players are. We should know who he represents and how much they are paid to understand his company.--
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"Pelinka is now President and CEO of The Landmark Sports Agency, LLC." I'm unsure how this info is specific to Carlos Boozer.
SFX did not want to retain a client who would reneg on a handshake. In order to get Boozer back Pelinka had to start his own firm. Do you want me to go into further detail in the article?--
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"Recently" I'd change this word, otherwise it can become dated too soon.
"In the four-game December 1987 Elgin tournament, where he was named tournament MVP," tournament twice, change the second clause to "in which he was named MVP", "during which ..." something like that.
"During his redshirt junior year, he was joined at Michigan by five freshmen (Webber, Howard, Rose, King and Jackson) who became known as the Fab Five." This is mentioned above.
"Rob Pelinka was involved in a complex negotiation which led to both SFX resigning as the agency for Carlos Boozer and to Pelinka briefly resigning as his agent." I still don't like this sentence particularly the use of re-signing or resigning. Is this "signing again" or "handing in notice?"
It is giving notice (without the hyphen as written).
"2008 restricted free agent Vujačić switched agents to Pelinka in July 2008." I don't understand what this means, and secondly don't like a sentence starting with 2008.
It needs at least one image of Pelinka himself but a couple more would be better, especially to break up the text
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
Great work, and hopefully some decent improvement since the start of the GA process. The text is now probably fairly close to FA standard. Obviously the article needs a few images, but I would suggest a peer review, if you were thinking of push it towards FAC. All the best with future improvements.
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At this point, he is notable as the Lakers' GM and perhaps his work as an agent. The odd thing about this article is it focuses on the less notable things. It makes sense to talk about his playing career, but briefly. He was a solid, but unspectacular college player. And of course, now with the Magic Johnson feud, this page may get ugly for awhile (5-20-19).
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